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List of Spoutaneoiis Vascular Plants, hitlierto observed iii Cypnis. 



O. renosa Desv. in Journ. liot. Ill, 81 (1814); Boiss. Fl. orient. II, 553; Kotschy, Cypern, .390. Hedi/saruni i'e7insn»i 

 Desf. Fl. Atlant, n. 179, tab. 201 (1800); Sibth. et Smith, Prodr. II, 82; Fl. Graec. VIII, 16, tab. 722. 



As shown by E. Duband (apud Bornmuller in Magyar, botan. Lapok, 1902, no. 5, sep. p. 4) 

 this species is probably endemical in Cyprus. It was said by Desfontaines to grow in Tunise, but the 

 North- African plant, which Battandiek (Fl. d'Alger. Dicot. 292), Murbeck (Contrib. fl. Tun. I, 82) and 



most authors have identified with 0. vniosa 

 Desf., is in fact specifically different from it. 

 This was at first pointed out by Bornmuller 

 and DuRAND (1. c); specimens of the African 

 plant (0. hypargyrea Boiss, subsp. kahylica 

 Bornm.) I have seen in the herbarium of the 

 Hofmuseum in Vienna (leg. Choulette and 

 Reboud) and in the Herbier De Candolle at 

 Geneva (leg. A. Hénon). Very probably Des- 

 fontaines' statement regarding the native countiy 

 of our plant is erroneous and has been caused 

 by some confusion of labels. As 0. venosa was 

 already collected in Cyprus in 1787 by Labil- 

 LARDIÉRE [Vidi specim. in Herb. Boiss. 1], it is 

 vei-y probable, that it has existed in the herbaria 

 of Paris, when Desfontaines wrote his "Flora 

 Atlantica". 



As will be seen from Fig. 35 a— b, the 

 fruits of 0. venosa vary considerably as to the 

 armature of their margins. In most cases the 

 margin is provided with a series of several short 



Fis;-. 34. Onobrychis venosa Uesf. 



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Fig'. 35. Onohryclns venosa Desf. 

 Different Forms of Fruits. (-/,). 



spines, but sometimes there are only a single or 2 — 3 spines developed, or the margin may be quite 

 smooth, shghtly crenulate. 



Dry and sterile fields, common in the lower regions of the island. Kythraea (SR436!), Ormidia 

 JH 81, flowering), Davlos (JH 540, with fruits almost ripe). 



Note. 0. saxatilis Lam., a species of the western Mediterranean, is intlieated for the island by Sibthorp (Prodr. 

 II, 83), but probably does not exist there. 



Albagi Mauroruui DC Prodr. II, 352 (1825); Boiss. Fl. orient. II, 558: Gaudiy, Recherches, 187; Kotschy, 

 Cyi)em, 390; Post in Mém. Herb. Boiss. 1900, No. 18, 93. Hedi/sanmi Alhayi L. Sp. pi. ed. 1, 745 (1753), p. p.: Clarke, 

 Travels, VIH, 444. AXwMia. 



