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spreading, sharp, much longer than leaves, sometimes .03 long ; leaves 

 nearly sessile, the lower with 3, the upper with 1, oblong-linear to 

 linear, minute leaflets. Sepals rather glabrous, lanceolate, long-a- 

 cuminate ; petals pale flesh-colored, twice to twice and a half as long 

 as calyx — Spring — Et-Tih to Sinai. 



6. F. Olivieri, DC. 5 -^ to .3, green, more -or less sprinkled 

 with sessile glands ; branches erect ; internodes long. Spines spread- 

 ing, nearly equalling the leaves ; leaves nearly sessile all simple^ ob- 

 long-linear, rigid, .015 long. Sepals hirsute, oblong-lanceolate ; petals 

 pale flesh colored, twice as long as calyx — Early summer — Cojlesyria, 

 Suq-Wadi-Barada and Dummar to Aleppo, Nisib, and eastward in the 

 Syrian desert. 



X \ Flowers from .01 to .02 hroad. 



7. F. mollis, Del. 5 -l^ to -3, hispid, yellowish-glandular ; 

 branches erect ; internodes generally short. 



Spines hispid, longer than petiole, often Fig. 80. 



as long as the leaves ; leaves crowded, 



with 3, large, fleshy, ovate, obtuse, mu- 



cronate leaflets of nearly equal size, much 



longer than petiole. Sepals ovate, hairy ; 



petals pink, .01 long, nearly thrice as long 



as calyx — Spring — Moab to Et-Tih, Sinai, 



and Egyptian desert. 



Var. g-randiflora, Post. Glabrous 

 or glabrescent. Internodes sometimes 



elongated. Spines stouter. Petals often '^"^^"^ ^"'^ ^'''^^' "^ ^- '°°"^'' 

 .03 long — Judean desert to Wadi 'Arabah (F. grandijlora, Boiss.) 

 * * Young branches rather terete, striped, 



8. F. Arabica, L. 5 ^Aqul-el-Ghazdl. Oemdeh. Had. Shuweikah, 

 ShauMn. .3 to .4, sparingly glandular ; branches erect. Spines longer 

 than leaves, often as long as or longer than internodes ; petiole as long 

 as or longer than the linear, acute, leaflets. Sepals oblong-lanceolate, 

 glandular ; petals pale pink, twice as long as calyx — Spring — jVIoab 

 to Sinai and Egypt. 



Order XXV. OERAXIACEJE. (Geranium Family.) 



Herbs, sometiines shrubby below, with tumid joints, 

 jpahnately veined or lobed, or innnatisect, stipuled leaves, 

 hypogynous, h-merous flowers, imbricated sepals, convolute 

 or imbricated petals, stamens slightly monadelphous or 5- 

 adelphous at base, ovary composed of 5 carpels, more or less 

 coherent to a prolonged axis, from which they separate at 

 maturity — Flowers (except in Pel argon iuu) nearly or quite 

 regular, petals usually alternating with glands. Stamens 5- 

 15, all fertile, or part sterile. Ovules 2-1, semi-anatropous, 

 pendulous. Carpels splitting along inner face (in Monsonia 

 indeliiscent). Seeds with little or no alhumen. Cotyledons 

 bent down on the short radicle. 



