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LEGUMINOS.E. (PULSE FAMILY.) 



long tube ; corolla yelloic^ scarcely twice as long as calyx ; pods dejiexedj 

 linear, somewhat flattened, .06 long, .002 thick, almost semicircular^ 

 appressed white- and black-hirsute — Spring — Damascus to Hauran, 

 El Ghor, southern Palestine and et-Tih. 



112. A. Amalecitanus, ^ A, appressed-silky, shrubby at 

 base, tufted; stems erect. Stipules elongated, yellow, ^-toothed, cilia- 

 ted, glabrous; leaves short ; leaflets 3-4 pairs, croicded, oUong, acutish, 

 .005 long. Peduncles somewhat longer than leaf ; flowers 4-5, capitate, 

 .025 long ; calyx at length split, loosely black-aud white-hispid, teeth 

 one-third as long as tube ; corolla * * ; immature pods oblong, ses- 

 sile, acute, white-hispid, scarcely longer than calyx — Spring — About 

 Gaza. 



113. A. Cameloriim, Barbey 5 -^ to .3 or more, stem shrub- 

 by. Stipules subconnate, oblong-ovate, ciliate, mucronate, .004 long ; 

 leaves .05 to .06 long ; leaflets 2-4 pairs, conduplicate, oblong, .008 

 long, .002 broad, distant. Flowers 6 or more in a raceme, .012 long; 

 peduncle almost ; calyx white- and black hairy, teeth one-fifth as 

 long as tube, half as long as pale, purplish-yellow, .03 long corolla ; 

 ovary oblong-ovoid — Spring — Bir. Mas'ud, at western border of et-Tih, 



114. A. angnstifoliiis, Lam. 5 -^^o ,4, erinaceous ; branch- 

 es beset with spreading, .02 to .05 long spines. Leaflets 6-10 pairs, ob- 

 long to oblong-linear, conduplicate. Peduncles much shorter than 

 leaves ; raceme few-flowered, cajntate ; calyx appressed- white and of- 

 ten black-hairy, teeth subulate, one-half to one-third as long as tube ; 

 pod once and a half as long as calyx, oblong, somewhat triquetrous, 

 appressed-canescent, mucronate — Summer — Alpine Lebanon and Anti- 

 lebanon to Cassius and Amanus, and northward. 



115. A. Heriiioneiis, Boiss. 5 -^ to .6 densely erinaceous, 

 thick-set with .03 to .04 long, stout spines. Leaflets 7-8 pairs, minute, 

 dbovate, conduplicate, obtuse or retuse. Peduncles shorter than leaf, 

 ending in a short, 3-4'flowered raceme ; calyx sparingly black-hairy, 

 teeth one-fourth to one-fifth as long as tube ; pods twice as long as 

 calyx, oblong-cylindrical, .013 long, .003 thick, acute, mucronate, 

 glabrous or sparingly puberulent — Summer — Alpine Lebanon and 

 Antilebanon ; Jebel-ed-Duruz. Yig. 146. 



32. BISERRUL.A, L. Biserrula. 



Calyx bell-shaped, nearly equally 5-tootlied. Stan- 

 dard ovate. "Wings free. Keel obtuse, somewhat 

 shorter than wings. Pod many-seeded, linear, inde- 

 hiscent, flattened contrary to partition, divided with- 

 in by a very narrow, median, longitudinal septum 

 connecting the sutures ; margin pinnate-dentate. 



B. Pelecinus, L. © .3 to .4, appressed- 

 hairy, difEuse. Stipules free, membranous, ovate ; 

 leaflets 8-15 pairs, obovate-oblong, retuse. Peduncles 

 nearly as long as leaves ; racemes short, somewhat 

 capitate, few-flowered, rather loose ; corolla small, 

 bluish — Spring — Fields ; common to 2000 m. 



Pod of Biserrul 

 Pelecinus. 



