74 List of Spontaneous Vascular Plants, hitherto ohserved in Cyprus. 



S. gigantea L. Sp. pi. ed. 1, 418 (1753); Boiss. Fl. orient. I, 645 et Suppl. 106; Kotsohy, Cypern, 348. 

 Rocky places, hitherto only observed on the northern mountain-range. Chrysostomo (UK), Penta- 

 daktylos (SR 604!), Hair. Hilarion (JH 818). 



S. longipetala Vent. .lard. Cels. 83, tab. 83 (1800); Siljth. et Sniitli, Prodr. I, -JWo; Boiss. Kl. orient. 1. 636; 

 Kotsi'hy, Cypern, 350. 



Fields. Near Larnaka (UK). Phyti (JH 707). Already mentioned by Sibthorp. 



S. galataea P.oiss. Fl. orient. .Suppl. 102 (1888). .9. pseudo- n f nciuii Thumps. Fl. Cypr. 278 (1906), salteni p. \i.- 

 lion Desf. 



The words "calyce quinquenervi" in Boissier's diagnosis must be altered into, "lO-nervi''; there 

 is always one distinct nerve running to the summit of each, calyx-lobe, and others ending near the incisions 

 between the lobes. 



In a living state the petals are pale reddish (Boissier says "lamina flavidolivida", but he has 

 only seen dried specimens). I have compared my plant with Sintenis' type-specimens in the Herbier 

 Boissier, and they surely belong to the same species. 



The veritable S. jj.seudo-atocioji Desf. with whom our plant has been confounded by Thompson, 

 is an annual species appertaining to the section Dichasiosilene Rohrb., the geographical distribution of 

 which is restricted to the northwestern Africa. Already as far east as in Tunetia its occurrence is dubious 

 (MuEBECK, Fl. Tun. 1, 33). 



An endemical species, which was at first discovered by Sintenis in the vine-yards at Galata in 

 the Evrykhu-valley (SR 768!). Rocky places at Yalia (JH 796). 



S. paradoxa L. .'^p. pi. ed. 2, 1673 (1763); Boiss. Fl. orient. I. 633; Sihth. et Smith. Prodr. 1, 298. 

 In Cyprus only found by Sibthorp. 



S. fruticusa L. Sp. pi. ed. 1, 417 (1753); Sihth. et Smith, Prodr. 1, 299; Boiss. Fl, orient. I, 6.33; Kotsrhy, Cypeni, .350. 



On rocks at Ktima, discovered by Sibthorp. Also collected there by Kotschy, as well as by ■ 

 myself (JH 718). 



S. italica Pers. Syn. I, 498 (1805); Boiss. Fl. orient. 1, 631; Post in Mrin. Herh. Boiss. 1900, no. 18,91, Cuni- 

 balus italicus L. Syst, ed. 10, 1030 (1758—59). 



Fields and hills. At Paphos, according to Post. 



Saponaria depressa Bivona, Stirp. uov. rar. Sicil. II. 15 (1814): Cosson, lllnstr. Fl. .\tlant. I. 122, tah. 77 (uptinia!); 

 Pojero, Fl. Sicul.- I, 160, tab. 19; Halaesy, Fl. Ciraec. I, 187; Strobl in Oesterr. hot. Zeitsclu-. 1885. 321: Battand. v[ Trahut. 

 Fl. d'Alg. II, 142; Hausskn. in llitth, thiir. hot, Ver, Neue Folge, V, 53. 



subsp. S. cypria Boiss. Fl, orient. Snppl. 83 (1888): Freyn in Bull. Herb. Boiss. VI, 888. S. n/pricn PoM in Bull. 

 Herb. Boiss. V, 7.55 (1897) et VII, 161. 



Perennis, rhizomate crasso, sublignoso, caudiculos plures tenuos fragiles, rosulatim foliosos, caulesque 

 floriferos erectos, ad 20 cm. altos edente. Foliis basalibus glaucis glaberrimis crassis, obovato-spathu- 

 latis, apice rotundatis, obtusis vel apice mucronulatis, in petiolum lamina plerumque subaequantem 

 angustatis. Caulibus floriferis fere ad basin densissime glanduloso-pubescentibus viscidis, laxe 

 corymbosim ramosis, usque ad 8-17 floris (in speciminibus pumilis interdum unifloris). Foliis caulinis et 

 tloralibus minutis, anguste oblongis, obtusis, ut et pedunculi et calyces dense glanduloso-pubescentibus. 

 Calyeibus breviter pedicellatis, longe cylindricis, 20-28 mm. longis et 4 — mm. era.s.sis, fructiferis parum 

 inflatis, dentibus elongatis lanceolatis, sensim angustatis, acutis. Petalorum unguibus subexsertis, 

 lamina obovata bipartita rosea, in fauce appendicibus binis subulatis instructis. Capsula oblongo-cylindrica, 

 calyce fere aequante, polysperma; carpophore 3 — 4 mm. longo. Seminibus compressis excentrice reniformi- 

 bus, atris, eis S. ilepn'ssac (e Thessalia) submajoribus, ca. 1.8 mm. latls, uudique irregulariter seriatim 

 granulosis. 



