466 TRANS. OF THE ACAD. OF SCIENCE. 
ern Asiatic form, which I had formerly distinguished under 
the name of C. cupulata, occurs in the Caucasus, the Altai, 
and, as it s — throughout Siberia, (Ledebour! Godet! 
Becker! Karelin! 1721, etc.) ; flowers smaller in dense but 
small heads; calyx large, loose, almost entire, with broad and 
gh lobes ; ’seales comparatively large and incurved. 
. SCHIRAZIANA; C. Schiraziana, Boissier! diag. or. 1.9, 
86, Nas loose and few flowered heads, rather membranaceous 
flowers with the lobes of the deeply divided calyx and the 
lacinie long and acute. The specimens examined by me, the 
same that Boissier described, were collected in Persia by 
Kotschy! and aogier under 118 and 318. In some the 
t. 
x, Wess; C. Episonchum, feo Phyt. Canar. — 
p- Me = 141; C. Epiploca amum, Webb in Pl. 
been introduced there. I, has been collected by. Ne 
be wcigel 18, 426, 459, 1430; Dela cn Re 
others. T have see n the same form from Po: , 
Welwitsch! 192—In nO ia the lobes of 
the onl se who recognized Tenore’s plant; pom 
er suthor has bestowed the niishe on some other a 
br lant or on some other species. C. planifiora, K forms of 
a "ph —— Fl. Germ. exsicc. nro. 2069, in Sic! 
DesM. of “saat anton but not ® curt 
| Lae ‘Et. 41, is a genus founded on 
: specimen of the same plant ;  C._Epithymus n, Gussone 
