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62. A variety of nucrosia anethifolia Boiss., from 



Baluchistan. 



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By I. H. BuRKiLL. 



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Fruits of Ducrosia anethifolia, Boiss. Fig. 1, after Jaubert and 

 X 3. Fig. 2, from Dr. Stapfs plant, X 3. Fig. 3, var. Jamtatii^ X 3. 

 Tnericarp of var. Jamiatn in section at the middle, x 14. 



Spach^ 



Fig. 4, 



Ducrosia anethifolia was described as Zozimia anethifolia 

 by De Candolle in his Prodromus, iv. (1830), p. 196, from- 

 specimens collected by Olivier and Bruguiere between Teheran 

 and Ispahan. The name now adopted, i.e., Ducrosia anethifolia^ 

 was given by Boissier in the Annales des Sciences Naturelles^ 

 3me Serie, i. (1844) p. 342; and he identified Aucher-Eloy's nos. 

 3596 and 4577 from Ispahan with Olivier and Bruguiere's 

 specimens collected about Teheian and Ispahan. At the same 

 time he described Ducrosia flabellifolia based on Olivier and 

 Bruguiere's specimens from between Bagdad and Alep and 

 Aucher-Eloy's no. 3729 from the deserts of Assyria, as they 

 differed in leaf somewhat. Jaubert and Spach in their Illus- 

 trationes Plantarum Orientalium, iii., Paris, 18471850, tjib. 238, 

 united the two species of Boissier under the name Zozimia 

 avethifolia : but Boissier in his Flora Orientalis, ii., 1872, p. 1036, 

 says that Jaubert and Spach 's figure is of his Ducrosia anethi- 

 folia^ and not of D. Jlahellifolia. 



A bit of Jaubert and Spach's illustration is reproduced as 

 no. 1 of the figures above, A fruit from a plant collected in 

 Persia on Kuh Sofali near Ispahan by Dr. 0. Stapf is figuied 



