48 BERBEHIDACE^. (BARBERRY FAMILY.) 



B. chrysogonum, L. If ^urf-ud-dih. — Leaves pin- -pm. 5. 

 natisect, segments sessile, obovate-cuneate. 3-6 fid at apex, 

 opposite, or in whorls of 4 at the lower part of the leaf. 

 Stem loosely panicled with scales at the base of the 

 branches. Capsule ovate-oMo?ig, 0.01 m. long — Early Spring 

 — Fields, Syria and Palestine to 1,000 m. Root used as a 

 remedy for Epilepsy. 



2. LEO^TICE, L. Lion's Leaf. 



Sepals 6, bracts 0. Petals 6, with a stipitate scale at 

 inner face of base. Stamens 6. Style short, stigma obtuse, 

 indistinct. Ovules 2-4 basilar Capsule inflated, seeds 

 globular — Glabrous herbs, with root as in last, and leafy 

 stem. 



Li, leontopetalum, L. 2f KTiamirat Adhdr. Leaves 

 Mternatisecty leaflets ovate or obovate, rarely subcordate. 

 Inflorescence a large, dense, leafy panicle. Bracts oblong, 

 much shorter than the pedicels. Capsule round-ovate,0.02 m. 

 to 0.03 long — Early Spring — Fields, Syria and Palestine to 

 1,000 m. Root used as a remedy for Epilepsy. Bongardia 



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Var. oblong^ifolium, Post. Leaves 2-3-ternatisect. num, l. 

 Leaflets oblong, obtuse, truncate or retuse, cuspidate — Aintab. 



3. BERBERIS, L. Barberry. Berleris. 



Sepals 6, bracteolate. Petals 6, concave, with two glands at inner 

 aspect of base. Stamens 6. Stigma peltate. Berry with 3-3 subbasilar, 

 erect seeds — Shrubs with 3-5-parted thorns. 



B. cretica, L. 5 Low. Leaves firm, nearly sessile, obovate- 

 elliptical, entire, or slightly serrate, hardly as long as 3 -parted thorns. 

 Racemes few-flowered, corymbose, shorter than leaves. Berries ellip- 

 soid, blach — Summer — Lebanon and Antilebanon, above 1,200 m. B. 

 crat(Bgina, B. C. is a variety of this species with longer leaves and 

 exserted racemes. 



Order IIL IVYIWPHiEACEiE. (Water-Lily Family.) 

 AquatiG perennial herhs, with submerged root-stocks, 

 and floating or emersed cordate or peltate leaves^ and floating 

 or emersed flowers / the ovules i^arietal, and the embryo en- 

 closed in a small sac at the end of the albumen, next to the 

 hilum. — Flowers regular, axillary, solitary. Torus fleshy, 

 urn-shaped, enclosing carpels. Sepals 4-5, inserted at base 

 of torus. Petals numerous, inserted in many rows into the 

 torus. Stamens indefinite, in many rows inserted into the 

 torus ; anthers adnate. Fruit berry-like consisting of the 

 fleshy torus, enclosing carpels, which adhere to it and one 

 another. 

 1. :NY]»IPIIiEA, L. Water-Lily. Watee-Nymph. Ul-Haudhdn. 



Sepals 4, green outside, nearly free. Petals destitute of a nectar- 

 bearing pore, inserted over the whole torus. Stamens inserted on the 



