(12) F. N. WILLIAMS. REVISION OF THE GENUS HERNIAUIA. 567 



Syn. H. fruticosa (non Linn.) Desf. Fl. AUanüca, I, p. 213. 

 Hab. Marocco. 



17. H. fruticosa Lœfl. Resa Spansk. Land., p. 128 (1758), et Linn. 

 Sp. Plant, (ed. II), p. 317; Ledeb. Fl. Rossica, II, p. 161; Willk. et Lge. 

 Prodr., III, p. ISl. — Perennis, suffruticosa, glaucescens vel cinereo- 

 virens. Caiidex crassus cinereo-corticatus perramosus. Gaules 7-15 cm.; 

 ranii tomentelli, foliorum fasciculis dense vestiti. Folia plerumque fas- 

 ciculata parvula ovata vel ovato-elliptica obtusa glabra crassa plana dis- 

 sila, ex axillis foliorum juniorum fasciculos vel ramulos abbreviatos 

 foliosos edentia. Flores dense glomerati, glomerulis foliorum fasciculos 

 aemulantibus secus ramulos racemosis. Calyx puberulus; segmenta ovata 

 crassa insequalia. Stamina 4. Styli 2 liberi. 



ß. recurvifolia Willk. Pugill. Plant., p. 99; Willk. et Lge. Prodr., III, 

 p. 151. — Caudiculi magis foliosi. Ramuli glabrescentes. Folia majora 

 elliptica vel elliptico-lanceolata apice recurvata. Calyx glaberrimus. 



Hab. Catalonia; and near Aranjuez in New Gastile {Winkler, 1876). 



Y. erecta Willk. Pugill. Plant., p. 99; Willk. et Lge. Prodr., III, p. 151. 



— Caudiculi ramulique plus minus erecti, ramulis strictis fastigialis. 

 Folia magis dissita crassiora, obovata vel obovato-oblonga , inferiora 

 reflexa, omnia hispidula; stipulée purpureee. Glomeruli paullum remoti, 

 laxe racemosi. 



Hab. S. Aragon and Murcia, 



Geogr. area. S. Aragon, New Gastile, Catalonia, Yalentia, Murcia and 

 Granada; Algeria, Marocco (Oasis d'Akka, Cosson, 1872). — Lœfling's 

 original spécimens were from near Aranjuez, in prov. of New Gastile. 



Sectio IL PARONYCHIELLA 



SuBSEGT. I. — FLORES PENTAMERI, HERMAPHRODITI 



18. H. Argaea Boiss. Fl. Orient., I, p. 741. — Pumila, perennans. 

 Gaules teretes parce retrorsum puberuli. Folia obovata obtusa glabra, 

 interdum margine ciliata, breviter petiolata. Flores subsessiles in glome- 

 rulos approximatos 7-10-floros dispositi. Calyx hispidus et strigoso- 

 ciliatus; segmenta ovato-lanceolata fere œqualia. Stylus brevis, stigmate 

 capilato-bilobo. 



Forma approximata (1), Bornmüller, PI. AnatoUae Orientalis, 1890, 

 no 1982. — Folia et flores approximati. 

 Forma distans (2), Bornmüller, PI. AnatoUae Orientalis, 1890, n^ 3110.. 



— Folia distantia; flores minus approximati glomeratique. 



