List of Spontaneous Vascular Plants, hitherto observed in Cyprus. 



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A. purpurea Sibth. et Smith, Prodr. Fl. Graec. 11, 28 (1813); Fl. Graec. VIT, -40, tab. 643; Sibth. iu Walp. Mem. 

 22; Boiss. Fl. orient. I. 176; Kotgchy, Cypern, 325; Post iu Mém. Herb. Boiss. 1900, no. 18, 90. A. albida Poech, Enum. PI. 

 Cypr. ni (1842); non Stev. 



Rocky places in the Troodos-raountains, common in tlieir wliole extension from Makhaeras to Yalia 

 (JH 795). — A beautiful plant, peculiar to Cyprus. Discovered on the summit of Troodos 1787 by Sibthokp. 



^-1. cypria uov. sp. .4. deftcxa 

 Boiss. Fl. orient. Suppl. 34 (1888); non 

 Fl. orient. I, 17.5 (1867). A. Billardieri 

 Kotschy, Cypern, 325 (1865); Siut. et 

 Rigo, Iter cyprium, no. 259; non DC — 

 Probabiliter : A. albida var. Billardieri 

 Post in Bull. Herb. Boiss. VII, 149 (18)9); 

 non Boiss. 



Perennis, rosulis sterilibus 

 numerosis. Cauhbus 2 — 4, e caudice 

 suffrutescente i-amoså, erectis, 

 15 — 25 cm. altis, in parte inferiore 

 pilis ramosis molliter vestitis, supi'a 

 ylaben-imis. Foliis rosularum spa- 

 thulato-oblonds, in petiolum lamina 

 aequante ang^ustatis, regulanter et 

 obtuse lobatis vel grosse seri'atis, 

 apice rotundatis, utrinque pilis ra- 

 mosis dense cano-tomentosis. Foliis 

 caulinis paucis sessilibus, e basi 

 cordato-sagittatå amplexieauli ob- 

 longis, serratis, minus canis. Racemo 

 terminali ereeto, demum subnutantc. 

 Sepalis oblongis, obtusis. Fetalis 

 albis, calyce triplo longiori- 

 b u s, 1 2 — 1 4 m m. 1 n gi s e t c a. 

 5 mm. latis; lamina late ovatå in 

 unguem eå aequilongum abrupte 

 attcnuatå. Siliquis linearibus, ad 

 40 mm. longis, 2 mm. latis, non 

 torulosis, plano-compressis, gla- 

 berrimis, nitidis, pedunculo gracili 

 duplo vel triplo longioribus, sub- 

 secundis, patule subpendulis; 

 valvis indistiucte plurinerviis. Se- 

 minibus minutis apteris, distincte 

 biseriatis. 



This species, which has hitherto been confused with ,4. BiUardieri and ^4. deflexu, is in reality 

 much nearer related with A. purpurea. In the Supplementum to Boissiee's Flora orientalis is said: 

 "Specimina ad .4. pitrpuream accedentia, sed ob fiores albos majores et formam foliorum A. defexae 

 adnumeranda" (1. c. pag. 34). However, it appears from a closer examination, that our plant is distinguished 

 from ^4. deftexa — as well as from ^4. BiUardieri— hy still more important characters. I have compared 

 the Cyprian plant with several authentical specimens of both these species, which are kept in the "Herbier 

 Boissier". In both the pods are considerably narrower, distinctly torulose, and the seeds- alternately fixed 



Fiu'. 21. Arabis ci/pria iiov. sii. (ca. '/u')- 



