273 LEGUMINOS^. (pulse FAMILY.) 



and ending in a long spiny tip ; stij^ules lanceolate, hirsute, tapering ; 

 leaflets 6-7 pairs, lanceolate^ long -acuminate^ .035 long, .007 broad at 

 base, prickly, glabrescent. Heads ovate, dense, a little larger than 

 a hen's tg^ ; bracts linear, long -tapering^ conduplicate, hirsute except 

 at base, scarcely shorter than calyx ; calyx .02 long, villous, teeth 

 as long as tube — Summer — Grassy places ; Aintab. 



90. A. Oaillardoti, Boiss. 5 .3 to A. Petioles .1 long, 

 ending in a long, slender spine ; stipules long-tapering from a triangu- 

 lar base, hirsute, ciliate, leaflets 5-6 pairs, ovate-oblong, .015 to .02 

 long, remote, stiff, appressed-puberulent, nerved, tapering abruptly in- 

 to a long prickle. Axils few-flowered, forming ovate heads larger 

 than a walnut, at base of twius ; bracts linear, tapering, conduplicate, 

 appressed-hirsute toward tip, longer than calyx -tube ; calyx hirsute, 

 teeth wavy-curved, as long as tube — Summer — Qal'at- Jendel (Her- 

 mon.) 



91. A. longifolius. Lam. 5 -^ to .4, petioles .12 to .18 long, 

 ending in a spine mucli shorter than leaflets; leaflets 10-14 pairs, oblong- 

 lanceolate, .02 to .03 long, tapering into a weak prickle, glabrescent ; 

 stipules lanceolate, villous. Head smaller than an Qg^^ ovate-globu- 

 lar ; bracts oUong-laficeolate, ioat-shaped, ciliate, as long as calyx ; 

 calyx villous, teeth straight, a little longer than tube — Summer — 

 Subalpine Hermon. 



92. A. Forskalilei, Boiss. 5 Thimrah. .2 to .5, appressed- 

 canescent ; branches beset with stout, .03 long, spreading spines. 

 Leaflets 4-5 pairs, those of the new branches remote ; axillary leaves 

 deciduous, ending in a minute prickle, leaflets crowded ; the leaflets 

 of both kinds of leaves olovate-oUong, muticous. Peduncles axillary, 

 short, 1-2-flowered ; calyx j^uherulent, tubular, m fruit ovate, about 40- 

 nermd, teeth subulate — March and April — Syrian Desert between 

 Qaryetein and Palmyra to Damascus, Jordan Valley, and southward 

 to Sinai and Egypt. 



93. A. Riis§elii, Boiss. 5 '^ *^ '^j much branched. Spines 

 spreading, the younger ones sparingly hispid, at length glabrescent. 

 Leaves of branches .03 to .05 long, with 4-6 pairs of leaflets, leaves of 

 axils much shorter ; leaflets oblong to liiuar -elliptical, obtuse, mucron- 

 ulate. Peduncles very short, 1-2-flowered ; calyx tubular, l^-nerved, 

 reddish, sparingly appressed-hairy, in fruit globular, whitish, glabres- 

 cent, teeth minute, triangular — Alarch and April — Aleppo to Aintp-b, 

 and north-eastward. 



94. A. coluteoides, Willd. 5 -1 ^^ '^^ woolly-canescent ; 

 branches thick -set with spreading, .05 to .1 long, stout spines, the 

 younger ones pul escent. Stipules translucent, wavy, ovate-lanceolate ; 

 leaflets 15-20 pairs, flatfish, ovate, mucronulate, the lowest .003 long, 



. gradually diminishing toward tip of leaf. Scapes nearly as long as 

 leaves ; racemes few-flowered, generally rather loose ; calyx appressed- 

 woolly, tubular, in fruit ovate-globular, red-nerved, teeth lanceo- 

 late, one-third to one-fourth as long as tube — Summer — Alpine 

 Lebanon and Hermon. 



95. A. Ya§^iuans, DC. 5 -'^i ^^ ^j glabrescent ; branches 

 straight, or ascending. Stipules membranous, sheathing, for .01 to 

 .03 of their length, and adnate to petiole, the free part lanceolate- 



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