j5g List of Spontaneous Vascular Plants, hitherto observed in Cyprus. 



What caused me at first to doubt the identity of my plant with Post's Ph. cypria. was especially his 

 description of the leaves, which are said to be "oblongo-lanceolatis, acutiusculis". Probably his specimens 

 have not been well developed. 



Endemical in Cyprus, where it has hitherto only been found among the ruins of the old castle 

 of Hag-. Hilarion, growing in rocky places. (Post, JH 821).— According to Thompson Ph. fndicosa has 

 been found in Cyprus by Sintenis; I have not seen the plant collected by him, and therefore cannot 

 decide, whether it belongs to Ph. cypria. 



Ph. riscosa Poir. Diet. V. 271 (18e:4); Boiss. Fl. orient. IV. 788; Kotschy, Cypern, 27.5. 

 Dry hillsides. Between Limassol and Omodos (Kotscht Suppl. 464!). 



Ph. Innariaefolia Sibth. et Smith, Prodr. I, 414 (1806); Boiss. Fl. orient. IV, 785 (p. p.); Kotschy, Cypern, 275; 

 Thompson in Annals of Bot. XIV (1905) 440 et in Journ. of Bot. 1906, 3.37. 



This species, which was probably originally discovered in Cyprus by Sibthorp, has been misinter- 

 preted by most authors; its affinities and synonymy are clearly shown by H. >S. Thompson in a paper 

 published in 1905. 



The principal reason of the confusion is very likely the fact, that the species is said by Sibthorp and 

 Smith to grow not in Cyprus but in the Peloponnesus and the Mount Athos. Fi-om these places it 

 has never been recorded after Sibthorp's time, and Halacsy in his Conspectus Florae Graecae (II, 509), 

 therefoi'e, simply quotes the description of Sibthorp and says, that the species is unknown to modern authors. 



Fortunately Sibthorp's type-specimen is still preserved in the herbarium of the Oxford University; 

 it has appeared to be identical with a plant occurring in Cyprus, and we may consequently assume, that 

 also Sibthorp has collected his specimen in this island, and that his statement concerning the finding- 

 place is due to some error. 



In the "Flora orien talis" Bossier has identified with Ph. lunariae folia a closely related plant 

 from Lycia (Bouegeau, Plant. Lye. No. 296, 1860), which he had formerly on labels named Ph. imbrkata, 

 but of which he has never published any description. As Thompson has pointed out, the latter plant 

 differs from Ph. hinariaefolia in several important characters, and it is surely a good species, to which 

 Thompson has given the name Ph. grandiflora. I have compared both plants in the Herbier Boissier, 

 where the Cyprian plant is represented by three flowering branches from the Khrysokhu-valley (UK 678), 

 and I quite agree with Thompson's opinion. It can be distinctly seen, that the description of "Ph. 

 hinariaefolia" in the Flora orientalis has been worked out upon the specimens of Ph. grandifora from 

 Elmalu in Lycia (leg. Bourgeau). A plant quite agreeing with the veritable Cyprian Ph. hinariaefolia, 

 from Anamour in Cilicia (leg. Péronin), is kept in the Herbier Boissier. 



Boissier has placed our plant immediately behind Ph. fruticosa L., among the species with 

 "Bracteae non pungentes". In fact, this is the case with Ph. grandiflora, but not with Ph. lunariaefolia, 

 the bracts of which species being elongated into stiff prickly spines. Much nearer than with Ph. fruticosa 

 our species seems to be related with Ph. riticosa Poir. 



On dry, sunny hill-sides, together with maquis-shrubs, in the western part of the island: Chrysokhu') 

 (UK 678!, probably also collected here by Sibthorp), Tsada in the district of Paphos (JH 737). Also 

 collected by Miss Samson in 1904 (locality not mentioned). 



Note. Ph Bertrand Post does- not, as indicated by Thompson (F1. Cyprus 271 and 337), grow in Cyprus Init on 

 Lebanon, according to the statement of its author in Mém. Herb. Boiss. No. 18, 1900, p. 98. 



Lamium auiplexicaule L. Sp. pi. ed. 1, 579 (1753); Boiss. Fl. orient. IV, 760; Kotschy, Cypern, 273. 

 Cultivated fields. Hag. Napa, Prodromo (UK). 



lu Fl. orient, 1. c, Boissier by some error says, that (,'lirysokhu is situated on Rhodes. 



