•[^24 List of Spontaueous Vascular Plants, hitherto observed in Cyprus. 



subspecies— of it. By its author A. oMusifolmm is indicated to grow "in montibus Sphacioticis Cretae", 

 but in that island it has never been collected by other botanists; there seems to be good reason to believe, 

 that this statement, like so many others of Sibthoep's indications concerning the native countries of the 

 plants, depends upon some confusion, and that he has collected the species during his stay in Cyprus. 

 All specimens of A. urimtulc fiom Crete and other parts of Greece, which I have seen determinated 

 as var. " obtusifdium Sibth. et Smith", are speciflcally different from the Cyprian plant and accordingly 

 also from Sibthobp's species. 



Besides by its much longer petioles, whose length in most cases is 74— V4 the length of the lamina, 

 and even in dwarfish shrublets growing on exposed localities in the mountain-region of Kionia, ca. 1420 m. 

 above the sea, is at least half the length of the lamina (JH 1114), A. ohtusifol'ium also differs from .-1. 

 orientale by the nervature of its leaves. The secundary nerves are much more prominent on the lower 

 surface, and there are 2 or 3 very distinct degrees of strength between them and the smallest veinlets; 

 in A. orientale there are almost no transions between the principal nerves and the lowest veinlets. 



The shape of the lamina is subjected to great variations. Forms with rounded, obtusely tliree- 

 lobed leaves, such as in Sibthobp's figures, are most frequently met with. Sometimes the lobes are 

 broadly triangular (UK 829, JH 1004), with more or less crenate margins. 



Common both in the Troodos-mountains and on the northern mountain-range. In the neighbour- 

 hood of Kykko monastery and elsewhere this maple plays an important part in the constitution of the 

 forests.— Buffavento (Kotschy, Suppl. 477!), below Makhaeras (UK 221!), between Prodromo and Tris 

 Eliaes (UK 829), Eleussa near Galala (SR 12!), Hag. Hilarion (JH 816), Kykko (JH 1004), Kionia 

 (JH 1114). 



Note. A. orientale L. Syst. iiat. ed. 10, 11, 1300 (17.59) [= A. ireticiim h. Sp. pi. ed. 2, 1497 (176:3) et aucturuni 

 pluriraum] is indicated for the Troodos-mountains by Sibtiiokp (in Walpole's memoirs, p. 22), Gaudry (Recherches, p. U:B) 

 and Post (in Mém. Herb. Boiss. 1900, No. 18, p. 92). 1 have not seen their specimens, but have a suspicion, that a confusion 

 has taken place with small forms of A. obhisifolium, like my plant from Kionia (see above). 



Rhainnaceae Lindl. 



Paliiirus australis (iaertu. Fruct. I, 20.S, tab. 43 (1788); Halacsy, Kl. (iraec. 1, 314. P. acnhntus Lam. lllustr. 

 II, 210 (1793); Boiss. Kl. orient. IT, 12; Kotschy, (Jypern, 357. Rhnmnus PaVmms L. Sp. pi. ed. 1, 194 (1753). Z'ayplms 

 IMlhirm Willd. Sp. pi. 1, 1103 (1797); Clarke, Travels, VllI, 449. llaXoupa. 



Dry and stony fields, common everywhere in lower regions. Salamis (JH 470), Nikosia (Michaei.ides!). 



[Zizyphus saliva (iaertu. Fruct. 1, 202, tab. 42 (1788); Halåcsy, Fl. Graec. 1, 315. Z. vulgaris hMw.YAuyd.lU. 

 316 (1789); Boiss. Fl. orient. II, 12; Kotschy, Cypern, 357. Ehamnus Zizyphus L. Sp. pL ed. 1, 194 (1753). 



Near villages, surely originally introduced. Comares in the Karpas (UK); Limassol (Michaelides!)]. 



Z. Lotas Lam. Eucyel. Ill, 317 (1789); Caudry, Recherches. 188; Boiss. Fl. orient. II. 12; Kotschy, Cypern, .357. 

 Rhammis Lotus L. Sp. pi. ed. 1, 194 (1753). KovaTita. 



Near the salines at Larnaka (Gaudey); Kiti (UKi. I have seen a few old trees at Meneou 

 (JH 1096) and Alethriko (JH 1099). 



Z. Siiiiia Christi Willil. Sp. pi. I, 1105 (1797); Boiss. Fl. orient. II, 13; Kotschy, Cyperu, 357. Rhamims Spina 

 Christi L. Sp. pi. ed. 1, 195 (1753). 



Small groups of old trees are met with near Hag. Varnavas north of Famagusta (UK). — Probably 

 the "arborescent Paliurus", which E. Habtmann indicates to grow in the northeastern part of the Messaria 

 (see Mittheil. deutsch. dendrol. Ges. 1905, p. 189', will appear to belong to the present or another species 

 of Zizyphus. 



