188 ZYGOPHYLLE^. (ZYGOPHYLLUM FAMILY.) 



5. FAOO^IA, L. Fagonia. Ehaldweh. 



Sepals 5, imbricated, mucronate, deciduous. Petals 5, clawed, 

 imbricated in the bud. Stamens 10, with naked filaments. Ovary ses- 

 sile, 5-celled ; style awl-shaped, o-angled ; stigma simple. Ovules 2, 

 side by side at base of cell, attached by ascending funicles. Fruit 

 pyramidal, 5-angled, separating from the axis into 5 carpels dehiscent 

 along their inner angle, 1-seeded. Seeds flattened, oblong, with muci- 

 laginous testa — Perennial, much-branched, often prostrate herbs, 

 with opposite leaves, composed of 1-3, mucronate leaflets ; stipules 

 generally spiny or prickly ; the peduncles inserted between the 

 stipules, solitary, 1-flowered. 



* Young dranches somewhat 4:-angled, with grooved surface. 



t Stipules pricMy, small, much shorter than leaves. 



1, F. gUitinosa, Del. If Shika'ah. Medahin. .3 to .4, canes- 

 cent with viscid, sessile glands, which are often Yiq 79 

 covered with adherent sand ; ^YOQiviiiQ \mtQViiodie^ 

 long. Petiole shorter than obtuse or somewhat 

 tapering ovate-rhomboid to obovate or oblong 

 .005 to .008 long leaflets. Sepals ovate-oblong, 

 half as long as pale-pink corolla — Spring — 

 Hot valleys about the Dead Sea, and southward 

 to Sinai. a & 



Var. grandiflora, Boiss. Petals thrice («) Capsule of f giutinosa (6) 



as long as calyx. Transverse section of the same 



2, F. Cretica, L. If ,2 to .3, prostrate, intricately bra nched, 

 green. Leaves all of 3, linear -lanceolate, acute leaflets, the lateral as 

 long as petiole, the middle longer. Sepals papillary ; oblong ; petals 

 purple, thrice as long as calyx — Spring — Jebel Usdum to Sinai. 



3, F. Kaliirina, Boiss. If. Hhaldicat-et-Tih. .2 to .3, some- 

 what glandular, green ; branches dichotomous, crowded, spreading. 

 Upper leaves often of 1 leaflet, the others of 3, ovate-oblong to oblong, 

 rather obtuse, about as long as petiole, the terminal usually longer. 

 Sepals glandular, hairy, ovate ; petals pink, 3-5 times as long as^calyx 



— Spring — Ghor-et-Safieh to et-Tih, and southward to Egypt. 



Var. Sinaica, Boiss. More glandular ; flowers rather smaller — 

 Sinai. 



Var. minima, Post. .1 to .2. Leaflets .002 to .004 long. Plant 

 smaller, green — Et-Tih. 



1 1 Stipules spiny, as long as or longer than leaves. 



X Flowers minute. 



4, F, Brug-uieri, DC. 71 .2 to .3, pale green, minutely glan- 

 dular ; branches crowded, procumbent, short ; internodes short. Spines 

 a little longer than leaves ; leaves short-petioled, the lower with 3, 

 the upper with 1, ovate-oblong, fleshy, mucronate leaflets. Sepals 

 puberulent, ovate ; petals pale pink, twice as long as calyx — Spring 



— Syrian desert from Aleppo southward to Sinai. 



5, F. myriacantha, Boiss. 2/ .1 to .2, sparingly glandular, 

 pale green ; branches numerous, prostrate ; internx>des long. Spines 



