42 -List of Spoutaueons Vascular Plants, liitlierto ubserved in (Jypnis. 



f. minor Post, Fl. Syr. 838 (1896). 



Prodromo (JH 949). Among' my specimens there aie some ones of hisiis siihJn(sijii/iia Aschers. 

 et Graebn. Syn. II, 2. 193. 



subsp. C. hiiierviformis nov. subsp. 



A typo differt statura elata (usque ad 0.7 m. alta), foliis caule subaequilongis, braeteis spiculam 

 proximam superantibus, pedunculis spicularum feminearum londoribus (ad 5 cm. longis), utriculis maturis 

 intense rubro-fuscis, nervisque duobus externis lateralibus utriculi valde conspieuis, 

 ceteris indistinctis. 



In some respects this interesting' plant leminds of the closely related C. Jnnervis Smith, which is 

 widely distiibuted along the Atlantic coasts of Europe, from Portugal to western Norway, but is not 

 hitherto known M'ith certainty from the countries east of Spain. Especially the nervature of the utriculus, 

 with two strong and prominent lateral nerves besides some very inconspicuous or hardly visible ones, is 

 more like that of C. Imierris than of the typical C. distans. On the other hand our plant differs from 

 C. htnervis and approaches towards C distans through several important characters: the tufted growth, 

 the absence of creeping stolenes, the texture of the basal sheathes, which exactly correspond with those 

 of the typical C. distans, etc. It seems, therefore, most natural to consider it as a suspecies of this species. 



In his "Illustrations of the genus Carex", vol. IV, p. 162, F. Boott has indicated C. hinen-is from 

 the Cilician Taurus; specimens from here, collected by Kotschy, are said to exist in herb. Bentham. I 

 have not had any opportunity to see these specimens, but as stated by Boissiek (Fl. or. V, p. 426), the 

 indication is surely erroneous. Boissier supposes, that the Cilician plant is a hybrid between C. distans 

 and C. glauca Scop. Perhaps is it more probable, that it might be identical with my C. hincrriformis 

 from Cyprus. 



Kuklia in tlie Messaria, along water-channels (JH 367). 



C. dihita M. Kiebst. Fl. Taur.-canc II. 388 (18(18); Boiss. Fl. orient. V, 425. 

 Shrubby places at Vrysi tu Eroton on the peninsula of Akamas (JH 790). 



C. acutiformis Elirh. hntr. II, 43 (1788); Eiobter. PI. Enrop. 1. I(j7. C. jmlndosa (iood. in Trans. Linn. Sue. II, 

 202 (1791-): Boiss. Fl. orient. V, 430; Sintenis in Ue. B. Z. XXXII. 121. 



Wet places at Kythraea (according to Sintenis). 



Palmae (L.) Juss. 



Phoenix dactylifera L. Sp. pi. ed. 1, 1188 (1753); Boiss. Fl. orient. V, 47; Kotschy, Cypern, 212. «Poiitxto. 



Freiiuent in tlie lower regions of the island, planted and snbspontaneons. One of the largest and best groups of 

 date-palms I ever have seen in (,'yprus is situated at Hag. Georgios, at a short distance from Nikosia on the road to Larnaka. 

 The greatest altitude, where I have seen palms growing, is at the monastery of Hag. Elias near Lythrodonda, at least 500 m. 

 above sea-level (this station is already mentioned by Kotschy, 1. c). In spite of the conjecture of Kotschv. who supposed 

 the date-palm to have been introduced to the island by the Moslem, it is certain, that it has grown here already in ancient 

 age (see pag. 15). 



Araceae Meisn. 



Arum Dioscoridis Sibth. et Sm. Prodr. II, 245 (1813); Fl. (iraec. X, 37, tab. 947; Engl, in DC. Jlonogr. Plant. 

 II, 583; Boiss. Fl. orient. V, 35; Kotschy, Cyperu, 211. A. cyprmm Schott in sched. Kcjtschy It. (?ilic. 1859, no. 438 a et in 

 Bonpl. 369 (1861), teste Engl.; Kotschy, Cypern, 211. 'ApxoxoXoxaar,, Xopto tti? zou9-()c. 



Fields and waste places, common in the eastern part of the island. Already seen by Sibthoep 

 at Ormidia 1787.— Capo Greco (JH 422), Hag. Napa (JH 62). 



Note. A. detruneatum C. A. Mey. is indicated for the island by Thompson (Fl. (.'ypr. 3.38): the locality is nut men- 

 tioned. The existence in Cyprus of this Persian plant needs to be verified. 



