52 AN ACCOUNT OF VELEZIA, 
wa pia a maculata, ungue se Capsula inclusa, calyce 
brev Semina nigra oblongo-ova 
fabi tu V. rigide ‘similis, sed robin ; specifice diversa calyce 
costato, ac petalorum margine et fauc 
Specimens found aes Dumont d’ area in the island of Astro- 
palia in 1820, and named by him J. clavata, are identical with this 
plant. The original ok description” of V. pore is, “* Calycibus 
pd ta glabris, petalis quadridentatis.’’ Sibthorp’s own specimens 
n Herb. Mus. Brit. are labelled ‘ Saponaria pathuiica,” which 
soit to imply that he thought the plant came from the isle of 
Patmos. he Aes Saher are not ‘“ovatis apice subulatis,” as 
stated Hef Bois 
Lycta Wi lia ms. 
M: agis glandulosa. Calyx valde glandulosus, pilis sparsis pre- 
sertim ad costas Rhee (V. quadridentata Stapf, Beitr. fl. Lycien, 
Carien, Mesopotamien.) 
The type- apeottiionis of this var. are in the Vienna Herbarium. 
se acer Distribution. 
Austria.—Dalmatia (Visian 
REECcE.—Nome of Corin th: between Nauplia and Port Tolon 
(Haussknecht, 1885). Nome of Attica: Mt. Parnassus at 600 metres 
(Heldreich, Herb. Grec. norm. no "693 ), where it grows with J. 
rigida, east side of the island of Zgina (Heldreich). Nome of the 
Cyclades : ian « aS yra (Baise). 
Asiatic Turk Ratan lia, the Rett Turkish island of the 
Cyclades group (Uri, 1820). Anatolia: Smyrna (Balansa, Pl. 
d’Orient, no, 118), Tralles ( ral river banks nr. Chertek 
(Stapf ),—var. 2: at Gjélbaschi (Stapf). 
4, V. uispma Boiss. et Bal. in Boiss. Diagn. Pl. Or. nov. Ser. ii. 
y. 57 (1859); FI. Orient, i. 479. 
landuloso- -hispidula, a basi (radice subramosa) divaricatim 
perramosa, ramis alternis et dichotomis. Folia lineari-lanceolata 
acuta stricta, inferiora 3-5-nervia, superiora 3-nervia. Fasciculi 
2.-8-flori et flores inferiores solitarii, pedicellis crassis calyce 2-4- 
plo brevioribus ; .pedicelli bracteis subulatis instructi. Calyx 
breviter eylindricus basi attenuatus costato-nervosus viridis demum 
rubellus acute —_—- coriaceus, costis rotundatis trinerviis 
intervallo membranaceo sejunctis, dentibus subulatis acutatis sub- 
divergentibus. Potala acute bifida, fauce nuda. Capsula calyce 
subbrevior. Semina oblon 
Species precedent atque y. fasciculata affinis, petalorum forma 
omunino dist 
ag son species cited by Boissier are in Herb. 
Kew. and Herb. Mus. B +, and Se above description is based on 
the examination of thoes, ea 
Habitat. Asiatic Turxey, Be ee olia: orchards on Mt, Boz-dagh 
es (Balansa, P. d’Orient, no. ee rani 
alana] we d’Orient, i 117 [1854] ), and hills = Ushak at 
900 n argillaceous 
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