116 MONOGKAl'HIA POLVGAlACEAItUM. 



eoinparanda non essel, sed l'aise, nain, P. Balansin, I'. Munljyana, i'. Welibiana in 

 Africa boreali se in Marocco cresc.nnt, I'. C.hamiEbuxus in Gailia australi, itaqiie 

 area geographica hujus sectionis vaille naliir alis, at((iie delimitata est. 



P. WEBBIÂNA, Coss. 



Ramosa diffusa ; flores iulei, crista in 5 lobis incisa, sublibera ; — Iblia liaud 

 niucronata; caules dense pubescentes, dense foliosi. 



Bull. soc. bot. fr. 20.340; Spicil. FI. Marocc. .1. Bail. 1878, 331: Chodat. 

 Not. pg. iS; Coss. III. FI. Atl. I p. 116, 118, tab. 74. 



Tab.noslr. XVIIl, lig. :JI-:J5. 



Caules ramosi, ramis diffusis, teretiusculis, inferiie denudatis, pulvinis foliorum 

 delapsoruni tuberculati, dense pubescentes superne dense foliosi 1 dcm. long! 

 vel ultra. Folia lanceolata vel lineari-elliptica, subpetiolata, acuta vel obtusa, 

 baud mucronata, sessilia. Flores in racenios axillares brèves ex axilla foliorum 

 superiorum natos, paueitloros — (3 11.) dispositi. Bractea et bracteolae subaequa- 

 les, membranaceae, obovatae, deciduae, pedicello breviores. Sepala exteriora, 

 glabra, flavescentia, ovata, insequalia, decidua ; intermedium geniculatum con- 

 cavuH), sacculiforme, duobus aliis planiusculis longius ; alae albae vel purpura- 

 scentes.obovatïe.obtusse, inferne subunguiculatre, corolla longiores.decidufe.Carina 

 galeata, sub apice appendiculata, usque ad partem superiorem cuni tubo staminali 

 connata; appendiculum usque ad basin in lobos 5 regulares, triangulares, baud 

 incrassatos, incisum. Petala superiora, carina breviora, purpureo-rosea, apice 

 oblique truncata. Tubus staminalis parte média in fdaraenta libéra desinens; antherae 

 ovoideae, glabrœ, filamentis breviores. Discus unilateralis, parte superiore, in va- 

 gina staminali situs, glanduliformis, in sicco bivalvis. Ovarium sessile, obovatura, 

 glabrum. Stylus basi filiformis, sensim ad apicem incrassatus, falcatus, in stigmata 

 inaequalia desinens ; sligma superius brève, acutum, inferius deflexum, linguifornie, 

 ut in P. Chamœbuxus. Capsula immatura, nienibranacea, vel carnulosa, a|)ice 

 truncata baud eniarginata, marginibus sublatis alata, subquadrangularis. (Semina 

 niatura non vidi). 



Hab. in Marocco p. Tetuan. in montib. saxosis Béni Osmar, in rupibus, piope 

 Tetuan (Bail). In monte Djede Moussa supra fretura Hercuiis (Blackmore). 



