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description and figure. One might regard it as a primi- 
tive representative of the Fumariceae, because the 
outermost petal is not at all spurred, and the fruit has a 
curious quadrangular areole at its apex. Korshinsky 
does not give the altitude on the Thibetan Plateau where 
the plant was collected, but it is evidently a considerable 
one. 
17. Platyecapnos, Bernh. in Linnaea, viii. 471 (1833); Willk. & 
, Fl. Hisp. -iii. 885 (1880), which see for further 
synonymy. 
Leaf-bases not persistent at the base 
of the stems ; flowering stems leafy ; 
bracts lanceolate, acuminate - lL. P. spicatus.. 
Leaf bases persistent at the base of the 
stems ; flowering stems leafless or 
nearly so; bracts ovate - - 2. P. saxicola. 
1. P, spicatus, Bernh. 1.c. (type species); Willk. & Lange, l.c. 
P. Echeandiae, Pau, Not. Bot. Fl. Espan. ii. 6 (1889). 
DistrRiButTion.— Mediterranean (up to 1300 m.) from es 
eastwards to Italy, and in North Africa and Canaries 
2. P. saxicola, Willk. in Bot. Zeit. 1848, 367; Willk. & 
Lange, lL.e. 
DIsTRIBUTION.—South Spain: Huescar Province at high 
altitudes (2000-2300 m.) in Sierra Sagra. Morocco: 
Djebel Ghat, Demnat Provin 
I have not seen the olinwing epeses, ¥ which are, perhaps, 
doubtfully distinct from P. spicatus : 
Platycapnos tenuilobus, Pomel Fl. Atlant. 240 (1874) ; 
Algeria; Garrouban, Mazis. 
WP clea no ale grandiflorus, Rowy. in Rev. Sc. Nat. Ser. 
iii. i, 66 (1883); Spain. 
18. Discocapnos, Cham. & Schlecht. in Linnaea, i. 569 (1826) ; 
Harv. in Harv. & Sond. FI. Cap. i. 18 (1860). 
os Mundtii, Cham. & Schlecht. l.c.; Harv. l.c., 
excl. oie Dregei, Harv. ; Harv. Thes. t. 1 10. 
South Arrioa. Cape Division : Hills around Cape Town, 
Mundt & Maire. Platteklip, Pappe! Devils Mt., Hckion 
24! near Rondebosch, A. Bolus 4797! Newlands Woods, 
. & fr., Aug. Wolley Dod 114! ‘ Cape,” Harvey ! 
2. Discocapnos Dregei, Hutchinson, sp. nov.; a D. Mundtii, 
Cham. et Schlecht., foliorum segmentis angustioribus, 
racemis multifloris gracilibus, fructibus minoribus minute 
et parce puberulis elliptico-rotundatis alis angustissimis 
differt. Discocapnos Mundtii, var. Dregei, Harv. l.c. 
Fumaria scandens, Drége, Zwei Pfl. Docum. 125, nomen. 
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