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Hausskneclit iu Persian Kurdistan as var. nigrovittatus; but his 

 conception of what might be called " typical " Anoplanthus 

 coccineus and in the first place was intended to represent the 

 Caucasian plant was vitiated by the inclusion of material from 

 Western and Southern Asia Minor, which, as will be shown 

 below, belongs to a third and hitherto undescribed species. 

 Finally in 1904, BornniuUer in Bull. Herb. Boissier, 2nd ser. 



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the identity of the Armenian and Caucasian plants, adopting 

 Poiret's combination Phelipaea coccinea, and including under it 

 the whole of the specimens quoted by Boissier. 



Considering the confusion connected with the name coccinea^ 

 it seems to be best to drop it altogether and accept for the two 

 old species the names proposed by Desfontaines and Lambert, 

 that is Phelipaea Tovrnefortii and P. foliata. The third and 

 new species, to which allusion has already been made, was 

 described as var. Boissierl of Anoplanthus Biehersteinii by 

 Reuter in DC. Prod. xi. (1847) p. 42, after its discoverer 

 Boissier, and may now be known as Phelipaea Boissicri. To it 

 belongs very probably a plant described by Boissier as 

 Anoplaiifhvs coccineus var. nigrovittatus. Sec below p. 293. 



Definition and bibliography of the species The differential 



characters of the three species which make up the genus 

 Phelipaea are set out in the following key, after which fuller 

 descriptions and bibliographical notes follow: — 



Calyx conspicuously 2-lipped, upper lip subentire ; corolla 

 lobes round, distinctly imbricate; anthei-s bearded; 

 pubescence of elongated, gland-tipped hairs; scale leaves 

 more or less congested at the base, distinctly sheath- 



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Calyx 5-fid, lobes subecpuil, the 3 post icons conniving into 

 an upper, the 2 anticous into a lower lip; pubescence of 

 very short gland-tipped hairs; scale leaves more or less 

 scattered, semi-amplcxicaul, very rarely the uppermost 

 shortly sheathing. 



Corolla lubes round, distinctly imbricate; anthers 

 bearded 



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2. Boissicri. 



Corolla lobes roundish oblong, spreading; anthers 

 glabrous ... ... ... 3. foliata. 



1. 



^' Tournefortii, Desf. — Caulis sparse vel superne densius- 

 cule _ f ulvo-vel cinereo-glanduloso-pul)eseens, pilis ad 0-75 mm. 

 longis, quorum cellulis 2 inferioribus 2-4-plo longioribus quam 

 latis. Squamae basi congestae, in speciminibus elatis alte 

 vagmante, m nanis abbreviatae, parte libera breviter late ovata 

 subacuta vel subcucullata. Calyx campanulatus bilabiatus, 1-5- 

 ^•o cm. lon^rus, tubo 7-10 mm. longo, labis supero latissimo 

 subintegro, mfero ad vel ultra medium bifido, tobis oblougis 

 obtusis, tetus pube eadem ac caulis interdum donsa indutus. 

 L^oroUae tubus latus, leviter curvatus, supra medium oblique 

 ampiiatus, 1-5-2-5 cm longus, extus suporne magis minusve 

 glanduloso-pubf seen. ; limbus coccineus, liilabiutus! lobis sub- 



