NOTES ON SOME ORIENTAL ONOSMAS 
281 
stall ulaturn W. Iv., though they appear to belong to the great 
congeries of dissimilar plants which Boissier, in a spirit of despair, 
collected under that general title in the Flora Orientalis. This plant 
differs from No. 2 in its lesser stature, in being strongly astero- 
trichous throughout, and especially in the glabrous corollas, in which 
respect it approaches O. tauricum Pall., but differs therefrom in the 
whitish instead of dark green-grey appearance of the plant in sicco , 
in the patent, not adpressed hairs of the stem, in the much shorter 
basal leaves, in the uncurved bracts, which in tauricum are charac¬ 
teristically scimitar-shaped, and in shorter corollas. But for the 
fatal lack of pubescence on the corollas it might pass as a less strigose 
'pallidum of the Smyrna type, to which it comes nearest in general 
habit. Here, again, so far as I am aware, we need a new name, and 
I suggest O. amasianum: O. Boiss. plantae ex Smyrna 
proximum, differt lierba multo minus strigosa, corollis glabris, ab 
O. taurico cui propter corollarum glabritatem accedit, diversum toto 
habitu, colore in sicco cinereo-albescenti, nec atro-griseo, pilis caulinis 
patentibus nec adpressis vel subadpressis, bracteis minus incurvis nec 
conspicue acinaciformibus, ab O. No. 2, setis fere omnibus basi 
copiose stellulata onundis, et corolla glabra. 
4. Bornmuller, It. Anatolicum tertium (1899) No. 5309. 
B. thynia, “ in dumosis inferioris montis Olympi (Keschisch-dagh), 
2-400 m., 18 v,” as 0. pallidum Boiss. 8 olympicum Bornm. A tall 
plant; stem 30-40 cm. high, closely clothed with oblanceolate very 
blunt leaves, and bearing only one or two scorpioid cymes ; indu¬ 
mentum not very harsh, the stellate tubercles smaller and less con¬ 
spicuous than in No. 3, but closely covering all the leaves; corollas 
thickly pubescent; dries pale green, not grey or ashy. This is evi¬ 
dently the plant from Olympus, which DeCandolle, loc. cit ., refers to 
O. rigidum Ledeb., quoting Aucher-Eloy No. 2308 (seen at Kew) 
which agrees with this Bornmuller number. DeCandolle associates 
the Crimean rigidum with the Bithynian plant, but the only specimen 
1 have seen “ex hort. Petropolitano,” and therefore presumably cul¬ 
tivated, is not identical with Aucher-Ploy’s or Bornmuller’s speci¬ 
mens. It would best be called O. rigidum Ledeb. var. olympicum 
Bornm. pro var. O. pallidi Boiss. = O. rigidum DC. quoad plantain 
ex Olympo Bithynise. Boissier, Diagn. xi. p. 113, points out that 
the Crimean and Bithynian rigidum are not identical. 
5. Sintenis et Bornmuller, Iter Turcicum (1891), No. 822, 
from Mt. Athos at Panagia, 23 vi. determined by Halacsy as O. tau¬ 
ricum is nothing of the kind, but O. paradoxum Janka, PI. Nov. 
Turc. breviarium in O. B. Z. xxii. p. 180(1872), ex loc. class.—a very 
weak species perhaps, the discussion of which must be left to the 
botanists who are engaged upon the flora of Macedonia, but toto ccclo 
abhorring O. tauricum Pall. 
6. Sintenis et Bornmuller, eodem anno, No. 207, from the 
island of Thasos, at Limenas, 17 v, also determined by Halacsy as 
tauricum , is the same form as No. 5, and here too must be referred, 
though not so perfectly identical 
