482 MONOGRAPHIA POLVGALACEAKUM. 



Tab. noslra XXXV, fig. 17-28. 



Basi leviler subfrutescens. Caules basi ramosi duri niidiusculi superne parce 

 ramosi, tenues striati, puberiili 0,5 ad 0,8 inm. crassi, 15-30 cm. alti. Folia infe- 

 riora et sœpe etiam caulis modii, obovata vel late obovato-spalhulata, obtiisa val 

 mucronala, lenuia.infimasœpissime minora sensim versus apicem caulis augescen- 

 tia, superiora variabilia, ovato-elliptica frl f| f^ ^ mm. vel minora, vel lanceolata, 

 leviter, mucronala, conferta interdum suborbicnlaria glabrescentia vel pilis paucis 

 conspersa. Racemi terminales brèves, pauci et laxillori vel multiflori. Bracteae ellip- 

 ticae membranaceœ vel ovatae, pedieello duplo vel triplo breviores. Pedicelli ad 

 ■3 mm. longi. Alœ inaequilaterales subellipticœ vel suborbiculares, obtusae, submu- 

 cronatae, nervis valde ramosis vix anastomosantibus, corollam superantes glabr;B. 

 '/=,■, Vs ni'ii- unguiculo brevi vel late ovatae. Sepala exteriora inaequalia, inferius multo 

 majns basi geniculatum, margine ciliata. Tubus corollai elongatus. Crista speciosa 

 multifida petala superiora valde superans. Petala superiora per '/, cum tubo sta- 

 minali connata, falcata, limbo ovato, ungui longo. Antherae sessiles monadelphne vel 

 subdiadelphse glabrae. Ovarium breviter stipitatuni. Stylus multo longior filiformis 

 curvatus. Stigma superius dontiforme inferius rotundatuni, parva. Capsula obovato- 

 elliptica irregiilaris, alis inœqualibus mediocribus alata. Semina subpyriformia bre- 

 viter hirsuta. Arillus trilobus in semine equitans lobis subœqualibus, duobus latera- 

 libus papyraceis, semine fere triplo brevioribus. 



Habitat in fruticetis et fagetis montium ad Brussam (Asia minor). (Picbler pi. 

 exscc. Fl. Rumel. et Bytliyn. 61.) Tab. noslra XXXV, fig. 27-31. 

 cum forniis et varietatibus in Thracia, Tauria, Anatolia, Armenia, Cilicia, Syria, 

 PalaBStina, Persia boreali, Gr.ecia, Bosnia, Hungaria merid. 



Variât racemis paucifloris et alis minus elatis, foliis ovato-ellipticis angustioribus 

 (E Libano, Boiss.), alis lanceolato-ovatis, babitu minore (Fontenay n° 10 e Cons- 

 tantinopol.) Olympus (Pichl. 16). (De Heidr. 2855.) (P. Gundelsheimeri Koch. in 

 Linn. 1846, forma minor alis late oblongis). 



Var. andracimoides Willdn. 



A spec. genuina habitu minore, foliis minoribus obovato-rotundatis confertis 

 interdum oppositis, floribus minoribus, alis ellipticis oblongis acutis vel obtusis, 

 caulibus dilïusis decumbentibus, capsulis auguste marginatis. 



P. telephioides Boiss. Diagn. Ser. II. V. p. 49; P. supina ^ pauciflora Boiss. 11. 

 or.: P. recurvata Celak. Oest. Bot. Zeilscbr. 1872. p. 109; 1884, p. 206-211. 



