Page 46. After B. Cappadocicum. I>. flavum, D. C. © .4 to 



.5, hirsute-viscidulous, branching from base and above, branches rigid. 

 Floral leaves short, undivided. Flowers .008 long, yellow, loosely ra- 

 cemed ; petal 3-toothed at tip, the lateral teeth longer, half-ovate, the 

 middle tooth short, broad, denticulate ; spur as long as petal, curved 

 upward; capsule oblong, .01 to .015 long, tapering at base, aJrwpiZy 

 cuspidate — July — Palmyrene Desert. 



Page 47. After D. Bovei. I>. Ainaiii, Post. (Bull. Herb. Boiss. 

 Ill, p. 152). 2| .6 to 1; root of 1-2, oblong tubers; stem glabrous, 

 terete. Leaves glabrous except at ciliate margins and sparingly hairy 

 nerves, the lower .2 to .3 broad, palmately parted into overlapping, 

 obovate-oblong, cuneate, obtusely incised, lobed and toothed segments. 

 Raceme .1 to .3 long, rather dense; floral leaves linear, acute, the lower 

 longer, the upper shorter than blue, .025 long, flowers; peduncles 

 recurved, club-shaped, two-bracted at or below middle, bearded with 

 yellow hairs; spur once and a half as long as sepals, straight; ovaries 

 glabrous — August and September — Subalpine Amanus. 



Page 47. After D. Ithaburense. 

 ♦ * * * Follicles 3-5. Petals separate, entire, the upper falcate, short- 

 spurred, the lower clawed. 



D. I^tapliysagria. L. © Stavesacre. .5, soft-hirsute. Raceme 

 elongated, often branched at base. Leaves palmately parted into 5-7, 

 lenticular, acute, entire or trifid lobes ; peduncles ,twice as long as 

 flower, 2-bracted; spur obtuse, one-fifth as long as sepals; limb of 

 lower petals obovate-lanceolate ; capsule inflated, hirsute — June — 

 Rashein (Lebanon). 



Page 47. Before BERBERIDACE JE. 

 MENISPERHACEiE, D. C. (Moon-Seed Family). 



Woody climlers with ohlong^ oltuse leaves, 7io stijndes, 

 hypogynous, dioecious or polygamous flowers, (ours) 6- an- 

 droids and Z-gynous, sejpals and petals six, in two rows, irn- 

 Iricated in the lud ; fruit a 1-seeded drupe, (ours) with, 

 scanty albumen, and an incurved c??i5ry (9 — Carpels free, 

 inserted on the receptacle, style 1. Ovules solitary in carpels, 

 amphitropous, attached to ventral suture. 



COCCUEUS, D. C. CoccuLus. 



Upper sepals larger. Petals 

 shorter than sepals. Anthers 

 4-lobed. Styles erect or re- 

 curved, undivided. Drupe com- 

 pressed, the scar of the style 

 near the base; stone tubercled 

 at back, deeply excavated at 

 sides ; seed horseshoe-shaped ; 

 cotyledons linear, flat. 



C. Eeaeba, Del. 5 Crlau- 

 cous, puberulent ; branches 



(a) Piece of pistillate plant of Menispermum 

 Leseba. (6) Piece of of starainate plant of same. 



slender, " elongated somewhat twining. Leaves oblong, subsessile. 

 Cymes few-flowered, short-peduncled, axillary — Summer — Sinai. 



