List of Spontaneous Vascular plants, liitlicrto oliserved in Cyprus. 



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(he trees at Hierokipos might not sooner be reckoned to P. mutica Fisch. et Mey., a genuine Oi'iental 

 tree (Fl. orient. Suppl. 154). In fact P. atlantlca and P. mutica are very closely related to each other, 

 and may with good reason be considered as subspecies of one collective .species, which has to bear the 

 name first given to one of its forms, viz. P. atlantica Desf. As will be seen from the accompanying 

 illustration (Fig. 37), the Cyprian tree has most resemblance with the typical western form, the leaves 

 having 3-5 pairs of nai-row, lanceolate leaflets. 



At Hierokipos (UK!), Kiti (JH 1097) and probably elsewhere in the lower regions. At the 

 latter village there is a group of very old and lai'gc trees round the church. 



P. TereUinthus \.. Sp. pi. ed. 1, 1025 

 (17.5.S); Gaudry, Recherelies, 19.3; Boiss. Fl. 

 orient. II, 6. F. palaestina Kotschy, Cypern, .361 

 (186.i). TpeV^^o?- 



Thickets and hill-sides, common 

 up to the top of Kionia (.MI 1113); 

 Kalavaso (JH 606). 



Note. In Cyprus I have not seen well- 

 iiiarkril trees of subsp. P. palaestina Boiss., wliich 

 is indicated for the island by Kotschy (Cypern, 

 p. 361), and the specimens of that name which I have 

 cxaiaiued in liis collections belong to P. aflanfica. 



Rims Coriaria L. Sp. pi. ed. 1, 26.t 

 ( 17.53); Gaudry, Recherches, 196; Boiss. Fl. orient. 

 II, 4; Kotschy, Cypern, 361; Post in Méra. Herb. 

 Boiss. 1900. no. 18, 93. Pou'Su. PoOpt 



Hill-sides and vine-yards, common 

 in the Troodos-mountains in their whole 

 extension from Vavatsinia and Makhaeras 

 (JH) to Kykko (JH 1029) and Khryso- 

 rogiatissa (UK). Kakopetria (JH 852). 



Aceraceae St.-Hil. 



Acer obtusifoliuiu Sibtli. et Smith, 

 Prodr. I, 263 (1806); Fl. Graec. IV, .53, tab. 361 1: 

 Kotschy, Cypern, 355!; Sint. et Eigo, Iter cypriuni 

 1880, No. 12!; non A. creiiciim var. ohtusifollum 

 Spacli in Ann. sciences natur. Sér. 2, II, l"o (18.34), 

 nee A. orientale var. obtusifoUum Pax in Engl, 

 .lahrb. VII, 231 (1886) et auctorum plurinmm. 

 A. syriacum var. q/prium Kotschy, Cypern, 356! 

 (1865); Boiss. Fl. orient. I, 952; Pax in Engl. 

 Pfl.-reich, IV, 163, 63. StpoMtano;. 



SiBTHOEp's diagnose and still more the excellent figures in "Flora Graeca" agree so completely 

 with the Cyprian maple, that they cannot but represent the same species. Eoth E. Spach, and the most 

 recent monographer of this difficult genus, F. P.'^x [in Englek's Pflanzenreich, IV, 65 (1902)] have referred 

 SiBTHORp's Acer ohtusifolhim as a variety to A. orientale L. (= ^4. crcticum L.), and in doing so they 

 are followed by most authors. The words "foliis . . . longitudine fere petiolorum" in Sibthoep's diagnose, 

 however, clearly show, that his plant cannot appertain to a species, whose most important character 

 is to be found in its subsessile or very short-stalked leaves. — A. .^yriaeum Boiss, et Gaill. (1856) from 

 Lebanon is very closely related with A. ohtus'ifolUnn and probably only represents a variety— or peiliaps 



I'ig. 38. Acer ohtiisifolhmi Sibth. et Snutli. 

 Fruiting Branch (ca. '/<;)■ 



