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Tas. 6047. 
OMPHALODES Luocitza. 
Native of Asia Minor. 
Nat. Ord. Boragine2.—Tribe CynoGLossEsz. 
Genus Ompnatopes, Tourn. ; (DC. Prodr., vol. x. p. 158). 
Ompnatopves Lucilie ; perennis, glaberrima, caulibus e rhizomate plurimis 
decumbentibus, foliis radicalibus longe petiolatis ellipticis oblongis 
ovatisve obtusis acutis v. mucronulatis, superne remote et minute pus- 
tulatis caulinis sessilibus, pedicellis gracilibus folia floralia longe super- 
antibus demum arcuato-recurvis, sepalis ovato-oblongis pedicello multo 
brevioribus, corolla rotata calyce quadruplo ampliore, nuculis margine 
membranaceo integro levi. 
Ompuavopgs Lucilix ; Boiss. Diagn., No. iv. p. 41; Alph. DC. in DC. Prodr., 
vol. x. p. 162; Jaubert and Spach, Ill. Plant. Orient., vol. iv. t. 365. 
This beautiful plant has hitherto been found only in two 
localities, which are very distant from one another, in Asia 
Minor—namely, Mount Sypilus, near Manesis (the ancient 
Magnesia, north-east of Smyrna), where it was discovered by 
Aucher Eloi; and in the Eastern Taurus Mountains of 
Bulgar dagh, in the province of Cilicia (now Itschili), adjoin- 
ing the Gulf of Scanderoon. In both places it inhabits con- 
siderable altitudes, attaining 8000 feet. It is decidedly the 
most beautiful species of the genus, and is well adapted for 
rockwork cultivation, remaining in flower for a considerable 
time in cool weather, and presenting all shades of colour in 
the corolla, from a pale pink-purple to azure. The specimen 
here figured was presented to the Royal Gardens by James 
Atkins, Esq., of Painswick, and which flowered profusely 
for a second time after arrival. The flowers are very much 
larger than either in the native specimen or in the figure 
cited in the fine work of Jaubert and Spach ; and I do not 
find any trace of the serratures of the sepals which are there 
represented, and which are described as cilia on the margins 
of the sepals. 
JULY Ist, 1873. 
