List of Spontaneous Vascular Plants, liitlicrto oliscrved in Cyprus. 187 



O. insignc nov. sp. 



liicniii.s. (Icn.sc albo-toiiicn tosa. Caulc elato, obtu.saii,oiilo, ad 1 m. alto, supenic brcvitcr 

 rainoso ut et rami ali.s multis angusti.s crebciTiinc Havido-spinosis, paruin lobulati.s. Foliis basalibu.s clliptici.'^ 

 brevitcr pctiolatis, argute lobatis, lobis triangularibus, acutis, marginc uiidulatis, crebre spinis flavi.'^ 

 validis inarginati.s; caulinLs valde diminuti.s, scs.silibus, angu.stioiibus; supremis numerosi.s, minutis, basin 

 involucri arete bracteantibus. Capitulis majusculis, globo.sis, diametre (sine spinis) 3..5— 4..t cm., 

 subtus convexis. Phylli.s involucri exterioribus a basi late ovata adpressa tomentosa abrupte in spinam 

 ad .'J.-T cm. longam, fortem, patule recur vat am contracli.s, margine ot intus scabris; interioribus brcvi- 

 oribus, erectis, sensim attcnuatis, margine .scabris, minus pungentibus. Achciiiis tetragono-compressis, acute 

 costatis, transverse rugosis. Wetis pappi bi'cviter ramosis. 



This beautiful specie.s I only know from the examination of a single specimen, which has been 

 collected by myself in dry slopes near Hag. Theodoros in the di.strict of Limassol. I found it there, 

 growing in rathci' great abundance, together with Sanijiii.'<orha sphwsa, Tlnjmus cajntutus, etc., flowei-ing 

 in the beginning of July (.IH 1008). 



According to my opinion the present plant has, on account of the abruptly narrowed exterior 

 involucral spines, nearest aftinities to (>. Sihtlioi-piniun» Hoiss. ct Hcldr. and (J. mjriacum Holmboe [in 

 Bull. Herb. Boiss. Sér. 2, VU, 827 (l'J07)J. E.specially it seems to come near to the latter species, from 

 which it is, however, sufficiently distinguished through its stronger growth, more densely sitting .spines, 

 considerably larger heads, coarser involucral spines, and particularly through the existence of several short, 

 nari'ow bracts immediately below the heads. Because of the latter character it seems natural to compai'e 

 it with 0. Bui'yf^icri Freyn et Hintenis and 0. hyactcatum Boiss, ct Heldr. But from 0. Doiasicii, a species 

 which I only know from Frevn's detailed description, it differs much through the shape of the leaves, which 

 are in that species indicated to be pinnatipartite, and thiough the pappus-rays which arc described as 

 almost feathery ("subplumosis"). And from O. liracteafitm it is distinctly difterent through its abruptly 

 narrowed involucral spines, as well as through the shortness of the interior spines. In 0. hraefcatmn ail 

 the involucral spines are successively narrowed, and the innermost ones are of the length of the flowers. 



Criipina Criipinastruin \'isiaii. I'l. Dulm. II. 42. tali, .'il (1847); Roiss. Kl. oriiMit. III. (iliit. C. ndiiayh \\'A^'\\\. 

 Cypcni. -IXi (IHti.o); Thiuiips. Fl. I 'vpr. 16 (viili sijeiim. autlicut. ! ); mm Cass. Ccntauicn ( rupinadi-um Moris. Knuiu. smnin. 

 liort. Taur.. \-> (1842). 



Dry hills, common. Nikosia (.TH 28(5), Kalop.syda (,JH 402). 



Serratiila vcriuthefolia Boiss. Fl. orient. Ill, .58.5 (1875). .V. Bclien Lam. III. d. -cnrcs. III. 242. tali. ii«6 

 (182:il. N. (ordcita Cass, in Diet, sciences natur. L, 468(1827); Kotschy, Cyperu, 248. Ccntaiirea ccrinthefoUa Silitli. et Smith, 

 Prodr. II. 197 (1813).— Hue probahiliter etiam pertiuet Centnurea Behen Silrth. et Smith, Prodr. II, 199 (181.3); Kotschy. Cypern, 

 244: Thcnnps(jn. Fl. Cypr. 16; non L. 



As far as I can see the combination of names "Scrr. m-'inthefolui' does not occur earlier than 

 in Boissier's Flora orientalis, although .Sihthuiu' and Smith both there and in the "Index Kewensis" are 

 erroneously (juotcd as authors. -There can hardly be any doubt, that this is the " Cenianrea Behen" , which 

 SiBTHORP saw at Fontana amorosa in the peninsula of Akamas on May 1.3th, 1787. This is made probable 

 as well by his remarks on the near affinities between his C'. Behen and C. cerinthefoHa as from the fact, 

 that S. cerinthefoHa grows very frequently in the said locality. The true ('. Behen L., which grows in 

 Asia Minor, is not yet known from Cyprus. 



Dry hills and vine-yards, rather frequent. Akamas (.fH 780), Pano Panagia (JH 1057). 



Centaurea eretiea Nyman, Syll. .34 (1854 55). C. imniiln Clarke. Travels, VIII, 441 (1818); (iaudry, Kecherehes, 

 188; mm L. Acijialopkila cretica Boi.ss. et Heldr. DiaKU. plant, orient. Sér. 1, X. 106 (1849); Fl. orient. Ill, 704; Kotschy, 

 Cypern, 245; Hornui. in Verli. zool. hot. (ies. Wien, XLVIII, 605. Ae. pumila Kotschy. Cypirn. 245 (1865); Roiss. Fl. orient. 

 Suiipl. 317: noil alibi.— .*'C?/Ha)fl! acaulis Sibth. et Smith, Prodr. 11. 158 (1813); mm L. 



