. Flora of Syria, Palestine, and Sinai : from the Taurus to Ras Muhammas and from the Mediterranean sea to the Syrian desert. i, densely beset withimbricated leaves. Leaves leathery, entire, ellipitical-obtuse to oblong-acute,.01 to .02 long, .003 to .006 broad; umbellar leaves cordate-ovate. Raysof umbel 3-5, thick, short, twice to thrice bifid; floral leaves cordate-reniform, mucronulate; horns short, spreading; capsule broader thanlong, .006 broad, 3-lobed, carpels rounded — Summer — Sands; coast. 39. E. iuacro§tcgia, Boiss. 5 -^ t<^ -^j shrubby at base; stemsreddish, at length naked bel
. Flora of Syria, Palestine, and Sinai : from the Taurus to Ras Muhammas and from the Mediterranean sea to the Syrian desert. i, densely beset withimbricated leaves. Leaves leathery, entire, ellipitical-obtuse to oblong-acute,.01 to .02 long, .003 to .006 broad; umbellar leaves cordate-ovate. Raysof umbel 3-5, thick, short, twice to thrice bifid; floral leaves cordate-reniform, mucronulate; horns short, spreading; capsule broader thanlong, .006 broad, 3-lobed, carpels rounded — Summer — Sands; coast. 39. E. iuacro§tcgia, Boiss. 5 -^ t<^ -^j shrubby at base; stemsreddish, at length naked below, branching; branches below umbel, and EUPHOKBIACEiE. (SPURGE FAMILY.) 735 5-rayed umbel several times bifid. Leaves leathery, glossy at uppersurface, pale at lower, glabrous or minutely hairy, somewhat petioled,taperiug at base, ovate-oblong to oblong^ or elliptical, .02 to .04 long, theumbellar ovate. Floral Z^ayes coimate in a droad, orbicular, retuse ]^ate ;horns of glands short, divergent; capsule ovate, .003 long, puberulentor glabrous — April to June — Subalpine Lebanon; Amanus, andnorthward. Fig, Inflorescence of Euphorbiadenticulata. 40. E. denticulata, Lam. to .5, glabrous; stems thick, ascend-ing, at length naked below, andmarked with scars of leaves, some-times sparingly branched below um-bel. Leaves sessile, fleshy, with thin,scabrous, cartilaginous margin, obo-vate-cuneate to r7io7nbic-obovate, .04 long, mucronate. Rays of umbel5-7, twice 2-3-forked; umbellar andfloral leaves ellijytical to orbicular-reni-form; involucre hemispherical, red,with glands .006 broad; lobes ovate,ciliate; glands purple, broader thanlong, truncate, pectinate-dentate ; cap-sule triquetrous-ovate, .01 long, trun-cate atbase, obsoletely grooved, carpelskeeled; seed oblong, .005 long,obtuse, tetragonal, loith elevated, anastomosing-vermicular wrinkles andirregular pits; caruncle stipitate, conical, wrinkled-pitted, two-thirdsas long as seed — April and May —
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