List of Spontaneous Vascular Plants, hitherto observed in Cyprus. I45 



Cblora perfoliata L. Syst. Nat. ed. 12, II, 267 (1767); Boiss. Fl. orient. IV, 66; Kot.^diy. Cypern, 26.5. Gentiana 

 perfoliata L. Sp. pi. ed. 1, 2.32 (17.53). 



Wet places, common. Valia (JH 501), Tsada (JH 734). 



C. serotina Kouli in Rehh. Icon. Plant, crit. Ill, 6, tab. .Sol (1825); Boiss. FI. orient. IV, 66; Post in Mem. Herb. 

 Boiss. 1900, no. 18, 96. 



Wet places, salty marshes. "Alektriona" ') (Post), Limassol (JH 665). 



Apocynaceae Liiull. 



Nerium Oleander L. Sp. pi. ed. 1, 209 (1753); Gaudry, Recherches, 189 et 197; Boiss. Fl. orient. IV, 47; Kotschy. 

 ( 'yperii, 264. Apoi5avvT,. 



Common everywheie in wet places and river-banks in the lower regions. Kalavaso (JH 621), 

 Makhacras (JH 1123), Hagia Napa (JH 43). 



Asclepiadaceae Lindl. 



Periploca gracilis FJoiss. Fl. orient. IV, 50 (1879) et Snppl. -344. 



Climbing on hedges and maquis-shrubs. frequent in the hill-regions south of the Troodos-range. 

 Lyso in the district of Paphos (JH 778), Prodromo (JH 954). 



Marsdenia erecta R. Br. in Mem. Werii. I. 29 (1809); Scliumann in Engl. u. Prantl. Xat. Pfl.Fam. IV, 2, 292. 

 Cyvanclmm erection L. Sp. pi. ed. 1, 213 (1753). Cionura erecta Griseh. Spicil. Fl. Eumel. II, 69 (1844); Boiss. Fl. orient. IV, 62. 



Common on sand-dunes along the shore between Limassol and Amathus (JH 643). 



Note. ViiiLctoxicnm nffirhiale Jloench has been indicated tor the i.^land by 'J'hompson (Fl. t'ypr. 334), but hardly 

 gruws there spontaneously. 



Convolvtilaceae Vent. 



Conrolrnlus sepiitm L. Sp. pi. ed. I, 153 (1753); Hahicsy, Fl. Graec II, 302. Cahjsteyia sepimn R. Br. Pmdr. 

 483 (1810); Boiss. Fl. orient. IV. Ill; Kotschy, Cypern, 285. 

 Climbing on shrubs at Chrysostomos (UK*. 



C. Dorycnium L. Sp. pi. ed. 2, 224 (1762): Boi.ss. Fl. orient. IV, 91 ; Clarke, Travels, VIII, 442; Kotschy, Cypern, 285. 



Dry fields in the lower regions, and especially very abundant in the central plains about Nikosia. 

 Chat OS (JH 842). Flowering in the summer. 



C. oleaefolius Desf. Encycl. Ill, 552 (1789); Boiss. Fl. orient. IV. 93: Kotschy, ("ypern, 28.5. 



Rocky places in the northern mountains as well as in the neighbourhood of Episkopi and Pissuri 

 (UK). Above Heptakomi (JH 519). 



C. cy prills Boiss. Fl. orient. IV, 93 (1879). C. Uneatus var. angnstifoUiis Kotschy, Cypern, 285 (1865); non C. 

 Uncatns L. nee C. angustifolius iJesr. 



Fissures of rocks at Capo Gatto, near the level of the sea (UK). Vidi specini. orig. in Herb. Boiss.! 



Xiite. C', undulatus Cav. (Icon, plant. Hisp. Ill, 39, tab. 277, 1; Boiss. Fl. orient. IV, 110) has been indicated for 

 the island under the name of C. evolruloides Desf. by Slbthorp, Prodr. I, 134. But as this species has not been collected in 

 the countries of the Levant by other botanists, the statement needs to be verified. C. evolvuhides Boiss., a Persian species, 

 different from Desfontaines' plant of the same name, is indicated for the monastery of Hag. Chrysostomos by Sintekis (in Oe 

 B. Z. XXXII, 19), hut its occurrence here seems very dubious. 



1) I do not know any place in Cyprus bearing- that name. Perhaps is meant the village of Aletliriko near Larnaka 

 or Alektora in the district of Limassol. 

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