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meque glandulosi pilis albis nisi singulis sparsis brevibus retrorsum 

 falcatis ad angulos prope basum destitutis : rami numerosi rigide 

 ascendentes iterum ramosi, omnes apice copiose floriferi. Folia sub- 

 sessilia, lamina elliptica ad late elliptica Integra vel paucidentata 

 (c. 12 mm. long, et 7 mm. lat., petiol. c. 1 mm.) pilis destitutis sed 

 sicut caules densissime minutissimeque glandulosa, glandvilis magnis 

 sessilibus (qui in C suaveolente et C. patavina conspicui sunt) 

 omnino destitutis, costae pag. inf. eminentes costam marginalem 

 formantes aliquando in dentes inconspicuos acuminatos projicientes 

 sed sa^pius in costam proximam anastomosantes, costa media in 

 acumen procurrente. Folia floralia minus manifosta quam in C.jjata- 

 vina sed magis quam solemniter in C. suaveolente, inflorescentia 

 ergo foliacea. Calices (7 min. long.) eis C. suaveolentis forma per- 

 similes sed constrieta superiore parte longiore, dentibus majoribus sed 

 forma (ratione longi latique) eadem, setoso-ciliatis pungentibus, tubo 

 indumento sicut in foliis, pilis omnino destitutis. Corollae (12 mm. 

 long.) eis C. suaveolentis similes. 



Near Salonica. J. Ramshottom, no. 26, " Amongst oak-scrub, 

 c. 500 m." 



C. epilosa differs from all tbe allied species in the complete 

 absence (except at the very base) of long pilose hairs. Even the 

 veins of the calyx-tube lack them. The extreme density of the 

 minute glandular pubescence throughout the plant occurs in no 

 other allied species. The peculiar rapidity of the whole plant gives 

 it a facies distinct from any of its allies. The internodes, both of the 

 stem and inflorescence, of which there are 4-6 well -developed whorls 

 of flowers, are longer, 12-20 mm. except at the apex, than in C. sua- 

 veolens, making the plant open and not compact. The corolla is 

 pinkish mauve, drying bluish mauve. 



I am unable to see that the teeth of the upper and lower calyx- 

 lips in G. suaveolens are, as Halacsy (Fl. Gra^c. ii. 544, 1902) states, 

 " subsimiles." The three of the upper lip are much broader than 

 those of the lower lip, but being plicately folded, their greater breadth 

 is almost entirely obscvired. G. patavina is founded on Thymus 

 patavinus Jacq. Obs. Bot. iv. p, 7, t. 87 (1771), which from the figure 

 and description is evidently G. adscendens Moench. Further, Jacquin's 

 plant is " Clinopodium perenne, pulegii odore, Majoranaj folio, Pata- 

 vinvun " of Boccone, seeds of which were transmitted to Jacquin by 

 several botanists. In the National Herbarium- are sj^ecimens from 

 Boccone himself, which are evidently G. adscetidens. There would 

 therefore seem to be no cause for confusion in the application of the 

 name. I am unable to distinguish C. hungarica Simonk. from 

 C patavina. 



To jvidge from herbarium specimens, G. patavina and G. suaveolens 

 are either very variable or there are several plants lyhich await dis- 

 crimination. There is, however, no sjjecimen in the National Her- 

 barium or at Kew which matches this plant. 



