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elliptical, mucronate. Spikes oblong, rather loose, elongated in fruit ; 

 corolla pink, nearly .01 long ; pods obovate-orbiciilar, .005 long, deep- 

 ly and unequally pitted at disk, with 4-5 prickles on loth sides, and crest 

 naiTower than clisk, armed with 3-4 t/riangular pricHes — May and June 

 — Dry hills ; Moab and Ham-an, Damascus, Antilebanon, and north- 

 ward. 



§. O. Kotschyana, Fenzl. 2C .3 to .6, appressed hirsute ; 

 stems erect or procumbent, wavy above. Leaflets 3-7 pairs, oblong- 

 elliptical to linear, striate. Peduncles somewhat forked ; spikes at 

 length very long, loose ; corolla light pink, .008 to .01 long ; pods 

 obovate, .006 long, with a deeply and unequally few-pitted, unarmed or 

 2-3-prickly disk ; crest armed with 2-3, triangular-subulate prickles, 

 the apex often truncate^ ^-horned — May and June — Lebanon and Anti- 

 lebanon to Damascus, Aleppo, Palmyra, and eastward. 



X X Thoi'ny shrubs with flowers in short racemes. 



9. O. cornuta, L. 5 •'^ ^o -^i intricately branched, thicJc-tet 

 with stout, spinescent petioles, more or less canescent-silky or woolly. 

 Leaflets 2-4 pairs, oblanceolate to linear, acute. Peduncles few-flowered ; 

 corolla pink, .01 long ; pod twice as long as calyx, appressed-hirsute 

 or glabrescent, flattened, semi-orbicular, unarmed and somewhat un- 

 equally pitted at disk, crest entire, much narrower than disk — Summer 

 — Alpine and subalpine Lebanon and Antilebanon ; Akherdagh. 



1 1 Standard pubescent or silky. Petals long persistent. 



X Pod circinnate. Pits of narrow crest quadrate or pentagonal. 



10. O. Olivieri, Boiss. If .3 to .5, woolly-canescent to puber- 

 ulent-villous ; stems branching from neck, procumbent, flexuous. Leaf- 

 lets 2-4 pairs, remote, round to ovate and ovate-oblong, appressed-pu- 

 terulent on both sides, mucronate, the lowest leaves sometimes simple. 

 Racemes loose, much longer than leaves; corolla whitish-yellow, stri- 

 ate, .02 long ; wings as long as calyx, oblong-triangular, somewhat 

 curved upward, obtuse, with deflexed auricle; pods obovate, .01 long, 

 fleecy, pitted and slightly prickly — April — Fields about Palmyra, 

 and eastward. 



11. O. Ptotemaica, Del. '^. Khansar-eVArus. .1 to .25, 

 villous ; stems ascending from neck. Leaflets 4-8 pairs, oblong to 

 elliptical, glabrous at upper, loosely hirsute at lower surface. Racemes 

 long, many flowered ; corolla yellow, .015 long, rusty-lined ; wing not 

 longer than calyx-tube, horse-shoe-shaped ; pod .01 long, .007 

 broad, densely woolly, pitted and short-prickly at disk and margin — 

 April and May — Gaza and south end of Dead Sea to Sinai and 

 Egypt. 



12. O. Oaillardoti, Boiss. 11 .1 to. 25, loosely villous; stems 

 thick, erect. Leaflets 5-6 pairs, ovate, obtuse, glabrous on upper, 

 appressed-hirsute on lower surface. Peduncles tfick ; racemes very 

 long ; corolla yellow, purple-lined ; pod densely white-woolly, sparing- 

 ly short-prickly at disk ; crest narrow, very short-denticulate — May — 

 Waste fields ; Hamath to Palmyra ; Damascus. 



X X Pod circinnate. AreoliB of broad crest linear-rectangular. 



13. O. aurantiaca, Boiss. 2^.3 to .6 ; stems thick, ascending, 

 Mrsute with spreading or deflexed hairs. Leaflets 4-5 paii's, oDate to 



