THE GENUS TELEPHIUM 801 
cyme are often opposite. Mr. G. C. Druce has kindly examined 
the type-specimen, and assures me that the fragment was probably 
used for the drawing, judging from its facies, but that there is no 
Bunnedision ramuloru eliotropio instar reflect re) 
petala p nt; vas i simpli ins trivalyia; plura semina 
continentia.” The collection of plants was made about 1720. 
Battandier and Trabut, in their Algerian Flora, cite the plant as 
‘«Telephium oppositifolium Shaw,’ and naively assert that no one 
has seen the plant since Shaw. Though Linneus met Shaw in the 
here been ao into, as it is a serious matter to zi definitely a 
Linnean species 
T. repens Lamk. Fl. Frangaise, iii. 71 (1778).—Like Moench, 
Lamarck disapproves of the Linn nean specific name, which he mis- 
spells ‘* Telephium impetrati. 
2, TELEPHIUM OLIGOSPERMUM. 
Boiss. Fl. Orient. i. 754. 
Perenne. Caules simplices teretes erecti firmi foliosi. Folia 
25-87 mm. longa, 4 mm. lata, elongata lineari-lanceolata acuta, 
basi attenuata, nervo medio subtus prominente. Flores in — 
subcapitatas congesti. Pedicelli basi medioque sepius squ 
bracteolati; bractee minute albo-scariose. Sepala late ndetib 
acuta are carinata, sat late presertim apicem ve 
membranaceo-marginata ibique cucullata. Petala clade: linearia 
tenuia, calyce paullulum breviora. apsula nitida, sensim 
strum acutum attenuata, calyce 4 parte longior. Semina ple- 
rumque 6 (vel 8), 14 x 1 mm., reniformi-subcompressa, punctata 
vel subtiliter granulata, umbrina 
Hab, Asiatic Turkey: Mt. ‘Kara,* in the vilayet of oe 
between the River Tigris and the River Shirwan, in stony place 
(Kotschy, Pl. Alepp. Kurdistan. Mosul. n. 820, 1841). 
Described from authentic type-specimens; all of those which 
are ogre being cut off above the rhizome. Boissier says that 
e r those of the preceding species: but seeds 
from dicks placed together under a lens (and measured) seem to be 
of exactly the same size. Boissier also says that the capsule is 
y e $Sl s tha 
longer than the calyx by a fourth part; it is certainly more 
exserted than this in the specimens 
TELEPHIUM SPHEROS 
Boiss. "Dingle Plant. Or. Now Fee. 5 i. x. 12. 
Annuum vel bienne. Caules 5-15 em., abbreviati filiformes 
simplices foliosi. Folia 6-8 mm. x 3-4 mm., oblongo-elliptica, 
* Not “ Gara’’ as Moat on the printed labels of all the specimens. There 
is no such place as Mt. Gara 
