Refugium Botanicum.} (April, 1870. 
TAB. 201. 
Natural Order CrAssuLAcE&. 
Genus CoryLEpon, Linn. 
Section Umsiricus, D.C. 
C. GLOBULARIEFOLIA, Baker. Acaulis, glanduloso-pubescens, foliis dense 
rosulatis pallide viridibus obovato-spathulatis 3—4-plo longioribus 
quam latis obtusis exterioribus recurvatis, ramorum floriferorum 
numerosis oblanceolatis, floribus 20—40 in paniculam thyrsoideam 
modice densam ramis patentibus cymosis dispositis, pedicellis 
infimis calyce zquantibus, sepalis lanceolatis ascendentibus, corollis 
albis rubro-tinctis segmentis lanceolato-deltoideis tubo campanulato 
eequantibus, filamentis subequalibus ad basin tubi insertis. — 
Umbilicus globularigfolius, Fenzl, Pug. Plant. Nov. Syr. 1. 15; 
Walpers, Repert. ii. 258. 
A native of Syria and Asia Minor. 
Root stout, fusiform, perennial. Leaves thirty to forty in a 
dense sessile rosette, like the whole plant finely glanduloso- 
pubescent, the outer ones recurved, obovate-spathulate, two to 
two and a half inches long by half to three-quarters of an inch 
broad five-sixths of the way up, blunt or with an obscure point, 
the colour pale green, the texture thin for the genus, the edge 
conspicuously gland-ciliated. Flowering branches arcuately 
ascending from the crown of the root below the sterile rosettes, 
often more than one, four to six inches long exclusive of the 
flowers. Flowers twenty to forty in a moderately dense thyrsoid 
panicle with patent cymose branches, the upper pedicels very 
short, the lower a line and a half to two lines long. Calyx very 
glandular, two lines deep, the divisions equal, ascending, lanceo- 
late, not very fleshy, adpressed to the corolla. Corolla three- 
eighths of an inch deep, pure white with a reddish tinge, cleft 
half-way down, the divisions lanceolate-deltoid, acute, falcate 
when expanded. Both rows of stamens subequal, the outer row 
inserted at the very base of the cup. 
This belongs to a small well-marked group of Oriental species. 
Its allies are U. libanoticus, D.C., U. persicus, Boiss., and U. 
Pestalozze, Boiss.; and whether the four are to be regarded as 
distinct specifically, in the broad sense, we doubt very much. 
Our plant is exactly Kotschy, 202, from the Taurus. 
