Tap. 8148. 
BRUCKENTHALIA spicunironta. 
Transylvania, Balkan Peninsula, and Northern Asia Minor. 
: Ericacear. Tribe Ericean. 
BruckentTHatia, Reichb. Fl. Germ. Excurs. 413; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. 
vol. ii. p. 591; Drude in Engl. & Prantl, Nat. Pflanzenf. vol. iv. 1, 
p- 62. 
Bruckenthalia spiculifolia, Reichb. l.c. p. 414; species wnica. 
Fruticulus multiramosus, 10-15 cm. altus, ramis ascendentibus gracilibus 
tenuiter pubescentibus. Folia creberrima, quaterna vel sparsa, sub- 
sessilia, linearia, margine arcte replicata, obtusiuscula, apice seta pellu- 
cida imposita, 3-4 mm. longa, 0°5 mm. lata, coriacea, supra sparse setulis 
glanduligeris obsita, subtus ob costam crassiusculam et margines re- 
plicatas bisulcata. lores in racemos terminales densitsculos congesti, 
nutantes; pedicelli minute asperuli, 3 mm. longi. Calyx campanulatus, 
coloratus, glaber, 4-lobus, lobis late triangularibus, vix 1°5 mm. altus. 
Corolla rosea, campanulata, 3 mm. longa, 4-loba, lobis late ovatis obtusis. 
Stamina 8, inelusa; filamenta ima basi inter se et cum corolla connata; 
antherae 1 mm. hand attingentes, apice bilobae, muticae. Discus 
vix ullus. Stylus longe exsertus. Capsula globosa, calycem persisten- 
tem haud superans.—Frica spiculifolia, Salisb. in Trans. Linn. Soe. vol. 
vi. (1802), p. 824; Sibth. Fl. Graeca, tab. 353. HE. Bruckenthalii, Spreng. 
Neue Entd. vol. i. p. 271. Menziesia Bruckenthalii, Baumg. Enum. Stirp. 
Transs. vol. i. p. 333. 
Bruckenthalia spiculifolia was discovered by Sibthorp on 
Keshish Dagh, the so-called Bithynian Olympos, near 
Srussa, in Asia Minor, more than a hundred years ago, 
and described as Erica spiculifolia by Salisbury in 1802. 
Subsequently it was found in the Transylvanian Alps, and 
described by Baumgarten in 1816 as Menziesia Brucken- 
thalit, after Samuel and Michael, Barons von Bruckenthal, 
prominent contemporary Transylvanian noblemen. The 
plant has quite the appearance of a small Erica, but differs 
from that genus in the campanulate calyx and the almost 
complete absence of a disc. Its area covers the greater 
part of the Balkan Peninsula, excepting Greece; extends 
over the Transylvanian Alps, and reaches its northernmost 
point in the Biharia Mountains in Hungary. In Asia 
Minor it has, so far, been found only on Keshish Dagh, 
and on the mountains between Tireboli and Gumush 
Khane, in the vilayet of Trebizond. Bruckenthalia grows 
either socially in extensive heath-like patches, or scattered 
among species of Vaccinium, dwarf juniper, and similar 
Avusust lst, 1907. 
