List of Spontaneous Vascular Plants, hitherto observed in Cyprus. 



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FI. orient. IV, 189. 





O. Troodi Kotschy, Cypern, 283 (186.5); Bois 



This is also an ende- 

 mical species; it is limited 

 to the highest parts of the 

 Troodos-mountains, where it 

 has been collected by Kotschy 

 and this author. It is yet im- 

 perfectly known, as the nutlets 

 have never been described; 

 even in my material they are 

 quite unripe.— Troodos, near 

 the Govei'ument Cottage in the 

 pine-forest (JH 876), on the 

 top of Chionistra(UK, JH 987). 



O. caespitosiiin Kot- 

 schy, Cypei-n, 282 (1865); Boiss. 

 Fl. orient. IV, 190 et Suppl. 351.— 

 Probabiliter: O. /'rutescens Thomps. 

 Fl. Cypr. 335 (1906); non Lam. 



Nuculis 3.5 mm. lon- 

 gis. 2.5 mm. latis, late ovatis, 

 suaviter carinatis, apice in 

 rostrum 1 mm. longum pro- 

 tractis, laevissimis, nitidis, 

 marmoratis. 



As the nutlets are not 

 described by the authors quoted 

 above, I have given here a 

 description of them. The fruits 

 show affinities to 0. nanmn 

 DC. and 0. velutinum Boiss., 

 in the vicinity of which Bois- 

 siER has also placed our spe- 

 cies. 0. mite Boiss., with 

 which Kotschy compares it, 

 belongs to quite another section 

 of the genus. 0. frutescens 

 Lam. has much larger nutlets 

 with less distinguished rostrum. 



To this species must 

 probably be referred Thomp- 

 son's 0. frutescens from Hag. 

 Hilarion, a place where I have 

 found 0. caespitosinn growing 

 abundantly. Besides by its 

 larger nutlets 0. frutescens 

 Lam. is different from our plant by several other characters mentioned by Boissiee ; the veritable 

 has not been indicated for Cyprus by other investigators. 



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Fig. 48. Orwsma Troodi Kotscliy (Vi). 

 a. Corolla, expanded (=/,).— fc. Calyx (-l,).—c. Leaf {^1,). 



0. frutescens 



