List of Spontaneous Vascular plants, liitherto observed in Cyprus. 155 



Nepeta Troodi nov. sp. &\ Mussini Kotschy, (]ypern, 273 (1865); Siutenis et Rigo, Iter cypr. 1880, No. 723; 

 udu Heuck.— ?i\'. oricnfalis Po.st in Mém. Herb. Boiss. no. 18, 98 (1900); non Mill.— .?iV. Sibthorpii Thompson, Fl. Oypr. 336 

 (1906); uon Bentli. 



Perennis. Tota planta pil is al bis patulis mol liter ves tit a. Caulibus e rhizomate liKiiosa 

 multicauli, ca. 30 cm. lonois adscondentibus subsimplicibus. Foliis petiolatis triaiigulariter ovato-oordatis 

 obtuse crenatis, floralibus sensim diminutis, suramis bracteis brevioribus. Verticillastris 3— 6, inferioribus 

 valde disjunctis, superioribus approximatis. Bracteis herbaceis rigidis anguste lanceolatis 3-nerviis, 

 patule hirtis, sub.spinescente mueronatis, martiine non mcmbranaceis, calyces subaequantibus. Calycibus 

 patule hirtis, 15-nerviis, dentibus acuminatis vix obliquiis tubo subaequilongis. Corollis albis purpureo- 

 punctatis, calycibus sesquilongioribus, tubis vix exsertis. Nuculis minute tuberculatis. 



Our plant belongs to the section Stenoategiae Boiss., which includes so many reciprocally closely 

 related Oriental species. It is quite different from N. Mamni Henck., which has blue flowers and the 

 tube of its corolla much longer than the calyx; when Kotschy has refeired it to that species, it must 

 be on account of its erect hairiness, and may be well explained by his notice, that the plants seen by 

 him were yet sterile. To the same species has Sintenis referred his plant, which was collected richly 

 flowering at Prodromo in July, 1880; on the label of a specimen in Herb. Barbey-Boiss. Boissier has 

 altered the name into iV. orientcdis Mill., a species in the near vicinity of which our plant without doubt 

 appertains. But even from the latter species as well as from all others hitherto described it seems to be 

 specifically different. Very characteristical is tlie soft, erect hairiness of all its parts, its narrow, almost 

 lineal' bracts, which as well as the calyxes are covered with stiff erect hairs. N. orientuUs has broader 

 lanceolate bracts, generally with a single very strong rib, which passes into a stiff' spine; its bracts have 

 bi'oad membranaceous margins, which are only very finely ciliolate. 



Common in the upper part of the pine-forest on Troodos, ascending almost to the top of Chionistra 

 (UK 773!, SR 723!, JH 989).— Probably this is also the plant indicated for the "mountains of Cyprus" 

 by Post as N. orientalis and for Troodos by Thompson as N. Sihthurpii. 



N. Cataria L. Sp. pi. ed. 1, .570 (17.53); Boiss. Fl. orient. IV, 643; Kotschy, Cypern, 273. 

 Hill-sides, waste places. Piodromo and Paphos (UK). 



Brunelln vulgaris L. Sp. pi. ed. 1, 600 (1753); Gaudry, Recherches, 198; Boiss. Fl. orient. IV. 691; Kot.schy, 

 Cypern, 273. 



On the border of ditches, shady places. Palaeomylos (JH 914). 



Phlomis cypria Post in Mém. Herb. Boiss. no. 18, 99 (1900).— .i' PA. fruticnsa Thompson, Fl. Cypr. 337 (1906); non L. 



Although my plant does not, in some points, agree with the diagnosis given by Post, I still con- 

 sider it to belong to this species, both because it corresponds exactly to his description in several other 

 important characters, and because I have collected it just in tiie same place, where he has some years earlier 

 discovered his Ph. cypria. Here I will give a short description, based upon my material : 



Fruticosa, ramis crectis, adpres.se et stellatim pubescentibus. Foliis ovato-cordatis obtusis, bas i 

 rotundatis vel cordatis, subtus rugosis et dense canis, supra virentibus, breviter petiolatis, suinmis 

 subsessihbus. Verticillastro unico terminal! multifloro, foliis binis calyces superantibus suffulto. Bracteis 

 herbaceis non pungentibus, extus dense stellatim pubescentibus, intus adpresse lanatis, exterioribus 

 obovato-spathulatis acutiusculis, interioribus anguste lanceolatis acutis. Calycibus angulatis truncatis stellatim 

 pubescentibus, angulis et marginibus dentium hispidis, dentibus brevissimis in mucronem parvum 

 abeuntibus. Corollis Nuculis glabris. 



Belongs to the section Deudrophlomis Benth., wliei'o it may be placed in the neighbourhood of 

 Ph. fruticosa !>. It is chiefly characterized by the shape of the leaves, its solitary heads and tlie characters 

 of its bracts. 



