. Flora of Syria, Palestine, and Sinai : from the Taurus to Ras Muhammas and from the Mediterranean sea to the Syrian desert. ous, linear, .01 long, revolute-margined, olive-green at upper surface, canescentat lower? Flowers sessile, opposite, arranged in axillary racemes .02to .03 long; bracts minute, oblong to ovate, caducous; calyx pubes-cent-canescent; corolla twice and a half as long as calyx —All theyear — Hot hillsides above Shuweifat (Lebanon). Probably escapedfrom cultivation. 13. ZIZYPHORA, L. Zizyphora. Calyx narrow-tubular, 13-nerved, obsoletely bilabiate, upper lipwith 3, l
. Flora of Syria, Palestine, and Sinai : from the Taurus to Ras Muhammas and from the Mediterranean sea to the Syrian desert. ous, linear, .01 long, revolute-margined, olive-green at upper surface, canescentat lower? Flowers sessile, opposite, arranged in axillary racemes .02to .03 long; bracts minute, oblong to ovate, caducous; calyx pubes-cent-canescent; corolla twice and a half as long as calyx —All theyear — Hot hillsides above Shuweifat (Lebanon). Probably escapedfrom cultivation. 13. ZIZYPHORA, L. Zizyphora. Calyx narrow-tubular, 13-nerved, obsoletely bilabiate, upper lipwith 3, lower with 2, short, connivent teeth; throat villous. Corolla-tube not ringed, dilated at throat, upper limb erect, entire, lower LABIATE, (mint FAMILY.) 635 spreading, trilid. Perfect stamens 2, anterior, ascending beneatii theupper lijD; anthers connate by margins, 1-celled, either appendaged bya small, empty, stipitate cell, or not appendaged. Sterile filamentsshort, with 2, empty anther-cells or 0, Style bilobed. Nutlets smooth— Perennial or annual herbs. Perennials, zdUJi aspect of Thymus Serpylliim. Fig. Head of Zizyphora clinopodoides, var. canescens. 1. Z. clmopocloide§, M. B. 5 Ij! .1 to .4, shrubby at base, much branched. Leaves gla-brous to velvety or hairy, ovate to oblong andlanceolate, .005 to .01 long; floral similar in shape,somewhat smaller. Whorls crowded in a termi-nal, ovate-oblong to globular head; calyx minute-ly velvety or villous, .005 long ; corolla white,once and a half as long as calyx, tube slightly ex-serted; anthers not appendaged — June to Au-gust — Var. eaitesceii§, Boiss. .1 to .2, shrubby,branches intricate. Leaves elliptical to ovate-oblong or lenticular —Subalpine and alpine Lebanon and Antilebanon; Akher Dagh. Var. rigida, Boiss. .3 to .4, branches slender, ascending. Leavesoblong to linear-oblong — Alpine Antilebanon,jf * Annuals loith aspect of Acinos. 2. E. capUata, L. © .02 to .2, appressed-canescent, stemless or br
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