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thickened), linear or linear-ohlong, acute or mucronate lohes. 

 Bacemes very demise at first, but soon lengthening and becoming 

 lax in fruit, ma^iy- (normally 20-25-) floivered, much exceeding the 

 stout, very short or sometimes even obsolete peduncles. Bracts 

 linear-oblong, cuspidate, normally exceeding the fruiting loedicels, 

 whitish in colour but suffused with pink above, and with green 

 midrib. Fruiting pedicels short unless shade-grown, considerably 

 dilated above, usually straight and erect-spreading. Sepals 2^ 

 3^ mm. long and 2-3 mm. broad, nearly orbicular or in late flowers 

 broadly ovate, peltate or subcordate, often subentire but sometimes 

 laciniate towards the base, mucronate or acute, white with more 

 or less pink tinting and an obscure median nerve, much broader 

 than the corolla-tube. Corolla 6-7 mm. long, rosy-pink in colour, 

 with the tip of the inner petals and the luings of the upper one 

 blackish red. Upper petal rather narroiv and somewhat laterally 

 compressed, obtuse or subacute, with a subspathulate dilation of 

 the erect- spreading wings, which rarely much exceed the keel, 

 though usually extending to its apex ; spur ascending, relatively 

 large and rounded. Loiver petal ivith spreading margins, narrow 

 below but dilated towards the apex in a subspathulate outline. 

 Fruits of moderate size, 2-2 J mm. long and equally broad, sub- 

 globose, broadest about the middle with very little lateral com- 

 pression but a fairly marked keel, rounded-obtuse above (with a 

 minute apiculus, when fresh) and reduced below to an indistinct 

 neck a little narrower than the tip of the pedicel ; when dry, 

 rugose with obscure and shallow apical pits. 

 Forma dtibia. 



Exsiccata. — Eidley & Fawcett, Wareham, Dorset, 1883, Herb. 

 Mus. Brit. ! 



Typi habitum, folia, bracteas fructusque habet, sed flores paulo 

 minores sepalis semper ovatis, acutis, 2-2J mm. longis, 1-1| mm. 

 latis, infra plus minusve laciniatis prseditos. 



This form resembles the type in habit, foliage, bracts and fruit, 

 but the flowers are somewhat smaller, not exceeding 6 mm. in 

 length, with the sepals normally ovate, acute, only 2-2| mm. 

 long and 1-1| mm. broad, and more or less laciniate towards 

 the base. 



From the variety Parlatoriana it may be distinguished by its 

 ampler foliage, longer pedicels, larger flowers and less keeled 

 fruits ; and from var. littoralis by its channelled leaf-segments 

 and longer racemes of pinker flowers. 



Distribution. — Like F. Bastardi, this is chiefly a Mediterranean 

 species. It occurs in the following countries : — 



Gevm&ny {Hb. Keiv)\ KoWa^nd (Ny^naii). Belgium 1 France! 

 Spain {Hb. Keio) ! Corsica (Nicotra). Sardinia {Hb. Keiv) ! 

 Italy {Haussk.). Sicily {Haussk.). Macedonia {Hb. Keio) ! 

 Eumelia [Nyman). Greece ! 



Asia Minor ! Cyprus {Rb. Keio) ! Syria ! Mesopotamia {Hb. 

 Kew) ! Persia {Haussk.). Caucasus {Haussk.). 



Egypt (with var. Parlatoriana — Hb. Kew) ! Cyrenaica {Hh. 

 C. Bailey) ! Tunis ! Algeria ! 



