Taz, 6721. 
RHAMNUS uipanotica. 
Native of Asia Minor and Syria. 
Nat. Ord. Roamnacex.—Tribe RaamMynez. 
Genus Ruamnus, Linn. ; (Benth, et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. i. p. 877.) 
Raamnvus (Eurhamnus) libanotica ; frutex robustus, ramis crassis erectis v. basi 
procumbentibus, foliis breviter petiolatis a basi rotundata subcordatave oblongis 
ovatisve v. fere rotundatis, obtuse acuminatis acutatisve creberrime denticulatis 
demum late brunneis, junioribus utrinque flavido-tomentellis, venis penni- 
formibus utrinque 12-15 validis arcuatis, floribus dioicis parvulis in cymas 
breves puberulas paucifloras dispositis, drupa hirtula calycis limbo (lobis 
caducis) basi cincta, seminibus obtuse trigonis rima hiante per totam longi- 
tudinem percursa, : 
R. libanotica, Boiss, Diagn. Ser. 1, vol. ii. p. 119; Fl. Orient. vol. ii. p. 19. 
_ R. imeretie, Hort., and R. castaneifolia, Hort. 
This is the Oriental representative of the South European 
Alpine Buckthorn, Rhamnus alpinus, a native of the Alps 
from Spain to Gallicia, and of Morocco and Algeria, and I 
am disposed to think a mere variety of that plant; indeed 
Boissier, its author, mentions its close alliance to the western 
Alpine Buckthorn, giving as its diagnostic characters its 
being more pubescent and having the groove of the seed 
(which I haye not seen) carried almost up to the top of 
that organ, instead of commencing below it. A better 
character might be found in the beautifully bronze colour 
of the old leaves, which characterizes the Kew cultivated 
Specimens, but which is probably not constant; for I do 
not remember having remarked it on the wild plant when 
I gathered it on the Lebanon in 1860. Other hardly dis- 
tinguishable forms are R. Sibthorpiana, DC., and h. fallax, 
Boiss., both of the Greek mountains, and R. cornifolia, of 
Kurdistan and Persia. : 
R. libanotica is a native of the Lebanon and Antilebanon, 
in the former of which it attains an elevation of 9000 feet ; 
it also inhabits the mountains of Pamphilia and the Cilician 
NOVEMBER Ist, 1883. 
