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or subamUe in profile, with usually a short, persistent apiculus and 

 almost obsolete apical pits. 



y Symei, nov. var. 



F. Vaillantii Babington in Trans. Bot. Soc. Edin. i. p. 36 

 (1840) ; Eng. Bot. Suppl. 2877, ex parte ; nee alibi nee 

 aliorum. 

 Icon. — Eng. Bot. Suppl. 2877 (white-flowered form). 

 Exsiccata. — A. G. More, Cherry Hinton, 1853, Herb. Mus. 

 Brit. ! G. C. Druce, Newmarket, 1904, Herb. Mus. Brit. ! 



Habitu inter typum et var. acuminatam medium fere tenet, 

 foliorum laciniis brevioribus, crassioribus divaricatisque glaucis- 

 sima. Flores sepalis circa 1^ mm. longis, f mm. latis, ovalibus 

 vel rhomboideis, praecipue supra medium dentatis; corollis anguste 

 alatis, raro roseo-albidis. Fructus subrotundi, juniores subapi- 

 culati, cannd distinctSj m rostrum emarginatum brevissimum 

 prodtcctd tandem obtusi. 



In habit intermediate between the type and var. acuminata, 

 with very glaucous foliage and short, thick and sometimes divari- 

 cate leaf-segments. Flowers with oval or rhomboidal, acute 

 sepals about 1| mm. long and f mm. broad, toothed chiefly above 

 the middle ; and narrowly winged corollas, rarely much tinted 

 with pink. Fruits subrotund, subapiculate when young but at 

 maturity obtuse, loith the well-marked keel drawm into an extremely 

 short, blunt and notched beak. 



This plant is near var. glauca Clavaud {F. glauca Jord.), which 

 differs in its dwarfer habit and still more glaucous foliage, in its 

 denser racemes of pinker flowers, and in its subacute or apiculate 

 instead of subemarginate fruits. 



Distribution. — F. ijarviflora is one of the most widely distri- 

 buted species of the genus, extending from the Canaries to North 

 India, while, judging from the numerous examples in herbaria, it 

 is extensively established in Mexico. The specimens that I have 

 seen from localities east of Persia appear varietally distinct owing 

 to their markedly rounded-obtuse or nearly truncate fruits, and 

 other plants at Kew and the British Museum collected in India 

 itself as F. j^arviflora diverge still further from the type and 

 approach F. Vaillantii, to which species they have been referred 

 by Haussknecht as var. indica. 



F. loarviflora is known from : — 



Sweden (JTazissA;.). Germany! ^Boigium {Haussk.). France! 

 Spain! Portugal! Corsica! Sardinia! Italy! Sicily! Istria 

 {Haussk.). Dalmatia! Hungary (iJ(2?t.S5A;.). Transsilvania {Nij- 

 man). Greece I Turkey ! Caucasus {Haussk.). 



Asia Minor ! Cyprus {Hb. Keio) ! Syria I Arabia [Hb. Keiu) ! 

 Mesopotamia ! Transcaucasia ! Persia ! Afghanistan {Hb. Kew) ! 

 Beluchistan {Hb. Keiu) ! Kashmir {Hb. Keiu) ! 



Egypt {Hb. Keio) ! Tunis ! Algeria ! Morocco {Hb. Keto) ! 

 Canaries ! 



Mexico ! 



F. ixirviflora is unknown in the Channel Islands, and although 



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