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section as P. major, with the coroha-tiibe exceeding the wing- 

 sepals in length, and the capsule stipitate. It is strange how it 

 has been confounded with P. niccrensis, a plant of a very different 

 habit, with the corolla entirely included, except the tip of the 

 crest, T\ithin the wing-sepals, and the capsule perfectly sessile. 

 Yet this appears to have been done by Eeichenbach, whose 

 t. mcccl., f. 1, m his 'Icones' (P. rosea), is identical with his 

 P. nicaensis, and by Grenier & Godron in their ' Flore de France,' 

 followed by Woods in his ' Tourist's Flora.' Caruel (Nuov. 

 Giorn. Bot. It., i., 21) well points out that Desfontaines' drawing 

 altogether forbids the identification of his plant with either 

 of these species, and states that he has seen Desfontaines' type- 

 specimens in Webb's herbarium, which agree altogether with his 

 drawmg. The true P. rosea appears to be an extremely rare plant, 

 the only certain localities being Desfontaines' in Algeria, and 

 Bourgeau's m the South of Spain. Its most characteristic dis- 

 tinction from P. major, which it resembles in habit and the size of 

 the flower, in the broadly ovate short bracts, which altogether 

 deprive the raceme of any comose character. 



B. Annual. Filaments partially free ; style funnel-shaped ; 

 arillode not ai)X3endiculate. 



13. P. MONSPELiACA, Linu., Sp., ed. ii., 987; DC, Prodr., i. 325; 

 Desf., FL Atl., ii., 129; Keich., PL Grit., i., 27; Ic, 

 xviii., 88; (non Fl. Germ, exsicc, no. 2546); Gr. et 

 God., FL Fr., L, 198; Bert., FL It., viL, 319; WiUk. 

 et Lge., Fl. Hisp., iii., 555; Boiss., Voy. Bot. Esp., ii., 

 82; FL Or., L, 469; Guss., Fl. Sic, ii., 242; Sm. et 

 Sibth., Fl. Grffic, ii., 52; Woods, Tom-. Flor., 62; 

 Car. in Nuov. Giorn. Bot. It., L, 24 (non Willd.) ; Ball 

 in Linn. Journ., 1877, p. 350. P. caule erecto, sim- 

 plice aut basi ramoso ; foliis lineari-lanceolatis, infimis 

 oblongo-lanceolatis ; bracteis lanceolatis, deciduis ; floribus 

 albidis ; sepalis exterioribus linearibus ; alls viridibus, ob- 

 longis, duplo longioribus quam latis, utrinque attenuatis, 

 venis subparallelis non anastomosantibus pr^ditis ; corolla 

 parva, quam alas dimidio breviore ; petalis lateralibus lineari- 

 • bus, quam carinam multo longioribus ; antherarum filamentis 

 liberis, quam anther as duplo longioribus ; stylo infundibuli- 

 formi, lobo antico maximo ; capsula sessili, obcordata, valde 

 insequilaterali, quam alas dimidio breviore ; arillodio mi- 

 nimo, galeato, inappendiculato. 



Syn. p. f/lumacea, Sm. et Sibth., Fl. Gnec, ii., 52 ; DC, Prodr., 

 L, 325 ; P. straminea, Presl, Sic, i., 137 ; Spreng., Syst., iv., 

 2, 265. Tricholopm monspeliaciiH, Spach, Hisl. Nat. des 

 Veg., viL, 116. 



Figs. DC, Ic PL Ear., t. 9 ; Reich., PL Cit., L 57, 58 ; Ic, 

 t. mcccxlv., f. 1; Sibth., Fl. Graec, viL, t. 670; Brot., 

 Phyt. Lus., t. 176; Link, et Hoff., Ic. Fl. Port., t. 55. 



Per regionem Mediterraneam, a Lusitania usque ad Graeciam ; 

 necnon in Afiica boreali, Syriaque, in locis aridis. 



