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and suggested that should it afterwards be determined a distinct species, Lagasca's 
name Russeliana would be appropriate, as he had ‘ no doubt but that it is the same 
species of which Dr. Russell has given a figure in his history of Aleppo, and which 
he thought might perhaps be a yellow-flowered variety of Phlomis Herba-ventii 
P. Russeliana , Lag., has, however, since been reduced by Boissier to P. viscosa , Poir., 
and it is totally different from both P. lunarifolia and P. grandiflora. 
Boissier ( Flora Orientalis , 1879, vol. iv), who did not see the type specimen of 
P. lunarifolia , confused two species under that name ; but his description is better 
adapted to P. grandiflora , e. g. *' bracteis ovatis, . . . calyx stellatim puberulo.’ He 
quotes Kotschy, no. 678 l , and Pdronin, no. 71, from Cilicia, which are the true 
P. lunarifolia of Sibthorp, and Bourgeau, no. 296, from near Elmaly in Lycia, 
which is P. grandiflora. Sir J. D. Hooker, in the Botanical Magazine (1900), t. 
7699, alludes to the confusion of islands [see footnote], and states that Boissier over- 
looked the record in Unger and Kotschy’ s Die Insel Cypern , published in 1865, where 
on p. 275 we read— 4 In Cypern bei Chrysoku im Thale gegen Chrysoroodissa nicht 
selten bis 6' hoch, n. 678, Peloponnesus. 9 
Boissier quotes as a synonym 1 P. imbricala, Boiss., in Bourg. PI. Lyc. i860. 9 This 
refers to the specimen mentioned above (no. 296) which clearly belongs to P. grandi- 
flora. He gives P. fruticosa, Linn., as the nearest ally, and distinguishes it thus — 
4 ab ea \P. fruticosa] indumento tenui, bracteis membranaceis ciliatis glabris calyceque 
distincta/ P. fruticosa may be separated from both P. lunarifolia and P. grandiflora 
by its tomentose bracts and calyx, and by the short and recurved calyx-teeth ; and 
from P. lunarifolia in having entire leaves. 
Halacsy, the most recent writer on the Greek flora, in his Conspectus Florae 
Graecae (1902), vol. ii, p. 509, simply quotes the description of Sibthorp and Smith, 
and remarks that the species is unknown to present-day authors. 
Phlomis Cypria, Post (in Mem. de VHerbier Boissier , 1900, p. 99), which has 
somewhat broad bracts, is distinguished by its smaller heads of flowers, which are 
solitary at the top of the branches, by its woolly bracts and calyx and very small 
lanceolate leaves. In the Kew Herbarium there are two fruiting pieces of what may 
be P. Cypria , which were distributed with flowering specimens of P. viscosa var. 
cretica [wrongly labelled P. fruticosa , Linn.] from waste places at Canea in Crete, by 
E. Reverchon (no. 143). The former match Post’s type specimens of P. Cypria in 
Herb. Kew. very well, and as Reverchon states the specimens were collected in May 
and July (1883), it is probable that the two pieces in question were gathered in July, 
the collector supposing them to be fruiting specimens of P. viscosa var. cretica. 
I now give descriptions and synonymy of both P. lunarifolia and P. grandiflora. 
Phlomis lunarifolia , Sibth. et Smith, Prod. Florae Graecae , vol. i, p. 414. 
Suffrutex 2-6 pedalis, ramis junioribus stellatim tomentosis. Folia 2-5 poll, 
jonga, §-3 poll, lata, apice rotundata, crenata, supra sparse stellatim pubescentia, 
subtus stellatim tomentosa, venis et venulis supra conspicue impressis, inferiora 
anguste ovata, basi cordata, petiolis usque ad 8^ poll, longis, superiora ovato-oblonga, 
basi rotundata vel obtusa, subsessilia vel breviter petiolata. Bracteae lanceolatae vel 
1 Erroneously from Rhodes instead of from Cyprus (Chrysochu). 
