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List of Spontaneous Vascular Plants, hitherto observed in CIjTirus. 



Genista spbacelata ["fasselata"] Decaisne in Ann. Sc. 

 Nat. 360 (1835); Boiss. FI. orient. II, 39; Post in Mém. Herb. 

 Boiss. 1900, No. 18, 92. G. acanthodada Sint. et Rigo, Iter (Jypr. 

 No. 539 (1880), teste Boiss., non DC. — Hue probabiliter etiam per- 

 tinet Ulex europaeus Kotschy, Cypern, 374; E. Hartmann in Mittheil. 

 deutsch. dendrol. Ges. 1905, 193; non L. 



A frequent maquis-shrub in the coast-region and 

 on the hills of the interior part of the island. 



A form, resembling the Syrian plant— which I 

 know from several specimens in Herb. Boiss., collected 

 by BoissiEE on the mountain of Carmel in 1846, and 

 from Jaubert and Space's figures (Illustr. plant, orient. 

 II, tab. 142) — I have in Cyprus only seen on rocky 

 places in the pine-forest on Troodos, near the Govern- 

 ment-offices; it grows there in great number, forming 

 dense almost hemisphaerical shrubs (JH 1089). 



Much more distributed in Cyprus, especially in 

 the lower regions of the island, is a variety, which I 

 will propose to call 



var. Boyilliana nov. var. G. sphacelata Boiss. Pl. orient. 

 Suppl. 159! (1888); Barbey, Karpathos, 103!; Decaisne, p. p. 



A typo differt statura elatiore, ad 1.5 m. alta, 

 ramis elongatis tenuioribus, ramulis floriferis ad 7 — 8 

 cm. longis, ca. 20-sulcatis, supra flores plerumque 

 divaricatim ramosis. 



In the typical form of G. sphacelata the rami- 

 fication is generally much more intricate, often densely 

 fasciculate, the floriferous twigs are 2—4 cm. long, 

 nearly always simple, ca. 12-sulcate. The external aspect 

 is rather ditferent from that of var. Bovilliana, which 

 differs from the type in an almost analogous manner as 

 G. acanthodada DC. var. tenuior Boiss, from the type 

 of that species. 



I have taken the liberty to name this variety 

 after Mr. A. K. Bovill, principal forest officer of Cyprus, 

 who has during many years observed the differences 

 between the two forms of G. sphacelata occurring in 

 the island. 



Besides from Cyprus, where this variety is very 

 common in the lower regions up to Pentadaktylos (SR 

 539!), Lemithu near Prodromo (JH 938) and Kantara 

 (JH 55.5), I have seen specimens of it from the island 

 of Karpathos (Pichlee no. 162 in Herb. Boiss.). 



G. sphacelata is not mentioned in the list of 

 Kotschy; but as he indicates Ulex europaeus 'L., a species 

 not occurring in the whole area of Boissiee's Flora 

 orientalis, to be common in the island I believe with Sin- 

 TENis (in Oe. B. Z. XXXII, 20—21), that he has eon- 

 founded it with the present plant. Unfortunately Kot- 

 schy has not left any specimens, which might have 

 definitively decided the question. 



Genista sphacelata var. Bovilliana uov. var. C/,). 

 a. Part of the Stem. (Vi). 



