(5) FREDERIC NEWTON WILLIAMS. GENRE RHODALS1NE GAY. O 



drica. sepalis in statu fructifère» conniventibus occulta, iu valvas 3 dehis- 

 cens : valvae ovato-lanceolatœ obtusre énerves leevissinise non granulatse 

 etiain margine tenues haud incrassata?. Seruina plermnque pauca 7-9, 

 interduni plures 17-25, vix 2 / 3 mm. diani. majore, faciebus concava, 

 dorso auguste canaliculata, ferrugineo-rufescentia. niinutini transverse 

 rugulosa : testa tenaciter dura laevis ; funiculi brèves lineares laniellati 

 hyalini. nervo tenui brevi inscripti. Embryo teres hippocrepideus. 

 albumen semipellucidum cingens : cotyledones longitudine radieuhe, 

 aequilongae. 



Syn. Cherieria sedoides (non Linn.) Forsk. FI. Aegypt. Arab. p. 66 (1775). 



Arenaria peploides {non Linn.) Ucria, Hort. Panorm. p. 187 (1789). 



Arenaria procuinbens, Vahl, Syrnb. Bot. II, p. 50, t. 33 (1791); Willd. Sp. 

 Plant. II, p. 720; Cand. Prodr. I. p. 413, n. 129; Bertol. FI. Ital. IV, p. 663: 

 Jacks. Ind. Kew. I. p. 180. 



Arenaria rosea, Presl, FI. Sicula, p. 165 (1826). 



Alsine procurnbens, Fenzl, Geogr. Yerbreit. Alsin. p. 57 (1833); Webb, II. 

 Hispan. p. 62 (1838) ; Bous. Voy. Bot. Esp. fasc. V, p. 97 (1840) ; Guss. Enmn. 

 pi. Inarim. p. 52 (1855); Boiss. FI. Orient. I, p. 671 (1867); Arno, Fl. 

 fanerog. Iber. VI, p 133 (1873); Willk. et Lge. Prodr. fl. Hisp. III, p. 613 

 (1878): Tarifant in Pari. Fl. Italiana, IX, p. 607 (1892). 



Alsine rosea. Nijm. Gonsp. fl. Eut. p. 119 (1878). 



Iconogr. Vahl, Symb. Bot. IL p. 50. t. 33 (1791); Willk. le. descr. PL rar. 

 Hisp. I. p. 104, t. 670 B. (1853). 



GEOGBAPHICAL DISTBIBUTIO.X 



Canary Islands. — Lanzarote (Bourgeau, PI. Canar. 1845, n. 301). 



Spaix. — On sandy and rocky soil in waste places, often near the sea. Prov. 

 of Catalonia. near Prats de Hey (/. Puiggari). Prov. of Valencia, at the foot of 

 Ml. Hifac (Lacaita, 1884). Prov. of Alnrcia, near Alhama, and on theCerro del 

 Pino, near Hellin (Rony), Sierra de Pedro Ponce (A. Guirao). Prov. of Anda- 

 lusia, Cabo de Gâta (Lange), near Granada (Webb), Motril, Malaga and Estepona 

 (Boissier). isthmus of Cadiz (Lange). 



Gibraltar. — (Lemann exs. 1841 ; Kelaart, Fl. Calpensis, p. 85 [1846]). 



Maltese Islands. — Malta (Groves, herb.). Gozo (/. F. Duthie, 1874, in 

 Herb. Kew and Herb. Mus. Brit.). 



Italv. — On rocky aud sandy soil near the sea in the soutlipart of thepenin- 

 sula, in Sicily and Sardinia, also in several small islands. In Campania (Tenore). 

 Island of Ischia (Gussone). Beggio in Calabria (Bertoloni) Sicily, Mt. Etna 

 {Strobl, 1883) (Presl), at Palermo (Pariatore), near Messina (Nicotra Prodr. fl. 

 Messanensis [1878-84]), Scoglitti (Ajuli), Trapani (Lojacono). In the islaüds of 



