. Flora of Syria, Palestine, and Sinai : from the Taurus to Ras Muhammas and from the Mediterranean sea to the Syrian desert. ddle and upper Lebanon and Antilebanon; Aintab; Marash. 3. Wi. £Ii§paiiica, L. 0 Low, puberulent, branching from base,branches erect or ascending. Leaves short-petioled, ovate, acute,arcuate-nerved ; floral similar in shape, longer than calyx. Yfhorls fewflowered, forming long, rather dense, leafy spikes; pedicels short, thick;calyx cylindrical, pubescent or hirtulous; corolla once and a half aslong as calyx, tube very slender, short-exserted; anthers not appen-daged —
. Flora of Syria, Palestine, and Sinai : from the Taurus to Ras Muhammas and from the Mediterranean sea to the Syrian desert. ddle and upper Lebanon and Antilebanon; Aintab; Marash. 3. Wi. £Ii§paiiica, L. 0 Low, puberulent, branching from base,branches erect or ascending. Leaves short-petioled, ovate, acute,arcuate-nerved ; floral similar in shape, longer than calyx. Yfhorls fewflowered, forming long, rather dense, leafy spikes; pedicels short, thick;calyx cylindrical, pubescent or hirtulous; corolla once and a half aslong as calyx, tube very slender, short-exserted; anthers not appen-daged — Spring —Waste fields between Aleppo and Edlip. 4. S. acutifolia, Montbr. et Auch. 0 .1 to .15, pulerulent,branching from base. Leaves lenticular to ollong-lanceolate, short-petioled ; floral ovate to oblong, acuminate. Whorls rather distant orcontiguous, forming long, rather loose or dense, oblong spikes; calyxsubsessile, puberulent; corolla with slender, slightly exserted tube;anthers not appendaged — Spring — Hills near Aleppo; Aintab - 5. Z. tenuior, L. 0 .05 to .2, canescent, branching from 636 LABIATE. (MINT FAMILY.) Leaves nerved, scabrous, ciliate, lenticular to lanceolate; Jioral of samesha2)e, longer than flowers. Whorls often arjctnged along the whole lengthof the tranch, forming more or less dense, oblong or cylindrical spikes;calyx subsessile, .009 long, .001 in diameter, hispid; corolla one thirdlonger than calyx, tube slightly exserted; anther Tvith or withouta club-shaped appendage—April to June —Fields and hill sides; Damas-cus; middle and subalpine Autilebanon to Syrian Desert, Aint^b,Amanus, and northward. 6. S. Taurica, M. B. © .02, canescent, branching from linear-lanceolate, narrowed at base ; floral similar, nerved,scabrous, ciliated, longer than calyces. Whorls axillary, loosely ordensely spiked along nearly the whole branch; calyx subsessile,cylindrical, hispid; corolla ticice as long as calyx, tube somewhat ex
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