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198 SYNOPSIS OF THE GENUS TUNICA.
paniculatim ramosi. Folia 22-25 mm., linear! -lanceolata acuminata
adi^ressa trinervia margine scabrida. Calyx dentibus ovatis
acutis. Lamina oblonga integra superne alba subtus liiieis viola-
ceis picta.
Sectio V. Pleurotunica. — Flores solitarii basi nudi. Calyx
valde quinquecostatus, costis 1 v. 3-nerviis. Monotocfe.
Subsectio 1.—Folia paten tia. Calyx costis uninerviis. Petala
iniegm.
22. T. iLLYRicA Fisch. et Mey. ; Linn., Mantissa, p.70 {Saponaria)
Eebb., Ic. Flor. Germ. 4999.—Viscido-pubescens,plusmimiscp&spitosa
basi suffrutescens. Caules numerosi rigidi laxe et divarieatim
dicliotomi. Folia anguste lineari-subulata recurva trinervia
margine scabi*a. Flores approximati. Calyx hirsutus tubulosocampanulatus,
dentibns triangnlari-ovatis mucronatis. Lamina
oblonga, supra pallide ocliroleuca subtus purpui^o-lineata basi
purpureo-punctata. Biennis.
Var. Taygetea Boiss* ; Fl. Orient. 1, p. 521.
Var. fidva Huter ; PI. Exsiceat. Ex Itin. Italieo, iii. no. 256
(Herb. Kew).
This species includes the following plants :
Saponaria IRijrica L., wbich certainly does not occur in Illyria,
and therefore the trivial name proposed by Linnaeus is not appro-
priate.
Gypsophila cretim Griseb. in Spieil. Fl. RumeL Bithyn. 1,
p. 184. T. cretica, for which tlie plant may have been mistaken,
does not occur in the Balkan provinces.
Fiedleria illyrica Rchb., representing a genus which has not
been maintained.
23. T. Dav^ana Cosson ; Bull. Soc. Bot. France, xxxvi. p. 103.
—Viscido-pubescens lG-20 centim. Caules erecti rigidi laxe et
divaricatim dichotami. Folia anguste lineari-subulata trinervia
stricta margine scabra. Pedieelli oalyce longiores. Calyx clavatus
dentibus ovato-lanceolatis mucronatis. Lamina oblongo-spathulata
pm'purascens. Annua. — Cyrenaica in Africa boi-eali (in horto
Musei Parisiensis culta).
24. T. STRICTA Bunge in FL Altaica, ii, (1830), p. 129 (Gypsophila);
Ledebour in Ic. PI. Ross. tab. 15.—Glabra 25 centim. Caules
numerosi erecti strictissimi basi racemose ramosi. Folia brevia
uninervia incurva margine scabra radicalia flaccida rosulata linearispathulata,
caulinia late linearia acuta. Pedieelli calyce 2-5-plo
longiores. Calyx tuv^binatus dentibus triangularibus acutis. Lamina
albida oblongo -linearis. Biennis.
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Subsectio 2.—Folia patentia trinervia. Calyx costis trinerviis.
25. T. PACHYGONA Fisch. et Mey.; Lid. Sem. Petropolit. iv. p.
50.—Glanduloso-viscida. Caules 13-20 centim., erecti rigidi a medio
dichotome paniculati. Fcdia lineai-ia acuta margine Ifcvia. Pedieelli
calyce sublongiores. Calyx glaber campanulatus dentibus
triangulari-ovatis mucronatis. Lamina alba lineari-spathulata integra
subtus trilineata. Annua.