. Flora of Syria, Palestine, and Sinai : from the Taurus to Ras Muhammas and from the Mediterranean sea to the Syrian desert. , semi-terete, linear-cylindrical, .015 to .02 long, .001 broad,spreading, the floral much longer than flowers. Flowers perfect,clustered, forming long, leafy spikes, loose below, denser above; fruit-ing perigonium top-shaped, as large as a hemp seed, the lobes ovate,gibbous-inflated, spongy; seed beaked, smooth — Spring —MerjDamascus; Sinai to Egypt. 16. TRAOAJ^UM, Del. Traganum. Flowers perfect, bibracteate, axillary. Perigonium 5-fid, in fruitthickened below, nut-lik
. Flora of Syria, Palestine, and Sinai : from the Taurus to Ras Muhammas and from the Mediterranean sea to the Syrian desert. , semi-terete, linear-cylindrical, .015 to .02 long, .001 broad,spreading, the floral much longer than flowers. Flowers perfect,clustered, forming long, leafy spikes, loose below, denser above; fruit-ing perigonium top-shaped, as large as a hemp seed, the lobes ovate,gibbous-inflated, spongy; seed beaked, smooth — Spring —MerjDamascus; Sinai to Egypt. 16. TRAOAJ^UM, Del. Traganum. Flowers perfect, bibracteate, axillary. Perigonium 5-fid, in fruitthickened below, nut-like, furnished in front and behind with a horn-like, conical, obtuse, hard protuberance, the lobes membranous, wing-less. Disk small. Staminodes 0. Stamens 5, with broad, exsertedfilaments. Anthers sagittate, acute. Style bifid, stigmas somewhat depressed, included in the woody perigonium, peri-carp membranous. Seed horizontal — A much branched shrub, withbranches not jointed. T. iiudatuiu, Del. 5 Fe-res. EaraJ. Thirr. Zamrdn. .2 FiG. .5, divaricate-branched; thebranchlets slender, Leaves alternate, .004 to .005long, distant, fleshy, triquetrous,oblong, mucronate, somewhatrecurved, keeled. Axils fleecy; flowers 1-3 in a cluster; brae- Piece of flowering stem of ovate-triquetrous, a littleshorter than the floral leaf; calyx-lobes membranous, oblong-lanceolate, obtuse, erect— May — Northern borders of et-Tih to Sinaiand Egypt. ir. SEIDLITZIA, Bunge. Seidlitzia. Flowers perfect, bibracteate, axillary, opposite, solitary or 2-3 ina cluster, the lateral often withering. Staminodes 5, semi-orbicular,glandular-ciliate, united mto disk; filaments 5, exserted,anthers muticous. Leaves of perigonium 5, united at base, elliptical,obtuse or bilobcd, in fruit parchment-like, furnished toward middlewith broad, membranous, transverse wings, the posterior wing spoon-shaped, bent forward, covering the fruit, the other
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