440 DIAGNOSES PLANTARUM NOVARUM ORIENTALIUM. 
strigulos® penninerves abrupte in mucrones longos attenuate, 
calyx parce strigosus dentes eis typi longiores. 
Hab. in vallibus calidis inter Ma'in et Callirrhoé ditionis Moab. 
TEUCRIUM AURANITICUM.  Perenne, dumosum, crispe papil- 
loso-puberulum superne canescens, caudice ligneo, ramis nume- 
rosis flexuosis rigidis fere a basi paniculatim ramosis, foliis 
pallide viridibus breviter petiolatis ovato-oblongis obtusis obsolete 
dentatis, floralibus oblongo-lentieulis integris valde diminutis 
flores superantibus, cymis longe pedunculatis cymulis pedicellatis 
2-3-floribus bracteis linearibus hirtis, calycis minuti hirti fructiferi 
valde accreti dentibus breviter triangularibus obtusis, corolla 
alba hirta calyce subduplo longiore, staminibus inclusis. 
Hab. in agris ditionis Auranitis (vulgo Haurán); floret Maio. 
Readily distinguished by puberulent indumentum, few-flowered 
proliferous cymes of small sessile flowers, in pedicelled cymules. 
XVII. PLANTAGINACES. 
PrawTAGO ovata, Forsk., var. LANATA. Folia augustissima, 
axis dense lanuginosa. 
Hab. in agro ditionis Auranitis (vulgo Haurán) inter Irbid et 
Bosrah; floret Maio. 
XVIII. LILIACEZ. 
BELLEVALIA CILIATA, Cyr., var. PANICULATA.  Elata plus 
minusve paniculata 2-3-pedalis, pedunculi 5-6 pollices longi, 
foliorum margines non ciliati. 
Hab. prope a Husn Suleiman, montibus Nusairiyah, Syrie 
borealis. 
XIX. ASPARAGER. 
ASPARAGUS Lowneı, Baker, var. catcaratus. Folia basi 
calcarata. 
Hab. ad pontem novum Jordanis. 
XX. GRAMINE. 
ALOPECURUS INVOLUCRATUS. Perennis, radice premorsa fibros 
edente, culmis geniculatis decumbentibus scabriusculis, foliis 
linearibus minute scabridulis vaginis inferioribus cylindricis 
superioribus utriculoso-inflatis, pedunculo clavato superne in 
involucrum glabrum scariosum cyathiforme parallele nervosum 
panicula ovata vel oblonga triplo brevius explanato, ramis 1- 
