RRSEDACE^E. (MIGNONETTE FAMILY.) Ill 



* Fruit baccate. Desert shrubs ; branches spinescent ; leaves deciduous. 



1. OCHRADENUS. Petals 0. Disk one-sided. Capsule closed. 



* * Fruit a 1-celled, 3-6-lobed, 3A-homed capsule, 



2. RESEDA. Petals 4-8, the upper with dissected hmb. Disk one-sided, 



3. OLIGOMERIS. Petals 2, entire or lobed. Disk 0. Annuals with entire leaves. 



* * * Fruit a capsule composed of 6 cells, connate at base. 



4. CAYLUSEA, Petals 5, the upper with dissected limb. Disk one-sided. 



1. OCHRAI>EMUS, Del. Ochradenus. 



Sepals 5-6. Petals 0. Disk expanded above. Stamens 10-15. Ovary 

 3-toothed. Capsule closed, fleshy, baccate — A shrub with intricate, 

 rigid, at length leafless, spinescent branches. 



O. baccatus, DC. ^ QurdliaJi. 1 to 6, glabrous. Leaves linear. 

 Flowers very short-pedicelled. Capsules obovate-globular — Spring — 

 Around the Dead Sea, and southward. 



2. RESEDA, L. Mignonette. Khuzdm. 



Sepals 4-8. Petals 4-8, the upper more or less dissected. Disk one- 

 sided, the upper part plicate. Stamens 10-40. Ovary 3-4-toothed. Pod 

 3-6-aagled or lobed with gaping mouth — Monocarpic or perennial, 

 branching herbs, with entire or 1 3-ternate or 1-2 pinnatifid leaves. 



* Flowers 5-Q-77ierous. Pods erect, ^-toothed. Leaves 1-2-pinnatisecL 



•1. R. alba, L. 0. White Mignonette. .6 to 1, glabrous or 

 sparingly papillary. Flowers large, racemose-spiked ; 

 petals twice as long as calyx ; fruiting pedicels longer FiG. 61 

 than calyx ; pod ellipsoid-cylindrical, .01 to .015 long, — 

 Spring — Fields and roadsides, and often hanging from 

 walls ; common. 



2. R. propinqua, R. Br. @ .1 to .3, nearly 

 glabrous, branching at base. Leaves mostly near base. 

 Flowers minute, spihed ; petals a little longer than se- 

 pals ; pod almost sessile, ohovate to oblong, .005 long, — 

 Spring — Deserts and dry places ; from Hama and 

 Palmyra to Et-Tih, and southward. ^""^ "^ ^' ^^^^* 



Var. folio§a. Post. .3 to. 4 ; stems leafy above ; spikes looser. 

 Between El-Hurmul ,and Riblah ; Jericho. 



** Fhwen 6-S-merous. Pods d-toothed. Leaves entire or 1-2-ternate-cut, 

 sometimes pinnate. 



t Sepals persistent. 



I Pods at length pendulous. Seeds pitted^ wrinkled. 



§ Ovmy not stipitate. Filaments persistent. 



3, R. Arabica, Boiss. .1 to .25, sparingly pruinose. Lowest 

 leaves simple, oblong-linear, upper ternate, with linear to lanceolate 

 lobes, sometimes wavy. Pedicels longer and petals shorter than calyx ; 

 pods n^a/rly globular — Spring — Border of Et-Tih, and southward. 



