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List «f Spontaneous Vascular plants, hitherto observed in Cyprtis. 



E. Myrsinites L. Sp. pi. ert. 1, 461 (175.^); 8il)th. et Smith, Prortr. I. 331: Boiss. Fl. orient. IV. 1134: Kotsehy. 

 Cypern, 3.59. 



Rocky places in the middle mountain-reffion. Pliiiii and Trooditissa (UK), Prodiomo (.III 942). 

 Already observed by Sibthorp. 



Anacardiaceae Lindl. 



Pistacia Lentiscus L. Sp. pi. 

 ert. 1, 1026 (17.53); Gaudry, Recherches, 192 

 et 197; Boiss. Fl. orient. II, 8: Kotschy, 

 Cyi)ern, 361. 'Syivia. 



Frequent in maqui.'^- forma- 

 tions everywhere in moderate heights 

 above the sea. Mazoto (JH 182). 

 In the garden of Mr. Cacathymi 

 at Limassol I have seen a beautiful, 

 dendriform .specimen of the famous 

 variety from Chios, which has been 

 introduced from that island by the 

 father of the present proprietor many 

 years ago. The same tree is also 

 mentioned by P. Gennadiu.s (Atjri- 

 cult. of Cypr. II, p. 25). 



P. atlantica Desf. Fl. Atlant. 

 II, 364 (1800); Engl, in DC. Monogr. Phan. 

 IV, 287 et in Nat. Pfl.fam. Ill, 5, 158. 

 P. TercUnihus Kotschy, Cypern, 361 (1865), 

 saltern pro parte; Boiss. Fl. orient. II. 6 

 (quoart plantani cypriam); uon L. 



Engler, in his monograph 

 of the family, has first pointed out, 

 that P. ntlantica, formerly known 

 from North Africa, the western 

 Mediterranean and the Canary Is- 

 lands, also grows in Cyprus. Branch- 

 es from the old terebinths at 

 Hierokipos near Paphos, which were 

 brought home by Kotschy as P. 

 Tererintlius and are now kept in 

 the museum at Vienna, accoi'ding 

 to Engler must be referred to this 

 species. This is also the case with 

 a branch from the same locality, 

 collected by Kotschy and labelled 

 as P. palaestina, which I have ex- 



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Leaf of Pistaria alltnifica Desf. ('/i). 

 Part of the .Mirt-rih (ca. -/,). 



amined in Herb. Boissier; also in this specimen the mid-ribs of the leaves are very distinctly margined. 

 This must have been overlooked by Boissier, for in his "Flora orientalis" the specimen is ei'roneously 

 quoted as P. Tcrchinfhiis. Hoissikr. quoting the statement of Engler, seems to be in doubt, whetliei' 



