■j^gQ List of Spontaneous Vascular Plants, Mtherto observed iu Cyprus. 



Tataaricaceae Lindl. 



Tamarix tetragyna Ehrenb. in Linnaea II, 257 (1827); Boiss. Fl. orient. I, 768. T. "tetragona" Kotscby, Cypern, 

 354 (1865). MepiTaa, M^pixo^ (botb names are also used for otber species of tlie genus). 



Salty fields, between Hag-. Panteleimon and Paleomilo (UK). 



subsp. T. Meyeri Boiss. Piagii. plant, orient. Ser. 1. X, 9 (1849); Kotscby, Cypern, 354. T. tefragyna p Meyeri 

 Boiss. Fl. orient. I. 768 (1867). 



Common, chiefly in brackish water. About Laruaka (UK 243!, Kotschy Suppl. 455!),'Elisti (SR 

 14!), KuMia in the Messaria (JH 383), Paralimni (JH 429). 



T. tetrandra Pall. ex. M. Bieb. Fl. Taur.-cauc. I, 247 (1808); Boiss. Fl. orient. I, 769; Kotschy. Cypern, 354. 



River-sides, moist places. Kalokhorio near Larnaka (UK). 



T. parrWora DC. Pro(b-. Ill, 97 (1828); Boiss. Fl. orient. I, 770; Kotscby, Cypern, 354. 



River-sides at Xeropotamos, near the village of Vretsa (UK); Kalavaso (JH 623). 



T. Pallasii Desv. in Ann. Sc. nat. IV, 349 (1825); Boiss. Fl. orient. I, 773. T. smyrnensis Kotscby, Cypern 354 

 (teste Boiss.), non Bunge. 



River-sides, wet places. Near Amathus (UK 5721), Alethrlko (JH 23(5), Kalavaso (JH 622), 

 Kophino (JH 600). 



Note. T. mannifera Ehrenb. is indicated for the island by Thompson (Fl. Cypr. 278) without indication of locality. 

 As this species is not known from the adjacent countries, the indication needs to be verified. 



Cistaceae Lindl. 



Cistus villosus L. Sp. pi. ed. 2, 736 (1762); Boiss. Fl. orient. I, 4.36; Grosser in Engl. Pfi.reich IV. 193, 14. C. 

 polymoiylms Willk. Icon, et descr. plant. 11, 20, tab. 79—82 (1856). Swiapxa (a common name for all species of Cistus). 



Dry hills and slopes, common everywhere up to the middle mountain-reg-ion, often in great abun- 

 dance. At least represented by the following both varieties: 



var. taiiricus fxrosser in Engl. Pfl.reich IV, 193, 14 (1903). C. taurtcus Presl, Del. Prag. 24 (1822).— .?C. poly- 

 morplms Kotschy, Cypern, 335. 



Ormidia (Sibthorp, teste UK). Cyprus, without indication of special locality (SR 221, teste Geossee). 



var. creticus Boiss. Fl. orient. I, 437 (1867); Crosser in Engl. Pfl.reich, IV, 193, 16. C. creticus L. Sp. pi. ed. 2, 

 738 (1762); Sibth. et Smith, Prodr. I, 364; Fl. Craec. V, 77, tab. 495; Candry, Recherches, 193; Kotscby, Cypern, 336. 



This variety is more common than the former one, and in the Troodos-mountains, as already 

 mentioned by Ungee and Kotschy, adscends to 16 — 1700 m. above the sea. Platraes (Michaelides!), 

 Mazoto (JH 177), Vaha in the Carpass (JH 502). 



C. parviOorus Lam. Diet. encycL II, 14 (1790); Boiss. Fl. orient. I, 437; Kotscby, Cj'pern, 336. C. incamis Sibtb. 

 et Smith, Prodr. I, 363 (1806); Fl. Graec. V, 76, tab. 494; non L. 



Together with the foregoing species, not rare, already collected in the island by Sibthorp. — Near 

 Heptakomi, covering the slopes of the Yuti (JH 536). 



C. luonspeliensis L. Sp. pi. ed. 1, 524 (1753); Boiss. Fl. orient. I. 438; Kotscby, C.vpern, 336. 

 Dry slopes, in the western part of the island. Khrysoku (Sibthorp, UK), Capo Gatto (UK), Lyso 

 (JH 779). 



C. salriifolitis L. Sp. pi. ed. 1, 524 (175.3); Boiss. Fl. orient. I, 438; Kotscby, Cypern, 337. 



Grosser, the author of the last monograph of the Cistaceae, quotes Cyprian exsiccata for the following 

 three varieties: f. hrevipedunculatus Willk. Icon, et descr. plant. 11, 38, tab. 91, fig. 1 (1856), f. longi- 

 jmlunciilatus Willk. 1. c. fig. 2 and f. hifiorus Willk. 1. c. tab. 92, fig. 2. 



