AN ACCOUNT OF VELEZIA. 31 
Ksemma, Adjida (Battandier and Trabut), Hammah (Jamin, Pl. 
d’Alg. 1851, No. 184). Dept. of Oran: Arzeu (Mund). 
Si iasis o.—Agadir, on the west coast, the western limit of the 
a. (Hooker, 1871). 
This is as full a list of localities and authorities as is desirable 
for hoiiving the general distribution of the species, from Marocco 
st. ; 
specimens from Piedmont, Campania, Albania, most of the 
Russian specimens, especially those from Crimea and the Caucasus, 
and Griffith’s specimens from Afghanistan. In the specimens 
from the south of France, Sicily, and Marocco, the longer peduncles 
“eS the flowers are more noticeable. 
y + coche ae Diagn. Pl. Or. noy. Ser. i. viii. 92 
(1849) ; Fl. Orient. i. 478. 
Glanduloso- hispida, 10-15 centim. Caulis supra basin dichotome 
ramosus. Folia pene: rigida acuta ciliata subtus trinervia. 
Flores ad ramorum brevium apicem in fasciculos 5-9-floros congesti. 
Calyx cylindricus, ube t liter 15-nervius, dentibus lanceolato- 
linearibus inequalibus acuminatis. Fatale angusissime linearia 
pallide Se saturatius trilineata apice retusa; lamina minima, 
fauce nuda imbe itor a oe calyce patie. ‘dagen Semina 
demum sie oblon 
1: . “1. 
imberbias: aye ravater a minus tenuis et pel brevior ; semina 
Ips type-specimens the calyx-teeth do not seem to be ‘‘ breviter 
Rain = as stated by Boissier, but the calyx is somewhat shorter 
than in V. rigida. In a medium capsule I found eight seeds, and 
under the lens the hilum of the seed seemed almost at the edge, 
more so than in the seeds of V. rigida. The structure of the petals 
is well seen in a eo “ie by E. Desvaux attached to 
Ww 
Blanche’s specimen in H ew. The coloured lines are con- 
tinued a. down to the oon of the claw. 
it.—Asiatico Turkey. Vilayet of Anatolia: Valley of 
Meanad’. near the ruins of Denisin Aassdiben, in Phrygia) ( Boissier, 
1842). Vilayet of Acre: between Beiriit and Brummana in the 
Lebanon (Blanche, 1849). Vilayet of Tripoli: between the R. 
Orontes and the town of Latakiyeh (Laodicea, in Syria) ( Boissier, 
1 
eae Sibth. € Sm. Fl. Greec. Prodr. i. 283 (1806), 
et Fi. Grieea . 81, t. 391 (1823); Boiss. Fl. Orient. i. 478; 
Williams, Pinks | of Ce ntr, Eur. 3. 
ar anduloso- ene aE vel rarius glabra, 10-15 centim. 
Caulis sich seepe inde a basi subdichotome divaricato-ramosus. 
olia inst nervia citsiie basilaria rosulata peacoat ater cau- 
lina anguste linearia longe acutata, subfloralia margine hyali 
distinetins ciliata. Flores solitarii vel gemini et terni, pedicellis 
crassis calyce dimidio triplove cing suffulti. Calyx oblongo- 
cylindricus 5-costatus glaber, costis approximatis carinato-sub- 
trinerviis, denti bus lanceolati tis rectis apice ais to-acuminatis. 
Peta gua apice , dentibus lateralibus — 
