e Tas. 7699. 
PHLOMIS tunarirouia. 
Native of Asia Minor. | 
Nat. Ord. Lasiata2.—Tribe StacuyDEz. 
Genus Putomis, Linn. ; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol, ii. p, 1214.) 
Putomis (Dendrophlomides) lwnarifolia; frutex erectus, cano-tomentosus, 
caule ramisque 4-gonis, foliis oblongis ovato-oblongisve obtusis inferiori- 
bus longe petiolatis basi truncatis cuneatis v. cordatis superioribus 
sessilibus. supra viridibus reticulatis subtus cano-virescentibus nervis 
utrinque costes ad 5 ascendentibus supra impressis subtus prominulis, 
nervulis validis reticulatis, capitulo amplo ad 4 poll. diam. depresso 
multifloro foliis 2 deflexis a oblongis suffulto, bracteis parvis 
imbricatis orbicularibus cuspidatis pilosis, calyce fere recto stellatim 
pubescente, lobis 5 brevissimis latis retusis, sinibus cuspide patula 
instructis, corolla 14-poll. longa aurea, galea villosa alte obtuse bicarinata 
apice retusa, labio inferiore bialato alis rotundatis, filamentis infra medium 
pilosis longioribus appendiculatis, nuculis glabris. - 
P. lunarifolia, Sibth. & Sm. Prodr. Fl. Gree. vol. i. p. 414 (excl. hab.). 
Benth. in DO. Prodr, vol. xii. p. 541 (excl. hab.). Unger & Kotschy, 
iss ts Cypern, p. 275. Boiss. Fl. Orient, vol. iv. p. 785 (lunaris- 
Olla). 
P. imbricata, Boiss. in Bourg. Pl. Lye. exsicc. (1860). 
A very handsome Labiate described as shrubby, though 
more probably an undershrub, attaining in its native 
country six feet in height, with flowering branches a foot 
long. It is described by Boissier as a native of Lycia, 
Cilicia, and the Island of Rhodes, but I suspect that the 
latter is a mistake for Cyprus, for the collector’s name 
given for Rhodes is Kotschy (No. 678), and the precise 
habitat Chrysochu ; and there is a specimen of P. lunari- 
folia in the Kew Herbarium with the same number and 
habitat, ticketed as from Cyprus, by Kotschy. The species 
is also included in Unger and Kotschy’s “ Die Insel Cypern” 
(published in 1865), a record overlooked by Boissier. 
The habitat of Peloponnesus, given in Sibthorp and 
Smith’s Prodromus, repeated in DC. Prodr., &c., arose, as 
Boissier points out, from a confusion of the species with 
P. samia, L. 
The Royal Gardens are indebted to E. Whittall, Esq., 
of Smyrna, for seeds of P. lunarifolia, collected in the 
FEBRUARY Ist, 1900, 
