List of Spontaneous Vascular Plants, liitlierto observed in Cyprus. igi 



S. vulgaris Fritsch, Excursionsfl. v. Oesterr. 477 (1897). Clinopodium mdgare. L. Sp. plant, ed. 1, 587 (1753). 

 Melissa Clinopodium Bentli. Lab. Gen. et Sp., 392 <1832-.36); Poecb, Enum. plant. Cypr., 24. Calaminihn Clinopodium -RmtXx. 

 in IK'. Prodr. XTI, 233 (1848); Boiss. Fl. orient. IV, 579; Kotscliy, Cypern, 271. 



Shady places in the pine-forests of the Troodos-rang-e, not rare. Yalia (JH 803). 



S. Troodi iiov. uomb. Calamintka Troodi Post in Mém. Herb. Boiss. No. 18. 97 (1900). 



Perennis, suffruticosa, pusilla, ramosissima. Ramis fragilibus, inlrieatis, adseendentibus, inferne 

 radicantibus, brevissime pubescentibus. Foliis omnibus simillibus, minutis, ca. 4 mm. long-is, late 

 ovatis, obtusis vel interdum parum acuminatis, integris, arcuatim nervosis, undique minutissime pu- 

 bescentibus, petiolatis; petiolis lamina subaequantibus. Verticillastro solitario terminali paucifloro. 

 Calycibus breviter stipitatis, ca. 7 mm. longis, parum curvatis, subteretibus, brevissime vclutinis; den- 

 tibus hispidociliatis, inferioribus 2 mm. longis superioribus sesquilongloribus. Corollis pallide roseis, usque 

 ad 19 mm. longis, calyce subtriplo longioribus. 



Although I have not had any opportunity to see any authentical specimen of Post's plant, there 

 cannot be any doubt as to the identity of my plant with that described by him. As shown by Briquet 

 (Lab. Alp. Maritim., 411 sequ.) Calamintha Moench cannot be considered as more than a section of the 

 genus Satureia L., and the name of our plant must therefore be altered into S. Troodi. 



Post's discovery of this plant in Cyprus is most interesting. S. Troodi appertains to the subsection 

 of Aeinos Moench, and should be placed near S. Corsica Briquet (= Cal. Corsica Benth.), which grows 

 in the mountains of Corsica. From that species it differs by the prominent nervature of the leaves, the 

 short pubescense of branches, leaves and calyx (hardly visible without the use of a lens), considerably 

 larger flowers, etc. 



Among the Oriental species of the genus 5'. pipcrelloides [nov. comb. = Calamintha jyiperelloides 

 Stapf in Denkschr. kais. Akad. Wiss. Math.-naturw. CI. L, 23 (1883)] is probably nearest related to 

 our plant. In the herbarium of the University at Vienna I have seen Staff's type-specimens of S. piper- 

 elloides, collected at Golbaschi in Lycia 1882 by Dr. Luschan; however, the growth is considerably taller 

 than in S. Troodi and all parts larger (length of leaves 7— 9 mm., calyx 10-11 mm., corolla 25—28 mm.), 

 and the leaves are more protracted and distinctly dentate. Furthermore there are generally two distinct 

 verticillastres in the inflorescenses, and especially it should be noticed, that 5. pipcrelloides has no such 

 row of stiff white hairs inside the opening, of the calyx, as exists in both S. Corsica and S. Troudi. 



On the summit of Chionistra, ca. 1950 m. above the sea, growing rather scarcely among the stones 

 (Post, .JH 1087). Flowering in July. 



S. exigua nov. comb. S. rotundifolia Briquet, Lab. Alp. Maritim. 453 (1895). Thymus exiguus Sibtli. et Smith, Prodr. 

 Fl. tlraee. I, 421 (1806); Fl. Liraec. VI, 61, tab. .575. Aeinos rotnndifnlius Pers. Syn. IT, 131 (1807), teste Briquet. Thymus 

 yravcolens Biebst. Fl. Taur.-cauc. II, 60 (1808). Ccdamintlia grfirentens Benth. in !)(_'. Prodr. XII, 221 (1848): Boiss. Fl. orient. 

 IV, 583; Kotsohy, Cypern, 271. 



var. integrifolia (Boiss, in herb.). 



Humilior, foliis integerrimis. 



To this variety, which also occurs in Crete, belong the specimens collected in Cypi'us by Sibthokp 

 (Fl. Graec. tab. 575), Kotsohy (UK 7621), Sintenis (SR 737!) and myself (JH 982). 



Rocky places, among stones and gravel. Beyond Trooditissa (UK), top of Chionisti-a (UK, SR, JH). 



Thymhra spicatn L. Sp. pi. ed. 1, 569 (1753); Boiss. Fl. orient. IV, 561; Kotsdiy, Cypern, 272; Thomps. Fl. Cypr. 

 336. Th. amhigua Clarke, Travels, IV, 239 (1817). 



Dry hills in lower regions, already mentioned by Clarke. Prodrome (UK). 



Origanum c or di folium Voyel in Limiea, XV, 76 (1841); Boiss. Fl. orient. IV, .548; Post in Item. Herb. Boiss. 

 19(J0. Xo. 18, 97. Amnracus cordifolius llontbr. et Aueh. apud Bentham in Ann. Sciences Nat. Ser. 2, VI, 43 (1836). 



According to Bentham this species was discovered in Cyprus 1831 by Aucher-Eloy (Auch.no. 

 1656 in Herb. Hook.). On the label in Herb. Boiss., bearing the same numero, is written "Syria" ; but 



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