Historical Development of our Knowledge on the Cyprian Flora. iQ 



directions and has thoroughly explored great parts of the northern mountain-range. Extensive collections 

 were brought home to Eui'ope, and have been distiibuted in the exsiccate-work "Iter cyprium", which is 

 often quoted in botanical publications. It must be regretted, that Sintenis himself only has published a 

 biief and never completed account in diary-form of his excursions in Cyprus.») The most remarkable of 

 his discoveries have been utilized in the fifth volume of Boissiek's "Floi'a orientalis" and especially in the 

 supplementum to the same work, where several new species are described from his collections. Some new 

 forms have also been described in papers by L. Celakovsky, J. Fkeyn, and other authoi's (see the list 

 of literature). 



In April the same year C. and W. Barbey made a short visit to Larnaka on their return from 

 Syria; in their work "Herborisations au Levant" is given an account of the plants which they col- 

 lected here. 



From the first years after the English occupation we possess two valuable official reports on the 

 forests of the island by A. E. Wua)-) and P. G. Madon') as well as shorter papers on the same subject 

 by M. OuNEFALscH-RiCHTER,-') R. BiDDULPH») and F. V. Thltmen.«) Valuable information for botanists, 

 and more especially for students of plant-history, may also be obtained from Ohnefalsch-Richter's great 

 work "Kypros, die Bibel und Homer", vol. I— II, Berlin 1893, in which he gives the results of his 

 extensive archæological excavations in Cyprus. 



In 1S89 Th. Pichler made a short stay in the island, and on this occasion discovered a new 

 and interesting endemical shi'ub, growing at Chrysostomo, which has latei- on been described by K. Rechingek 

 as BaUotn Wettsteinii. 



During his stay in Cyprus from the autumn 1892 to the early spring of 1894, of which he has 

 given a noteworthy account in his book "Au pays d'Aphrodite", Paris 1898, E. Deschamps collected 

 several plants, which have been examinated and described by so recognized an authority on oriental plants 

 as the late Austrian botanist J. Freyn'). Some of the species have appeared to be new to science. 



The highly merited exploi'cr of the Syrian flora. Rev. G. E. Post at Beirut, whose "Flora of 

 Syria and Palestine" must be urgently recommended to everybody making botanical collections in Cyprus, 

 in the summer of 1894 extended his researches to embrace this island. During his excursions to different 

 parts of the island he made several discoveries of great value for plant-geography. A list of the more 

 remarkable plants collected by him, containing also descriptions of some new endemical species and varieties, 

 has been published in three issues under the title of "Plantae Postianae".**) 



In 1895—96 the former director of the agriculture of the island, P. G. Gennadius, published 

 his valuable "Report on the agi'iculture of Cyprus", I — III, which contains many exact statements chiefly 

 with regard to cultivated plants. Gennadius gave much attention to the vegetation of the island and 

 had good opportunity to make observations during his many official journeys. As an appendix to an 

 agricultural pamphlet, recently published,^) he has given a "hst of indigenous or exotic plants growing 

 in the island and known by name by many inhabitants there". This enumeration which is arranged in 

 alphabetical order has, on account of the many native Cypriot names, great scientific value. Most of the 

 names were already published in 1901 in a series of papers in the journal "'1>wmii tt,; Ku'^pou" (at Nikosia); 

 this preliminary list, however, only runs to the letter P, and is of course almost inaccessible to European 



') p. Sintenis, Cypern und seine Flora. 



-) A. E. Wild, Report on the Fore.sts in the Sonth and West of the Island (if Cyprus. Luiidun 1S7>(. 



•') P. G. Madon, Forest Conservancy in the Island of Cyprus. London 1881. 



•*) M. Ohnefalscu-Eichteb, Cyperns Walder und Waldwirtschaft. (Ausland. 188,-)). 



'^) R. BiDDi'LPH, The Cedar Forests of Cyprus. (Nature, 188'?). 



'■) F. V. TiiiiMEN, Die WahUiiiume und die Waldwirthschaft auf der Insel ( 'y]i(rn. (( 'iiitrallil. yes. Kurstu. ISSO. 



') J. Fkeyn, Ueli. neue und beiuerkeuswerthe orientalische Pflanzeuarten, 11. (IJiill. Herl). I'xiiss. V, 18!)7). 



«) G. E. Post, Plantae Postianae. Fasc. Vlll— X. (Bull. Herb. Boiss. V, 1897: VII, 1899; Mém. Herb. Boiss. 1900). 



'■') P. Gennadius, Hints on the NVork to 1)6 followed by the Agricultural Department in Cyprus, p. yi — 43. Nicosia 1907. 



