FUMABIA CAPEEOLATA OE BllITAIN. 163 



tihus, fructibus subgloboso-compressis obtusis longioribus quam latis 

 laevibus, basi fructus brevi pedicelli apice angustiore, bracteis pedi- 

 cellos floriferos excedentibus /rwc^i/em reflexis paulo brevioribus, race- 

 mis evolutis laxis brevibus paucifloris. 



F. pallidiflora, Jord. in Schultz, Arch. 305 ; Bor. FL du Centre de la Fr. 

 ed. 3. ii. 34. 



F. capreolata, Hamm. Mon, Fum. 24. t. 3 (excl. var. a et ^). 



Sepals soon falKng, usually entire towards the point, as broad as 

 or broader than the cor.-tube. Cor. large, cream-coloured, tipped 

 with red or pink ; tube thick ; lower petal linear, green, boat- 

 shaped, gradually dilated towards the end, its sides inflexed ; 

 lateral petals linear, truncate-apiculate, with a narrow keel. 

 Fruit with a short and rather narrow base which is very nearly as 

 broad as the thickened tip of the pedicel ; edge not regularly 

 rounded, but the whole vertical outline rather quadrangular ; apical 

 pits small and deep. Eruit-stalks usually curved back, but some- 

 times only patent or divaricate. 



The F. capreolata fi. Beichenbachii of Arnott (Eep. Edinb. Bot. 

 Soc. iii. 106) includes this plant and F. Borcei, as I learn from 

 specimens named by Dr. Arnott for Mr. Leighton. 



The fruit of my plant is always longer than broad, and its base 

 has little of the stalk-like character of that of its nearest ally, 

 F. Borcdi, from which also its paler flowers and recurved fruit- 

 stalks seem to distinguish it. 



As the typical F. capreolata (Linn.) is the F. speciosa (Jord.), 

 that name must disappear from our flora. 



I have seen specimens of this plant from Salcombe and Ilfra- 

 combe, Devon ; Watchet, Somerset (Eev. W. W. Newbould) ; 

 Oystermouth near Swansea, Glamorgan ; Caernarvon ; Oswestry, 

 Sliropshire. 



2. F. BoRiEi (Jord.) : sepalis late ovatis dentatis tubi corollae latitudine 

 latioribus eodemque ^ brevioribus, fructibus subgloboso-compressis 

 truncatis latioribus quam longis demum paulisper rugulosis, basi 

 fructus angusta pedicellique apicem haud superante, bracteis ssepe pedi- 

 cellos floriferos paulo excedentibus fructiferis patentibus brevioribus, 

 racemis evolutis laxis brevibus paucifloris. 



F. Borffii, Jord. ! " Cat. Grenob. 1849, 15; " Pugil. 4. Lloyd, FL Quest 

 France,24. Bor. FL Cent. France, ed.3.u.34. Billot, Exsic.No.2209. 



V. capreolata, Curt. FL Lond. ii. 145 (fasc. vi. 47) ; Koch in Sturm, 

 DeutschL FL 62. 13. 



F. cai)reolata ^. Leightonii, Bab. ! Man. ed. 4. 17- 



F. capreolata (second form), height. ! FL Shrop. 345. 



