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broad. Bracts linear, scarious ; pedicels setaceous, 2-3 times as long 

 as calyx ; calyx .0015 long, campanulate, wliite-tuberded, teetb ovate, 

 obtuse, membranous-margined ; limb pink, oblong, somewhat shorter 

 than calyx — July and August — Akherdagh and northward. 



5, O. Damascena, Boiss. 2J! .3 to .4, glabrous ; stems slen- 

 der, ending in a glabrous, rarely glandular panicle. Leaves fleshy, 

 oblong, .01 to .015 long, .002 to .004 broad, acute, 3-nerved, the 

 lateral nerves marginal anastomosing with the intermediate. Bracts 

 minute, lanceolate, scarious ; pedicels setaceous, 4-6 times as long as 

 calyx ; calyx campanulate, .002 long, teeth oblong, obtuse, mem- 

 branous-margined ; limb wJiite^ as long as calyx — June and July — 

 Dry hills ; Um-Jemal (Moab) to Damascus, Antilebanon, and north- 

 ward. 



6, O. ruicifolia, Boiss. 2^ .8 to 1, glabrous ; stems slender, 

 erect, leafy below, ending in a diffuse, sometimes glandular panicle, 

 Leaves coriaceous, OTiate or oblong^ .01 to .012 long, acute, 5-7-nerved, 

 strongly netted- veined, those of the sterile branches rounded at base, 

 thosG of stem, deeply cordate 07' connate at hase. Bracts awl-shaped with 

 red midrib; pedicels capillary, 3-6 times as long as calyx ; calyx cam- 

 panulate, .0015 long, red-nerved, teeth ovate, scarious-margined, obtuse; 

 limb pink, linear, nearly twice as long as calyx — June — Lebanon, 

 Coelesyria, and Antilebanon, to AintSb and northward. 



Var. latifolia, Post. Leaves triangular-ovate, broader than long, 

 truncate at base and connate. 



7. O. elegrans, M. B.;0 or 21 .3 to .4, glabrous ; stem corym* 

 bose-panicled. Lower leaves small, oblong-spathulate, the others linear- 

 lanceolate, acute. Bracts minute, scarious ; pedicels capillary, many 

 times as long as calyx; calyx hemispherical, .002 long, teeth ovate, 

 obtuse, scarious-margined ; limb pink, linear-wedge-shaped, truncate, 

 retuse, 2-5 times as long as calyx — May to July — Moist places ; Sinai. 



8. O. Ti§cosa, Murr. .15 to .3, glabrescent below, viscid 

 above; stemflexuous, dichotomous almost from base, corymbose-panicu- 

 late. Leaves slightly connate, oblong-lanceolate, .01 to .04 long, .003 to 

 .01 broad, acuminate. Bracts minute, triangular-acuminate,_ scarious ; 

 pedicels setaceous, 3 to 4 times as long as calyx ; calyx hemispherical, 

 .0015 long, teeth ovate, obtuse, scarious-margined ; limb pink, wedge- 

 shaped, truncate-retuse, longer than calyx — May and June — Hauran 

 to Damascus, and northward. 



9, G. ortegibides, F. et Mey. 5 -2 to .5, minutely pruinose ; 

 stems numerous, flexuous, much branched. Leaves awl-shaped .005 to 

 .015 long. BrdiCts awl-shaped, green ; ^ov^erQ sessile, forming terminal 

 racemes; calyx obconical-tubular, .004 long, teeth lanceolate, acute, 

 limb obovate, white, jDurple-veined, half as long as calyx — September 

 — Ziaretdagh (Amanus) and northward. 



10. O. frankeiiioide§, Boiss. If .3, glandular-puberulent ; 

 stems prostrate, tufted ; branches slender. Leaves clustered, atcl-shaped 

 .005 long. Flowers mostly solitary in the upp>er and terminal axils; 

 pedicels somewhat shorter than the sparingly hairy, tubular-campanu- 



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