List of Spontaneous Vascular Plants, liitherto observed in Cyprus. 



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E. herniariaefolia Willd. Sp. pi. II, 902 (1799); Boiss. Fl. orient. IV, 1123; Kotscliy, ('.viirrii. ■ir)9. 

 Rocky places in the mountains. Near tlie summit of Cliionistra (UK). 



E. Piiralias L. Sp. pi. ed. 1, 458 (17ri;i); lioiss. Kl. 

 iSand-duncs at Salamis (JH 45s and 4(')n). 



i>rifiit. IV, 11 ao. 



E. Thouipsonii iiov. sp. — A'. Ki>tsi_]iijiiu(i Kutscliy, 

 Cypern, 3.59 (186.5); non Fenzl. E. Characias Tliomps.. Fl. Cypr. 

 338 (1906); non L.— Probaljiliter etiam E. sijlmticn Sil)tli. et 

 Smith, Prodr. I, 332 (1806); non .Tacq. 



Perennis, inferne molliter hirsuta. Caulibus 

 crassis erectis ad 1 m. altis, inferne induratis, cica- 

 tricosis, superne crebre foliosis, thyrsoideis, ramulis 

 umbellacque multii'adiatae radiis ad 10 cm. longis. 

 Foliis tirmis, sed non coriaceis, e ba.si longe angu- 

 stata lineari-lanceolatis obtusiusculis mucro- 

 nulatis integerrimis, subtus paliidioribus, inferioribus 

 iiti'inque hirsutis, superioribus tantum ciliatis abbre- 

 viatis, umbellaribus obovatis obtusis, floralibus virenti- 

 fiavidis in patellam eoncaviusculam ultra medium con- 

 natis. Involucro campanulato, eliam extus molliter 

 liirsuto, lobis oblongis bifid is. Glandulis melleis 

 transverse latioribus, in cornua subulata lati- 

 t u d i n e s u b a e q u a n t i a protractis. Capsula depress;! 

 tomentosa; seminibus oblongis laevibus, caruncula co- 

 nica postice sulcata. 



This large Euphorbia, which Sibthorp has 

 identified with E. silvutica Jacq. (= E. nmijgdaloides 

 L.), KoTSCHY with E. Koti^chyana Boiss, and Thomp- 

 son with E. Characias L., seems to me to be a distinct 

 species. According to my opinion it is nearest related 

 with E. Sihthorpii Boiss., but still specifically ditt'erent 

 from it, being chiefly distinguished by its broader, 

 almost obtuse leaves and by the shape of the floral 

 glands, which are protracted into long subulate appen- 

 dices. From E. Characias it differs by its broader 

 leaves, and by the shape and colour of the floral 

 glands, which are in that species intensively red ; from 

 E. Kotschyana it may at the first sight be disting- 

 uished by the not-leathery consistence of its leaves 

 and by its involucrum being hairy also on the exterior 

 side. The shape of the leaves reminds of E. lycia Boiss., 

 but this species differs considerably through several 

 other important characters. 



I have only seen E. Thompsonii at a single locality, viz. on dry slopes between maquis-shrubs 

 near the village of Pissuri (JH 712), evidently the same place where Lascelles has also collected it. 

 My specimens, collected in the beginning of May, were already so old, that most of the capsules had 

 fallen off, and it was only aftei' the examination of Kotschy's materials from the pine-forest at Prodrome 

 (UK 899 in Herb. Imper. Yindob.) that I arrived at a definitive conclusion regai-ding the nature of this 

 plant. — Probably endemical in Cypi'us. 



Vegetation of Cyprus — IG 



Enplioihla Thonip> 



sp. (.'il. 1/l.I- 



