900 Globulariaceae. 
enlarging after flowering. Corolla yellow, 5'/,—6 mm long; upper 
lip ovate-rotundate, entire or subentire, 2—z'/, mm long; lower 
lip subquadrate, 2'/, mm long, slightly 2-lobed or almost entire; 
palate much raised, obscurely 2-gibbous, minutely papillose, margin 
spreading or deflexed; spur conic, obtuse, spreading, as long as or 
somewhat longer than the lower lip. Filaments curved, dilated 
upwards, 1 mm long; anthers ellipsoid, 0,5 mm long. Ovary sub- 
globose; style very short, but distinct; upper stigma-lobe obscure; 
lower rotundate. Capsule globose, 2—5 mm in diam.; seeds 
numerous, lenticular, 1 mm in diam., with a thin corky or trans- 
parent, somewhat irregular, and often eroded wing around the 
margin, hilum excentric. Kmbryo lenticular, slightly emarginate, 
undifferentiated. — Flow. February to March. 
O. Little Oasis; Dakhel; Great Oasis. 
Also in Tripolitania and South Africa, Algeria, Portugal, and from India 
to China and Australia. 
103. Globulariaceae. 
Herbs or shrubs with perfect, irregular flowers, in globular, 
involucrate heads, with oblique, usually bilabiate corolla, 4 didynam- 
ous stamens inserted on the corolla-tube, confluent, 1-celled anthers, 
bifid stigma, a 1l-celled, free ovary, with 1, pendulous, anatropous 
ovule; fruit an indehiscent utricle, with terete embryo in the axis 
of the albumen; radicle superior. — Calyx 5-cleft or-parted, equal 
or bilabiate, persistent. Corolla sometimes obliquely 1-lipped. 
A small family widely distributed in the Mediterranean region. 
511. Globularia Linn. 
Calyx turbinate or campanulate at the base. Corolla with short 
tube, upper lip bipartite or 0, lower 3-parted or -dentate. Stamens 
inserted at the throat; anthers versatile. Style bidentate at the 
apex. Fruit included in calyx, oblong. — Genus distinguished by 
its globular heads of blue flowers. 
A small genus widely distributed in the Mediterranean region. 
1251. Globularia arabica Jaub. and Spach Illustr. Plant. Or. IIL 
(1847—1850), p.76 tab. 260. — Boiss. Flor. Or. IV, p..580. — 
Aschers.-Schweinf. Ill. Flor. d’Kg., p.119 no. 807. — Aschers. Flor. 
Rhinocol., p. 802 no. 198. — Aschers.-Schweinf. Ill, Flor. d’Kg., 
Supplem. p. 770. — Sickenberg. Contrib. Flor. d’Kg.,. p. 266. — 
Aschers.-Schweinf. Primit. Flor. Marmaric., p, 261 no, 240. — A 
shrubby plant, 30—50 cm high or sometimes somewhat more, 
