. Flora of Syria, Palestine, and Sinai : from the Taurus to Ras Muhammas and from the Mediterranean sea to the Syrian desert. long as tube; corolla yellow, v/ith included tube — Summer— Eocks; Nahr-el-Kelb (Lebanon). 5. S. Libanotica, Labill. 2]! .4 to , many-stemmed, the branches and newleaves white-woolly, often glabrescent,greenish above; stems angled, slender, sim-ple or stiff-branched. Leaves rigid, reticu-late, spathulate and oblanceolate obtuse tooblong-lanceolate, the upper acute, mucro-nate, usually acutely serrulate. Whorls dis-tant, about .01 long and broad; floral leavessomew
. Flora of Syria, Palestine, and Sinai : from the Taurus to Ras Muhammas and from the Mediterranean sea to the Syrian desert. long as tube; corolla yellow, v/ith included tube — Summer— Eocks; Nahr-el-Kelb (Lebanon). 5. S. Libanotica, Labill. 2]! .4 to , many-stemmed, the branches and newleaves white-woolly, often glabrescent,greenish above; stems angled, slender, sim-ple or stiff-branched. Leaves rigid, reticu-late, spathulate and oblanceolate obtuse tooblong-lanceolate, the upper acute, mucro-nate, usually acutely serrulate. Whorls dis-tant, about .01 long and broad; floral leavessomewhat membranous, cordate-orbicular,acuminate to abruptly cuspidate or mucro-nate, the lower longer fhe upper shorter thanwhorl; calyx-teeth spiny-mucronate, half asZ(???pas tube; corolla yellow, with includedtube — July to September — Alpine andsubalpine Lebanon, Antilebanon, and lowerto alpine regions of Cassius, Amanus andAkher Dagh, and northward. Var. tncana, Boiss. Densely white-felty — Alpine regions. Var. linearis, Bth. Green, glabres-cent or canescent. Leaves linear-lanceolate to linear — Antilebanon;. Fig. 303. Whorlsof Sideritis Libano-tica. Fig. 304. Spike ofSideritis Nusairien-sis. 6. S. Nusairieii§i§, Post. (Plantee Postianse, Fasc. V. p. 15).2f .6 to .8, pamious; stems simple, stiff. Leaves obovate-spathulate tospathulate and oblong, entire, rugose. Whorls approximated, cup)-&haped, .008 long and Iroad, forming an interrupted spike ; floral leavesIroader than long, cordate at base, abruptly and very short-pmnted, alladout half as long as whorls; caljx-teeth one-third to one-fourth as longas tube, a little shorter than yellow corolla — July and August — Be-tween Qalat-el-Musyaf and El-Btreh (Nusairy Mountains). 7. S. pullulaiig, Vent. If .5 to .S, grey-fieecy below, puhescent-viscid, greenish above; stems stout, ending in an oppositely-branchedpanicle. Leaves reticulate, crenate-denticulate, spiny-tipped, oblance-olate to lanceolate-oblong. Whorls
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