THE GENUS TELEPHIUM 291 
atum; styli 8, liberi, ima basi autem Stine patenti-recurvi, 
breves, intus apices versus stigmatosi; ovula numerosa, placentse 
basilari ula chartacea cae -pyramidata trigona, basi 
incomplete tricularis, superne unilocularis, valvis 3 m edio septiferis 
dehiscens. Semina plura, in 6 series disposita, ene com- 
pressa vel sobileves dorso acutata, testa levi vel s er granu- 
lata. — Herb suffruticulose, rhizomate duro em Paice 
alterna, ovalia vel oblonga, enervia. Cyma@ se terminales, subcapi- 
tate, vel interdum in dichasiis sat Sasto multifloris. Flores parvi, 
petalis albis. Species nune cognoscende 
Geographical area of the genus.—The ‘countries round the Medi- 
terranean Sea, Eden Trans-Caucasia, Persia, and Mada- 
sear. 
List of the Speci 
1, T. Imperati Linn. Sp. Plant. 271 (175 3). 
Var. onIENTALE Boiss. Fl. esse i. 754 (1867). 
8. T. sppmrosperMumM Boiss. Dikén: Plant. or. nov. Ser. i. x. 12 
(1849 
)- 
. TI’. ERIGLAUCU 
4 sp. D 
She SLaNDULOSU Bertal. Miscellanea Botanica, i. 18, t. 
fig. 2 (18 
Se = “Coes aerate Baker, in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxi. 347 
(1884). 
. Tecepaium ImpErati. 
Linn. Sp. ae rey Willk. et Lange, Prod. Fl. ed iii. 167 ; 
Rouy et Camus , Fl. de France, vii. 206 (Nov., 1901).* 
audit cero ramosa, fibris paucis albis. Rhizoma crassum 
lignosum. Caules 1-4 dem., simplices subangulati graciles firmi 
dense foliati. Folia subunilateralia approximata semper autem 
evidenter alternantia, oveba elliptica obovato- oblonga vel oblonga, 
e 
feraactate-t exigue albo-scari ob- 
eola’ ona concava carinata ia - 
ta. Petala paullum infra disci marginem inserta, 
oblonga tenuia, calyci sequilon tamina petalis calycique sequl- 
longa. Ovarii fornicem versus placenta a 3 filis in stylos pro- 
longata, Capsula nitida, abrupte rostrata, calycem paullulum ex- 
ot — a 12-18, reniformi-subcompressa, levia umbrina, 
Wer th "limit. France: at the foot of the cliffs of Gily, near 
Arbois, in the department of Jura, where it was found about the 
. cog the amine references under the genus, fourteen will also apply to 
this spec: The present description is —! on a series of typical examples 
from "the me departmen t of Alpes-Mari 
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