. Flora of Syria, Palestine, and Sinai : from the Taurus to Ras Muhammas and from the Mediterranean sea to the Syrian desert. r ; root-leaves .05 long, .04 to .1 broad ; fruiting calyx .006 long ; clusters many-flowered — Akher Dagh. 16 V. Siiiaiticum, Bth. (D Kherma. 1 or more, denselypannous with golden or rusty tcool, long-panicled. Leaves thick, cre-nate, the lower oblong, .3 to .4 long, .06 to .08 broad, tapering at base;the upper ovate, tapering at tip, somewhat cordate-clasping, and some-times decurrent at base. Flowers ichite, .01 broad, 3-5 in a cluster,forming interrupted spike
. Flora of Syria, Palestine, and Sinai : from the Taurus to Ras Muhammas and from the Mediterranean sea to the Syrian desert. r ; root-leaves .05 long, .04 to .1 broad ; fruiting calyx .006 long ; clusters many-flowered — Akher Dagh. 16 V. Siiiaiticum, Bth. (D Kherma. 1 or more, denselypannous with golden or rusty tcool, long-panicled. Leaves thick, cre-nate, the lower oblong, .3 to .4 long, .06 to .08 broad, tapering at base;the upper ovate, tapering at tip, somewhat cordate-clasping, and some-times decurrent at base. Flowers ichite, .01 broad, 3-5 in a cluster,forming interrupted spikes often .4 long ; pedicels woolly, unequal,the longest scarcely longer than calyx ; calyx .005 long, cleft for two-thirds of its length into oblong-lanceolate lobes ; capsule ovate, .006long— Summer — Antilebanon ; Jaulan ; Gilead ; around Dead Sea ;Sinai. 17. V. Aliciae, Post. (Plant. Postian. IIL 14). If .5 to .6,Btellate-woolly ; stems numerous, wand-iike, simple or sparinglybranched. Leaves entire, the lower oblong-spathulate, .06 to .1 long,with petiole as long as limb, the upper sessile, lanceolate, cordate-. SCROPHUT^ARIACEiE. (FIOWORT FAMILY.) 577 clasping at base, acute and acuminate. Clusters 2-3-flowered below,1-flowered above, remote, pedicels as long as ovate, acuminate bractand calyx ; calyx .004 long, cleft nearly to base ; corolla .01 broad ;capsule ovate-globular, .005 long, woolly, at length glabrous—July— Wadi Ibrisah, above el Hurmul (Lebanon). • 1§. Y, Trlpolitamim, Boiss. (D 1 to 2 ; stem glabrescent,turning black, ending in a broad panicle. Sterilerosettes rusty-jDannous, fertile leaves yellowish- Fig. 263. green ; lower leaves .3 to .5 long, oblong to ob-lanceolate, petioled, crenate-lobed to crenate,upper oblong-lanceolate, not deeurrent. Flowers3-4 in a cluster, clusters distant, bracts cordate-acuminate ; pedicels shorter than calyx ; long, cleft beyond middle ; corolla yellow,.02 broad ; capsule ovate, scarcely longer thancalyx
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