Tas. 5983. 
LIN ARIA MAROCCANA, 
Native of Marocco. 
Nat. Ord. ScRoPHULARINEX.—Tribe ANTIRRHINER. 
Genus Linarza, Lina. ; (Benth. in DC. Prod. vol. x. p. 265). 
Lryarta (Linariastrum) maroccana ; annua, erecta, ramosa, superne Viscoso- 
pubescens, foliis in surculis verticillatis, caulinis sparsis anguste lineari- 
lanceolatis linearibusve subacutis planis, racemis multifloris, pedicellis 
calycem superantibus, sepalis anguste linearibus obtusis, caleare elongato 
recto corollam late purpuream pedicellumque longe superante, labio 
superiore erecto bipartito, lobis apice rotundatis, inferiore truncato 2-lobo 
lobis parvis rotundatis intermedio minore, palato prominente 2-lobo 
aureo intus villoso, seminibus subcylindraceis transverse rugosis. 
The Spanish peninsula abounds in representatives of this ele- 
gant genus, many of which reappear on the plains and moun- 
tains of Marocco, whilst others are replaced by allied but very 
different species. This remark applies not only to the annual 
Species like the present which chiefly affect the cultivated 
fields, but to the perennial, which affect, some the hedge- 
tows, others rocky river banks, and still others the jofty 
region of the great Atlas, which they ascend to 9000 an 
10,000 feet of elevation. During my excursion to that 
country with Messrs. Maw and Ball, we collected paar 
_ than twenty species of this genus, amongst which the o yec 
of the present plate was conspicuous in one district me its 
abundance and brilliant colour, adorning the cornfie : “ 
profusion in the province of Sectana, which skirts the 
So oe ee ; : ccana belongs to a 
greater Atlas in Lat. 31° N. JZ aly “allied to L. reticulata, 
large section of the enus, and is clos | 
Desf., of Portugal aA N. Marocco. The seeds pone a 
germinated freely and flowered in the Royal Gardens in 
of the present year. 
AuGuUsT Ist, 1872, 
