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Geranium lucidum, L. “sf 
Greek Macedonia: neighbourhood of Jera Karu, Harris 443. 
Erodi i ~ Lb. Her. 
Greek Macedonia : Ree eee of Jera Karu, Harris 449. 
Haplophyllum Buxbaumii, Poi 
Gallipoli : Cape since aeidys sea beach. Bright light orange 
yellow flowers, Durham 9 
Pali S Christi, Mill. 
Gallipoli: fairly frequent. Bright yellow inflorescences and 
very attractive light fresh green foliage, much eaten by insect 
life, Durham 10. 
0 » All. 
Greek Macedonia: grown from seed collected near Paprat, on 
the southern slopes of the Krusa Balkan, by J. M. Russell, 1918. 
Flowered at Richmond, Surrey, August 1920. 
Astragalus Durhamii, J'urrill (Leguminosae-Galegeae) ; 
ajubense, Bge., valde affinis sed foliolis saepissime ives. 
vexillo elliptico-ovato latiore differt 
Caules glabri, leviter longitudinaliter costati, teretes. Folia 
caulina usque ad 1°7 dm. longa, glabra vel fere glabra, pinnis 
circiter 30 elliptico-lanceolatis vel oblongo-lanceolatis apice 
obtusis saepe breviter apiculatis basi rotundatis petiolulatis 
petiolulis 1 mm. longis costa in pagina utraque prominente nervis 
lateralibus in pagina superiore impressis in pagina inferiore 
prominentibus ; stipulae lanceolatae, apice attenuatae, usque ad 
2:7 em. longae, interdum pilis albis longis paucis instructae- 
Inflorescentiae axillares, multiflorae, globosae; pedunculi usque 
ad 5°5 cm. longi, pilis albis paucis dispersis praediti; bracteae 
lineari-lanceolatae, apice attenuatae, circiter 1 cm. longae, 
margine longe albo-ciliatae. Calyx longe albo-pilosus, tubo 
9 mm. longo, dentibus lineari-acicularibus usque ad 9 mm. longis 
inter se subaequalibus. Corolla intense lutea, vexillo 2°2 cm. 
longo, lamina late elliptico-ovata apice leviter emarginata 1°5 cm. 
longa 1°2 cm. lata, alis 2:1 em. longis 4 mm. latis, carina 2-1 cm- 
longa 6 mm. lata basi filamentorum tubo distincte adnata. 
Filamenta glabra. Ovarium longe denseque albo-pilosum ; stylus 
inferne pilis albis dispersis instructus 
Gallipoli: fairly distributed. The plant grows about 3 feet 
high and has . handsome, deep yellow flowers and beautiful 
foliage, Durham 1 
The species of asic described above belongs to a small 
group whose known distributional area has not hitherto included 
Europe. The affinity of our plant with the A. ajubensis of Bunge 
is undoubtedly very close. Indeed, a large series of specimens 
might make it advisable to consider them conspecific. At present 
A. ajubensis is known with certainty only from Mt. Ajub near the 
ruins of Persepolis in Southern Persia. The section Alopecias, 
to which our plant belongs, consists of two series, A. Durhamit 
being placed in the Ebracteolati, and in the subseries Megalotrop. 
