SIMARUBEiK. (SIMARUBA FAMILY.) 199 



T. §al§a, Stev. .1 to .2, branching from neck. Leaves pin- 

 natisect, the floral lobed at base. Flowers in spike-like, scorpioid ra- 

 cemes— Spring —Merj (Damascus). 



5. PEOAKlJ]»I, L. Peganum. Rharmall. 



Calyx 5-parted, persistent, open in bud. Petals 5, imbricated. Sta- 

 mens 13-15, inserted with petals at base of short disk, naked, dilated 

 at base. Ovary globular, 3-4-celled. Style triangular. Ovules nu- 

 merous, suspended at central angle by a short funicle. Capsule 3-valved, 

 loculicidal. Seeds angular, with a spongy shell — Erect herbs or shrubs,' 

 with irregularly dissected leaves, bristle-shaped, minute stipules, and 

 terminal white flowers opposite the leaves. 



P. Harmala, L. 11 Olialqat-ed-Dib. Kharjil. Earemlcm. Hharmall. 

 .5 to 1, glabrous ; stems herbaceous, forked, branched, corymbose. 

 Lobes of leaves linear, acute. Petals oblong-elliptical, somewhat 

 shorter than calyx ; capsule erect, depressed at tip — Spring and early 

 summer. 



The order AURAKTIACEiE, altliough not indigenous in 

 Western Asia, is represented in cultivation in our district by the follow- 

 ing species, all originally from India. 



1, Citrus Aurantium, L. Orange. Burteqdn (a corruption 

 of Bartuglial, Portugal, perhaps because some prized varieties were in- 

 troduced from that country). 



2. C. Madarensis, L. Mandarin Orange. Tusuf Effendi. 



3, C. Bigarada, Duh. Bitter Orange. Seville Orange. Narinj. 

 Kuhdeid. 



4, C Ijimonuin, Risso. Lemon. Leimun Hhamidh. Leimun 

 murdkdbi. Leimun mdlihh. 



5. C. Liimonum, Var. dulcis. Sweet Lemon. Leimun Elielu. 



6. C. 



Order XXVIII. SIJUARrBEiE, Rich. (Simaruba Family). 



Trees or shrubs, with glandless leaves, dicecioxis, jpoly- 

 gamous, or hermaphrodite flowers, an imbricated, Z-h-l6bed or 

 parted calyx, S-5 petals, an anrndar or elongated disk, 

 stamens as many as petals or doiible their mimher, inserted 

 at hase of dish, and a %h-ceUed and loled ovary — Ovules 

 solitary, anatropoiis, pendnlous beneath the apex of the cell, 

 with a ventral raphe and superior micropyle. Fruit various. 

 Seeds albuminous ; embryo ovoid. 



BALAIVITEIS, Del. Balanites. Zaqqum. 



Flowers hermaphrodite. Sepals 5, deciduous, concave. Petals 5, 

 oblong, imbricated. Disk 10-grooved, hollowed at apex. Stamens 5, 

 filaments naked. Ovary half- immersed in the cavity at the apex of the 



