THE FLORA OF CYPRUS 273 
Quercus alnifolia, Arbutus Andrachne, and Acer ereticum are ofte 
associated with it as underwood. Few flowering plants fiducisti 
Peonia corallina. Juniperus fetidissina and Berberis cretica grow 
among the pines on or near the summit of Troodos. Cupressus 
horizontalis and Juniperus hastens nots rapidly disappearing as 
forest t trees, though the latter spreads as a shrub when the mari- 
ti makes room for it. Quercus inermis and 0. Cypria, the 
only arborescent kinds of: oak, are no ite rare as trees; while 
Platanus orientalis and Alnus orientalis grow only by the side of 
ams. 
Sir Sa muel Baker in 1879 communicated to Sir J. D. Hooker 
from the other known forms of cedar in the shortness of the leaves 
and the smallness of the ona —- An ao cot Fao 
by Sir Joseph Hooker appeared in the int vara of th 
Society, xvii. 517 (1879). Sir ‘taal a, also ee ore 
discovery of two species of cypress in 1879, one having a cedar- 
coloured timber, with a powerful aromatic pean fe the other was 
an intensely hard wood resemblin g lignum vite. Neither tree 
attains a greater height than 3 
t appears that still more ae attention should be paid to 
the forests and forest wt of nigger ols ey ay measures 
have been taken to prevent the evils of form r da ays from the 
ravages of goats and the eeeibtion “of piteh. Until recently it was 
the custom to burn the brushwood and herbage in order to get 
fresh sae as manuring and thorough tillage were hardly known; 
and these fires often extended to the forests, doing enormous 
dama 
The general character of the flora is Mediterranean, as distin- 
guished from Syrian; or, according to Mr. Geo. E. Post, it isa 
mixture of the plants of ae Cilicia, and Pamphylia. But the 
_— period the island has been separated from the mainland has 
aused the development of a fairly large number of endemic ran 
which are found almost entirely in the mountains. The flora 
the central plain is much the same as that at ne Ones ne of 
Syria. The snare of gives leaved tr n Cyp s note- 
worthy, whereas in Syria these are peer cist oe flat. ae ed 
trees. 
er and Kotschy recorded forty-two endemic plants in Cyprus, 
inelaii varieties. al of these have since been re else- 
her the Orient, but other new aac particularly 
discovered by Mr. Post, take their place; so that now, even if wé 
exclude several names which are not wor siley of specific rank, there 
are at least fifty-five good species ——— to be peculiar to 
island. An asterisk precedes the endemic species in the list of 
edaitinn This compares with the fifty species es eS in ~ 
Balearic Isles in the West of the Mediterranean ; with o: 
hundred and thirty. eight species endemic in Sicily, a according 6 
Lojacono Pojero. Naturally there are a number of other plants in 
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