UMBELLIFER^. (pARSLEY FAMILY.) 337 



2. M. nodiflorum, L. Ohassul. Procumbent or ascending, 



papillose. Leaves opposite and alternate, linear, semi-terete, obtuse, 

 ciliate at base. Flowers nearly sessile ; calyx-lobes linear, unequal ; 

 petals shorter than calyx — Spring — Sandy places, and hot, stony fields 

 near coast, at Palmyra, about the Dead Sea, Mount Carmel, and south- 

 ward, 



3. HI. For§kalilei, Hochst. 8eme?i. Sarah. Papillose ; branches 

 short, very jieshy. Leaves opposite, sJwrt, fleshy, terete-conical, the 

 upper decurrent. Flowers peduncled ; calyx-lobes conical, unequal ; 

 petals longer than calyx — Spring — Sandy places ; south of Dead 

 Sea. 



* * Calyx-tiibe not adherent to ovary. Petals 0. 

 2. AIZOON, L. AizooN. Ghassul. 



Calyx-tube turbinate or hemispherical. Stamens in clusters, alter- 

 nate with the calyx-lobes. Capsules surrounded by the persistent 

 calyx, 5-celled, opening loculicidally by a star-shaped, 5-limbed fissure 

 at apex — Monocarpic or perennial herbs. 



1. A. Hispanicum, L. Ghassul. Yashenid. Erect or as- 

 cending, succulent, papillose, dichotomously branched. Leaves 02:)posite, 

 oMong -lanceolate, sessile, obtuse. Flowers somewhat pedicelled, solitary 

 in the forks ; calyx-tube top-shaped, with elongated, lanceolate lobes, 

 .015 long, white within — Early Spring — Sinai, Dead Sea, Palmyra, 

 Aleppo, and northward and eastward. 



2, A. Caiiarien§e, L. © 2^ Kushdt-el-Beldd. Hadaq. Papil- 

 lose-villous ; stems procunibent, rather looody, zigzag, alternately branch- 

 ed. Leaves alternate, ohovate-spathulate, cuneate at lase, tapering ijito a 

 petiole. Flowers .003 broad, sessile in axils and along the branches; 

 calyx-tube hemispherical, lobes broad, short triangular-ovate, .001 long, 

 pale within — Spring — Wadis around the Dead Sea, and southward. 



3. TMIABfTHEMA, L. Trianthema. 



Calyx-tube campanulate. Stamens 5-10 or oo , solitary or clustered, 

 inserted between the calyx-lobes. Ovary 1-2-celled ; styles 1-3. The 

 U23per part of the capsule coriaceous, separating as a lid from the lower, 

 membranous portion — Prostrate, fleshy herbs, with opjDOsite, petioled, 

 somewhat unequal leaves. 



T. pentandrum, L. 21 Pustular ; stems prostrate, more or less 

 zigzag. Leaves obovate, petiole membranous-winged on both sides at 

 base. Flowers minute, subsessile, clustered at axils ; bracteoles 3, scarious; 

 calyx-lobes ovate with membranous margins, and hooded apex ; sta- 

 mens 5 ; styles 3 ; capsules 3-celled — Spring — Ghor-es-Safieh. 



Order XLIX. U]IIBE:L.L.IF£RJB:, Juss. (Parsley Family.) 



Herhs with jiowers in umhels, the calyx entirely adher- 

 ent to the ovary ^ the 5 ;petals and 5 stamens inserted alter- 

 nately on the dish that crowns the ovary^ and surrounds the 

 hase of the 2 styles. Fruit (except in Lagoecia) comjposed of 

 'I ^seed-like, dry, 1-seeded mericarps ; seed anatvojjous, with a 

 mimcte emhryo in horny albii^men — Flowers liermaplirodite, 



