List of Spontaneous Vascular Plants, liitherto observed in Cyprus. 



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it with any of tlicm. Among the species with red tiowers some forms of U. ghhularlaefoHus Fcnzl have 

 ahiiost as short pedicels as our plant, but the siiape of calyx and corolla is very ditfcrcnt. The same 

 observations may be made when comparing- the Cyprian plant with U. serratus (L) DC, which species 

 is moreover easily distinguished by its acutish leaves. The other oriental species differ still more by their 

 paniculate inflorescenses, etc. 



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U. paJWUnoriis nov. sp.— Probabiliter: U. Pestalnzzae Post in Mém. Herb. Boiss. No. 18. 9.3 (1900); non Boiss. 



Pcrcnnis, cauiibus floriferis extrarosularis, annuls, arcuatim adscendentibus, ad 15 cm. altis, 

 supra dense ct minute glanduloso-pubescentibus, subtus glabris. Pohis rosularum carnosis, 

 o-laberrimis, lincari-spathulatis, ad 35 mm. longis et 10 mm. latis, basi longe attenuatis, apice parum 

 dilatatis, subacuminatis, 



margine anguste membrana- .- \^ fi 



ceis, crenato-denticulatis; 

 caulinis paucis, anguste lingu- 

 latis, ad 20 mm. longis et 3 

 mm. latis, obsusis, dense glu- 

 tinosis, dcciduis. Panicula 

 racemosa, ovata, laxa, pe- 

 dicellis glutinosis, calyce sub- 

 aequantibus, floribus subnu- 

 tantibus. Calyce dense gluti- 

 noso, campanula to, ad Vs 

 longitudinis partite, segmentis 

 triangu lari-lanceolatis, 

 acutis. Corolla calyce fere 

 duplo longiore, 7 mm. longa 

 et 5 mm. lata, flavescenti- 

 albida, urceolata, persi- 

 stente, solum ad tertiam 

 partem fere divisa; laciniis 

 triangulari-ovatis, acuminatis, 

 acutis, extus totum minute 

 puberulis, ad carinam pilis 

 firmioribusob.sitis, margine non '' " 



ciliatis. Filamentis corolla FIk. 27. a. Flower of VmbUicus cyprius nov. sp. (=/i).— 6. Corolla of the same species, 

 tertiå parte brevioribus; an- e^^P^'wled {'^U).—c. Flower of V. palMiflorm nov. sp. (*/i).— rf. Corolla of the same species, 

 theris reniformibus, obtusis. expame /, . 



A distinct species without near affinities to any one of the yellow-flowered species of the section 

 Rusularia DC, to which section also the present species appertains. The shape of calyx and corolla 

 reminds of U. glohutariaefolius Fenzl, the shape of the basal leaves and also the inflorescence of U. 

 libanoticus (Labill.) DC and U. Pestalozzae Boiss., but all these species differ from our plant— apart from 

 their red flowers— C/. globular iae f oU us by its thyrsoid-spicate racemes and pubescent basal leaves, and 

 both the others by their much shorter, almost linear calyx-lobes, more deeply divided corolla, lanceolate 

 petals, and other characters. 



I found this species growing on the ruins of tiie mediaeval castle of Hag. Hilarion, together with 

 the foregoing species (JH 824 b). - Perhaps is this the same plant, which is indicated for this locality by 

 Post as U. Pestalozzae; if his specimens were not collected exactly in the flowering season, a confusion 

 of the two species would be very excusable. 



