THE FLORA OF CYPRUS 271 
eleven hundred _ seventy, excluding plants of probable garden 
origin, and some others recorded by nee and Kotschy. The 
present paper se a list of these addition 
ry interesting summary of the contents of Unger and 
Kotschy’s book, by Mr. W. B. Hemsley, spect in the Gardeners’ 
Chronicle for 1878 (vol. x. pp. 75, 107, 183). 1 have made free use 
of notes 
My saad are also due to Mr. R. A. Rolfe for iigaiag «ihe orchids 
ions. 
Since the British occupation, commencing in 1878, several 
persons have collected plants in Cyprus, and Mir. Paul Sintenis, a 
German botanist, and Mr. Rigo made a journey from Larnaka 
across the island to Pentadactylon, and castard pte: a 
northern range of mountains to Cape hat 
diffuse account of this j ei peg 17th to Apel 28th, 1881) r runs 
t volumes (1881 and 1882) of the CM sterreichisc 
oe eee bt it was not completed, and there is no 
ary and n ns of easily ascertaining whether any im- 
what was 
h 
collection. About a dozen species of their aria ms described 
as new in Boissier’s Flora Orientaiis, Supplementum (18 
The most recent list of new Cyprus plants is ‘erg of ‘the Rev. 
George E. Post, entitled Plante Postiane, in the Bulletin de 
U’ Herbier Boissier for 1897, p. 755; 1899, p. 146; andin the Mémoires 
de U Herbier Boissier for 1900, p. 89. These lists comprise plants from 
other places in the Orient, but the Cyprian species are enum merated 
only in the years quoted above, and the great majority in 1900. 
Bost gives several species new to science, including Phlomis Cypria 
_ Bertram mi, but he appears to have overlooked Sintenis’s 
- n (st. Bot. Speen ., for several of his plants were pre- 
nae ore d by Sintenis; and no less than twenty were 
recorded by Boissier himeelt in the Flora Orientalis. 
_ Cyprus is forty-five miles distant from the nearest point of —m 
i i e 
miles towards the n 
The geological | celica range saree cretaceous to pliocene and 
pleistocene; and the igneous rocks, comprising serpen tine, variolite, 
abbro, &c., form a broad belt of aadeintias ground in the south 
central part of the island. 
he e two mountain ranges running more or less parallel to 
each olliek: ysis east to west. The northernmost range extends 
almost the whole — of the island from Cape Kormakites on the 
north-west to Cape Andreas at the head of the horn-like a 
pris kl maintioned: before. The _—- and western part of th 
northern range is called Kyrenia ; s caleareous, and rises ‘“ 
