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carpels, or splitting down the middle of the valves — With exception 

 of Z. simplex, perennial herbs, shrubs, or small trees, with solitary, 

 axillary, 1 -flowered peduncles, stipulate, fleshy, opposite leaves, com- 

 posed (in ours) of one pair of leaflets, or simple. 



* Capsule with wings as broad as or broader than the cells. 



1. Z. dumosum, Boiss. 5 -^ *^ 1-'^? appressed-caneseent ; 

 branches tortuous^ short. Leaflets terete, oblong-cylindrical nearly as 

 long as petiole. Peduncles slender, axillary, as long as calyx, lengthen- 

 ing in fruit ; sepals^j^je, hairy, oblong ; petals ^ve', oblong-spathulate, 

 twice and a half as long as calyx ; scales round-ovate., obtuse^ denticulate 

 at apex ; capsule .01 broad, oblate-spheroidal; carpels 5, free almost 

 to axis, flattened, w^ing sometohat broader than cell — Spring — Around 

 the Dead Sea, and from borders of Et-Tih southward to 'Aqaba. 



2. Z. eiirypteriini, Boiss. et Buhse. 5 -^ ^^ 1.5, branches 

 elongated. Leaves simjyle, scurfy^ oblong or obovate, tapering into a 

 short petiole. Peduncles somewhat longer than calyx ; sepals and 

 petals four., obtuse, the latter twice as long as the former ; scales 



fringed ; capsule .02 to .03 broad, oblate-spheroidal, retuse at base and 

 apex, wings /(9i^r times as broad as cells — Spring — Hamath to Palmyra. 



* * Ga2Jsule angled, loingless. 



3. Z. §implex, L. Jarmal. Qurmah. ^Adhir. .2 to .4, gla- 

 brous, pwsiraie, herbaceous, branching from base. Leaves smpZg, sessile, 

 cylindrical, .005 to .01 long, fleshy, obtuse. Peduncles as long as calyx; 

 sepals obovate ; petals spathulate ; scales biparted ; capsule .002 broad, 

 wrinkled, top-shaped, deeply parted into 5, flattened carpels — 

 Spring — Sinai. 



4. Z3 Fabago, L. If .5 to 1, glabrous, erect, herbaceous. Leaf- 

 lets obovate-oblong, .03 long, longer than petiole. Peduncles somewhat 

 shorter than calyx ; sepals oblong, .01 long, nearly as long as the 

 wedge-shaped, retuse petals ; scales fringed, papillary ; capsule .03 

 \ong, oblong-cylindrical, acutely 5 angled — Spring and early summer 

 — (Palestine ?) Damascus to Aintab, and northward and eastward. 



5. Z, album, L. ^ KJiuraisi. Hamd. Ullam. Botn-el Bahsandn. 

 Bizz Kelbeh. Belbel. Bawdl. .3 to 1, cobicebby-canescent ; branches ascen- 

 ding. Leaflets fleshy, obovate, .004 to .01 long, somewhat shorter than 

 the fleshy, terete petiole. Peduncles much shorter than calyx ; sepals 

 ovate-oblong ; petals white, spathulate, a third longer than calyx ; 

 scales ovate-oblong, £ntire ; capsule splierical-top-sliaped, the upper 

 third of the 5, acute-angled carpels free — Spring — Salt marshes and 

 hot valleys about Dead Sea, and southward to Egypt. 



6. T. coccincuni, L. 5 (lillad). GMsid. Belhel. Bawdl. .5 to 1.5, 

 younger shoots canescent, at length glabrous ; branches ascending or 

 erect. Leaflets oblong or cylindrical, obtuse, .005 to .01 long, shorter 

 than the fleshy petiole. Peduncles longer than the Jiower ; sepals ovate, 

 hooded ; petals w^hite or pinl', spathulate, acuminate, nearly twice as 

 long as calyx ; scales ovate, retuse ; capsule .008 to .01 long, cylindri- 

 caZ, '5 -angled, apex broader, truncate — February to April — Around the 

 Dead Sea, and southward to Sinai. 



