List of Spontaneous Vascnlar plants, hitherto oljserved in Cyprus. 



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In Cyprus only planted from ancient time in tlie gardens of two monasteries, sc. those of Haff. 

 Ncophytos at Tala near Paphos (Michaelideh!, JH 743) and Antiphoniti on the northern coast (Pococke' 

 SiBTHOEP, UK, JH 840). ' 



Various opinions have been uttered as to the affinities of the LiqmdumJmr o-rowins- in the Levant, 

 and more especially that of Cyprus, to the well-known -'f^wcet gum", which is widely distributed in great 



P'ig-. 29. Leaves of Liquidambar styraciflua L. from Hag'. Neophytos, (Jyprus (Vi) 

 a—b. With divided Lobes. — c. With entire Lobes. 



parts of North America. While Linnaeus only knew the American tree. Miller and after him Aiton 

 described the Oriental kind as a distinct species. Unger and Kotschy, who saw the group of trees at 

 Antiphoniti during their journey in 1862, referred these trees to the Oriental L. imberbe of Aiton. On 

 the other side Boissier and after him C. K. Schneider (Illustr. Handb. Laubholzk. I, 428), having 

 examined the specimens in Kotschts collection, consider them as identical with the North American tree 

 and specilically distinct from L. orienfiiJi:> Mill., which forms forests in certain paiis of Asia Minor. 



Vegetation of Cyprus — i;j 



