50 List of Spontaneous Vascular Plants, liitlierto uliserved in Cyi)rus. 



a basi valde dilatå complanatå sensim attenuatis, perigonio duplo brevioribus. Capsula oblonga, costis 

 subaequidistantibiis. 



Related with 0. brev'qmUceUatum Boiss, aud 0. cmnosum L., but distinct from both through several 

 important charactei's. 0. hrevipedicellahtm has considerably shorter pedicels (which do not reach the 

 length of the flowers till after the fecondation), narrower leaves and larger flowers with 15—20 mm. 

 long and 6 — 8 mm. broad, broadly ovate, hardly refuse perigon-leaves. 0. comosum., which has some super- 

 ficial resemblance with our plant, is easily distinguished from it by its ciliate leaves, etc. 



One of the specimens collected by Sintenis and Rigo, which I have examined in Herb. Boiss.- 

 Barbey, has still bioadei- leaves than those of my collection (7 mm.), but yet surely appertains to the 

 same species. 



0. alpigenum vStapf from I^ycia, which is closely related with 0. brevipedicellatum, according to 

 the diagnose of dr. Staff (in Denkschr. Akad. Wiss. Wien L, 79 [1885]), has still narrower leaves than 

 that species. 



0. hrevipedlcelhitniii. with which species Boissiee. united the Cyprian plant, seems to be endemical 

 on the mountains of Lycia. Be.side the type-specimens from Elmalu (leg. Bourgeau) I have seen in 

 Hei'b. Boiss.-Barb. specimens of the same plant from Beidagh in Lycia, collected 1883 by Th. Pichler. 



I have collected the plant described above near the top of Chionistra, ca. 1900 m. above the sea, 

 growing on stony places inundated with water from the melting snow (.JH 991). Sintenis' and Rigo's 

 plants (SR 868!), labelled "Am Troodos", are probably from the same locality. 



O. lanceolatum Laliill. PL rar. Syr. Dec. V. 11, tali. 8 (1812); Boiss. Fl. orient. V, 216: Kotschy. Cyiiern. 1H«. 

 Near Prodiomo (UK 749). 



O. montannm Cyr. in Ten. Prodr. Fl. Xap- I- 176 (1811); Boiss. Fl. orient. V. 216; Kotseliy. Cyiicrn, 196. 

 Piodromo (Kotschy 1859, no. 37). 



O. iimheUnUim L. Sp. pi. ed. 1. 307 (17."i3); Buiss. Fl. orient. V. 218. 



Fields near Kythraea (SR 177!). 



var. minus Ascliers. et tJraebn. Synops, niitteleur. Fl. Ill, 24."i (19i).')). (>. niinus L. til.. .Mant. II. Mi (1771). 



A dwarfish form from Hag. Napa, almost with the aspect of 0. namnu. Sibth. et Smith, but without 

 wings on the capsules, seems to belong to this variety (JH 34). 



subsp. O. divergens Boreau, Fl. Centr. Fr. II, 507 (1849); .lord, et Fonrr. I.-on. Fl. Eurup. 3(i. tali. 76, tiy-. 125; 

 Freyn in Verb, zool.-bot. (ies. Wieu XXVII, 441; Boiss. Fl. orient. V, 218. 



Shady places at Kuklia in the Messaria (JH 387). 



O. temiifolinm (iuss. Prodr. Fl. Sic. I, 413 (1827); Boiss. Fl. orient. V. 218; Kotscby, Cypern. ]9."i. 



Dry fields. Prodrome, between Limassol and Omodos (UK). Heptakomi (JH 529). Nikosia 

 (SR 176!).' 



subsp. O. trichopbyllum Boiss, et Heldr. Hiayn. plant, orient. Sér. 2. IV, 108 (18.59). 0. temdfolium ?■ tricho- 

 phyUum Boiss. FL orient. V, 219 (1884). 



In my .specimens the lower pedicels are less elongated than in the typical form. A quite simila)- 

 plant was collected by Haussknecht near Aleppo in March, 1865 (vidi in Herb. Boiss.). 



Dry fields at Strongylo in the Messaria (JH 357). 



O. peilicelJare Kotscby, Cypern, 195 (1865); Boiss. Fl. orient. V, 219. 



Probably endemical on Cyprus. Boissier says in Fl. orient.. 1. c. : "Eamdem speciem legisse 

 videtur el. Weiss in Creta ad Cydoniam", but the specimens alluded to here differ from 0. pedicellare in 

 having ciliate leaves etc., and have appeared to belong to 0. ciAUnum Guss. (See Halacsy, Consp. fl. 

 graec. HI, 235). 



