24 RUBiACEiE. Crucianella. 



crasse albo-nervosis margine angiiste membranaceis scaberrimis 

 exteriore interioribus quarta parte longiore, corolla bracteis multo 

 breviore, mericarpiis transverse et protunde vesiculoso-rugosis O. 

 C. tuberculosa Cav. descr. 349. 



Hab.in Syria prope Aleppo (Mich.),in raonteGebel Antar supraMerre prope 

 Damascum (Gaill!), in monte Gebel Abiad deserti Syriaci (Bll), in montibiis 

 Sinaiticis (Schimp. exs. mixta cum var p.) 



/3. hispidula. — Bracteje undique hispidulee. — G. hispidula 

 Decaisn. Fl. Sin. p. 31 non F. M. 



Hab. in glareosis graniticis ad radices et in regione media montis Sinaitici 

 Sanctse Gatharinse (Schimp. exs. 156!, Bove!). 



Bracteae exteriores 2-3 lin. longie. Species fructu vesiculoso-sinuato inter 

 omnes insignis. 



• * Perennes. 

 + Bracteae interiores spiculae inter se longe connatae. 



12. C. maritima (L. Sp. 158) perennis. caubbus procumbenti- 

 bus basi frutescentibus albidis, foliis quaternis breviter oblongo-lan- 

 ceolatis coriaceis glaucis acutis ad basin caulium et secus ramos ste- 

 riles dense imbricatis, spicis densis ovatis vel oblongo-lanceolatis, 

 bractea extcriori ovata vel ovato ellipticd acuminata interioribus 

 ovato-oblougis compresso-navicularibus fere ad medium inter se con- 

 natis sequilonga vel sublongiore, corollffi tubo bracteis sesquilon- 

 giore lobis in appendicem ajquilongam abeuntibus, mericarpiis ellip- 

 tico-obovatis breviter lincolato-maculatis ^. Jc. Rubia iiuirina Clus. 

 Hist. II, p. 176, fig. 2. C. rupesfris Guss. Pr. Suppl. p. 44, non 

 differt. 



Hab. in arenosis mobilibus maritimis Palestinae prope Joppe (Ky !) et Gaza 

 (Auch. *;ii7!). .Egypti ad Alexandriara (Ehrenb! Gailll Samarl). 



Ar. Geogr. Lusitania et Hisijania, Gallia australis, Italia, Africa borealis. 



-\- -\- Bracteae interiores spiculse inter se liberai. 



l.i. G. glauca (A. Rich. M6m. Soc. Hist. Nat. Par. V, p. 131) 

 perennis multicaulis basi sutTruticosa glabra vel tenuissime puberulo- 

 velutiua, caulibus erectis elongatis vii'gatis, foliis lineai-ibus valde 

 rcvolutis scabridis, spicis gracilibus pedunculatis saepe eiongatis ter- 

 minalibus et iateralibus, bracteis ovato-oblongis cai*inatis acutis vcl 

 brcviter acuminatis ciliolatis exteriore sublongiore, corollai tubo brac- 

 teis 2-3-plo longiore lobis in appendicem ffiquilongam abeuntibus, 

 mericarpiis oblongis ^. 



a. gmuina. — Spicai densae. 



Hab. in siccis apricis priesertim montanis, Assyria in monte Nalkou (Auch. 

 G86IJ, in inoiite Gara Kurdistaniae (Ky. 521!), montes Avroman et Schahu 

 Kurdistaniie Per.sicte (Haussk!), Persiie occid. (Mich! Auch. 075!), inter Ker- 



