RUBIACEiE. (MADDER FAMILY.) 381 



2. PUTORIA, Pers. Pdtoria. 



Flowers perfect. Calyx-tube oblong, limb with 4, short teeth. 

 Corolla hypocrateriform, with long, slender tube dilated above, limb 4- 

 parted. Stamens 4, inserted near apex of corolla tube, filaments ex- 

 serted. Style long, somewhat exserted ; stigma scarcely distinct from 

 style, with 2, short lamellae. Fruit an oblong berry, not splitting into 

 two parts — Low shrubs, with opposite, petioled leaves, and pink 

 flowers, and dark crimson berries. 



P. Calabrica, L. 5 -^ ^^ -^^ trailing or pendulous, drying 

 black ; branches papillose-puberulent. Leaves oblong or oblong-lan- 

 ceolate, obtuse, short-petioled, revolute-margined ; stipules connate, 

 triangular. Flowers few, sessile, terminal, corymbose-capitate — May 

 to August — Rocks ; Jerusalem to Lebanon, Aintab, Marash and 

 northward. Very fcetid wlien young. 



3. RUB I A, L. Madder. Fuwwah. 



Flowers perfect, cymose, rarely solitary. Limb of calyx obsolete. 

 Corolla rotate, 5-parted. Mericarps hemispherical, berry-like. Ovules 

 solitary implanted on septum — Perennial herbs or shrubs, with whorled 

 leaves, scabrous-aculeolate along margin, and generally along nerves. 



* Stems &)^ect or asceriding, not climbing. 



1. R. Auclieri, Boiss. 21 1.5 to. 5, glabrous. Leases in fours, 

 rhoniboid-ellijMcal, mucronate, 1 -nerved. Cymes few-flowered, tricho- 

 tomous, from the upper and terminal axils ; anthers nearly globular — 

 April to June — Woods ; Sjaian coast ; lower and middle zone of 

 Lebanon, Cassius, and Amanus. 



* * Stems clwibing or trailing. 



2. R. tiiictoruiii, L. 1i Madder. Fuiowah. Stems long, dimm- 

 ing, Tierhaceous, scabrous. Leaves 4-6 in a whorl, oblong or lanceolate, 

 often .06 long, feather-veined below. Cymes leafy, much longer than ax- 

 illary leaves. Anthers linear-oblong — Spring and Summer — Hedges 

 and thickets ; Moab and Gilead to Lebanon, Antilebanon, Damascus, 

 Hems, and northward. Boots red, {furnishing the well hioion dye). 



3. R. peregrina, L. 2i! Stems clinibing, herbaceous, scabrous. 

 Leaves 4-6 in a whorl, oblong or lanceolate, coriaceous, glossy, 1-nerv- 

 ed, prickly denticulate at nerve and margins. Cymes axillary and 

 ttYmm'diX, longer than learns; cor oll'd \ohes long -arist ate ; anthers ovate 

 — Spring — Upper Jordan Valley (Tristram). 



4. R. Olivicri, A. Rich. 5 Sterns iia.ked,traili7ig, decumbent; 

 branches flexuous, minutely puberulent when young. Leaves in sixes, 

 lenticular-oblong, to obovate, leathery, glossy, 1 -nerved, scabrous at 

 margin. Cymes axiWary, scarcely lo?igertha7i leaves. Anthers ovate — 

 Spring — Rocks and walls ; coast and lower mountain zone. 



Var. clliptica, Boiss. Leaves elliptical or lenticular. 



Var. §tcnopliylla, Boiss. Leaves oblong-linear. 



4. CAL.L-IPEL.TIS, Stev. Callipeltis. 



Flowers perfect. Limb of calyx obsolete. Corolla 4-o-parted ; 

 tube 0. Stamens 4, very short, ^tyle bifid ; stigmas globular. Ovary 



