iil 
Mesororamia, Turkish Kurdistan: Mardin, Stapf, 1462! 
Upper ef ety Montbret! Mossul: near Mossul, Kotschy, 441 
partly! Bauere! bane che Bagdad: near Bagdad, Schlafli, 
80! Kapp, PAE, 2007 
Syria. Aleppo: <Aintab, Post! near Aleppo, Russell! 
Michauz! Damascus: Doumer Gaillardot! Damascus, tat 
2006! near ruins of Baalbec, Blanche, 587! Palestine: St. Jea 
@ Acre, Labillardiére! Gethsemane, Sieber (type of C. fiehbade 
eee Spr. and of C. Sieberi, Presl)! 
ABIA. Hedjaz: Jeddah, lp fi Tipe Kruijt, 287! Fatmeh 
Valley, Fischer, 202! Schimper, 
Hover. Upper Egypt: Assiout, Fischer! 
Aucher, 2007, from Kapp on the Euphrates, and Bornmiiller, 
1270, from Amasia in Pontus, in externals bear a very close re- 
semblance to C. tinctoria, but are readily separated by their 
so many stamens that Pax an offman have referred Griffith’s 
plant to their C. subplicata, But all the flowers on Griffith’s 
his plant was erect, from 8 in. to 2 ft. high. The closely lepi- 
dote petals moreover, show that the plant is C. hierosolymitana. 
In the Edinburgh herbarium a specimen of C. hierosolymitana, 
bearing the indication Ritchie 671, is unlocalised. Most of 
wh C. hierosolymitana has never b recor 
same is - case with C. parvifolia of which there is gti in the 
] 
gathered one of these species at Am 
from T. Thomson, who collected both species be Laho 
850 (1826). Annua, herbacea, a bie Shisas. aya ie 
i i . integra, minopere undulata, vel 
urpurea, sparse breviter m 
: ge ansbrebatie inland porte wet the rae oye region 
extending from Spain and Algeria eastward to Asia Minor, 
