NOTES. 
ON PHLOMIS LUNARIFOLIA, SIBTH. ET SMITH, AND SOME SPECIES 
CONFUSED WITH IT. — At least two species have been confused under the name 
Phlomis lunarifolia . A comparison with Sibthorp’s type, kindly lent by the authorities 
at the Oxford University Herbarium, shows that the plant figured and described in 
the Botanical Magazine (1900), t. 7699, is a distinct species (to which I give the name 
Phlomis grandiflora ), differing in the following points . — 
P. lunarifolia. — Bracts lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate ; calyx glabrous between 
the ribs, with five long ascending mucros, and nearly truncate ; hood of corolla 
semicircular in outline; lower lip scarcely longer than the upper; middle lobe of 
lower lip entire ; nutlets slightly glandular above ; leaves crenate, and veins of leaf 
conspicuously impressed above. 
P. grandiflora. — Bracts ovate ; calyx stellately pubescent all over, with five 
membranous, broad and emarginate lobes produced into mucros which are shorter 
and more spreading than in P. lunarifolia ; hood of corolla more gradually curved 
and larger than in P. lunarifolia ; lower lips conspicuously longer than the upper ; 
middle lobe of lower lip obcordate ; nutlets glabrous ; leaves entire (or very minutely 
and obscurely crenulate) and veins not conspicuously impressed above. 
Phlomis lunarifolia was first described in Sibthorp and Smith’s Prodromus 
Florae Graecae (1806), vol. i, p. 414, as follows: — c foliis cordatis crenatis, subtus 
tomentosis ; bracteis ovato-lanceolatis fasciculato-ciliatis mucronatis. P. Sarnia 
herbacea, lunariae folio, Tourn. Cor. 10. ... In variis Peloponnesi locis; etiam in 
monte Atho.’ 
Sibthorp and Smith give it the habit of P. Samia but with broader bracts ; and 
as Boissier points out in Flora Orientalis, vol. iv, p. 785, their statement that it was 
found in the Peloponnesus and on Mt. Athos probably arose from a confusion of the 
species with P. Samia , Linn., which actually occurs in the Peloponnesus and on 
Mt. Athos. At any rate P. lunarifolia has not since been recorded from Greece, and 
as Sibthorp visited Chrysoku in May, 1787 (see Unger and Kotschy, Die Insel Cypern , 
p. 148), where Kotschy found the plant, we may assume that Sibthorp’s specimen 
came from Cyprus and that the label was lost. 
Bentham, who says (DC. Prod. 1847, vol. xii, p. 541) ‘ exemplar in herb. 
Sibthorp. pessimum,’ places it next to P. Russeliana , Lag., and he distinguishes it from 
P. Russeliana by the bracts being three times as broad. 
In the Botanical Magazine (1825) t. 2542 is figured and described Phlomis 
lunarifolia /3 Russeliana , which was thought by the sender, Mr. Lambert, to be the 
P. lunarifolia of the Prod. Flor. Graecae. Dr. Sims, the Editor, had no opportunity 
of comparing the plant with Sibthorp’s specimen, but he considered it a variety of it, 
[Annals of Botany, Vol. XIX. No. LXXV. July, 1905.] 
