270 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
THE FLORA OF CYPRUS. 
By Harotp Sruart Tuompson, F.L.S. 
A COLLECTION Of about three hundred flowering plants made in 
Cyprus in 1900, 1901, and 1902 by Mr. A. G. and Miss M. E. 
Lascelles was presented to Kew, and in vate : compared and 
named the specimens under Dr. Stapf’s supervi It comprised 
at least forty-four species hitherto unrecorded Beis ‘the Suleads and 
a considerably larger number which were not recorded from Cyprus 
in Boissier’s Flora Orientalis (1867-1884), and the Sapplatiiers of 
888. 
Several of the new plants in the Lascelles’ collection also ap- 
ed in a small collection of about one hundred and forty species, 
made in Cyprus, i in 1904, by Miss E. A. Samson, which I subse- 
quently examined; and Miss Samson added two more species 
(weeds of cultivation) new to the island, viz. Silene Gallica L. and 
Chenopodium rubrum L. She also o gather red Phlomis lunarifolia 
Sibth. & Smith, which, though recorded by Drs. vee and Kotschy 
(Die Insel Cypern, p. 275), from near pe pes n Cyprus, is a 
plant which has been little understood and m Rei ae with 
other species since its Soe by Sibthory:: sa Smith in their 
Prodromus Flore Grece in 1806.* 
It may be useful ¢ val. a few facts about the ha genic 
climate, and physical features of the island of Cyprus, and u 
vegetation generally ; and also to give a brief sketch of its fg Se 
history tate prot te aac 
, & considerable roe of the bea s of the 
Flora Grace represent C ] fieens, the oe numbe: 
of flowering plants and tins recorded from t d in the 
Flora Grece and the Flore Grace Prodromus together did not 
exceed three hundred and thirteen species. Two hundred and four 
genera and three hundred and thirty species of phanerogams were 
recorded in 1842 by Joseph Poesch in his Hnumeratio Plantarum 
hucusque ve ese i oe Cypri, an octavo pamphlet of forty-two 
pages, published at 
But we must dies. to the mgr ah mgpege work on the natural 
history of the island by Unger and Kotschy—Die Insel _ 
(1865)—for me approaching a complete list of the 
plants. About (Said and esc species of pbanerogats 
and vascular c: actuben were enumerated, but, if we exclude 
doubtful species and inn 3 sldivated ‘plants imaluded by Unger 
and Kotschy, probably there would remain only about one thousand 
* See Annals of Botany, xiv. 439. 
