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RUBIACEiK. (madder FAMILY.) 



setaceous, once to twice as long as exceedingly minute, finely granulated, 

 glabrous, rarely hirtulose, fruit — Spring - Dry places; Lebanon; 

 Beirut. 



24. Cr. teiiui§8imuiii, M.B. © .3, glabrous ; stem slender, 

 zigzag, diffusely paniculate from base. Leaves in sixes, linear-lanceo- 

 late, long-mucronate, scabrous. Cymes 5-7-flowered, very divaricate ; 

 pedicels setaceous, much longer than minute, glabrous, rarely hirsute 

 fruit — Spring — Rocky places; Syrian coast and lower ranges of 

 Lebanon, Antilebanon, Cassius, and northward. 



25. O. iiigriean§, Boiss. © .lto.15, erect, scabrous, drying 

 black, divaricately branched, corymbose. Leaves in sixes to eights, linear, 

 with revolute margins, mucronate, more or less retrorsely scabrous. 

 Pedicels filiform, hirsute or glabrous, 2-3-chotomous in fruit, twice as 

 long as glabrous or somewhat hirsute, .001 long fruit — Spring — Vine- 

 yards and fields ; Antilebanon to Hauran, Aleppo, and northward, and 

 eastward. 



Var. bracliycliaetuiu, Boiss. Bristle much shorter than lobe 

 of corolla — Rasheiyah ; Palmyra. 



26. Cr. Syriacum, Boiss, © .06 to .1, glabrous, drying black; 

 stem thickish, divaricately h^anchedfrom base, corymbose. Leaves in 

 eights, short oblong -spathulate, .003 to .005 long, mucronate, with re- 

 trorsely scabrous margins, the upper in pairs, narrower. Peduncles 

 trichotomous ; pedicels thickish, scarcely twice as long as flower and 

 glabrous fruit — Spring — Aintab. 



27. O. Hierosolyiiiitanum, L. 



.3 to .5, glabrous or sparingly hirsute, 

 drying more or less black ; stem rigid, 

 more or less paniculately Irranched. Leaves 

 in sixes to eights, lowermost often obovate, 

 others lenticular to lineor-lanceolate, with 

 more or less revolute, retrorsely scabrous 

 margins. Peduncles capillary, trichoto- 

 mous ; cymes dense ; floral leaves remote 

 from flowers ; pedicels capillary, hirsute, 

 or glabrous, a little longer than hirsute 

 or glabrous flowers ; fruit glabrous or 

 hispid, .0005 long — Spring — Shady 

 places ; common among rocks through- 

 out, along coast and lower mountain re- 

 gions, and tablelands. 



Fig. 215. 



Leaves and flowers of G, Hieroso- 

 lymitanum, L. var. hispidum. 



Post. Inflorescence and 



Var. hispidum, 

 fructification hispid. 



Var. glabrum, Post. Inflorescence and 

 fructification glabrous. Rarer than last. 



2§. O. Judaicum, IJoiss. © .1 to .25, 

 branching from base, hispid; stems thickish. 

 Leaves in fours and fives, obovate-spathulate to 

 elliptical and linear, with scarcely revolute ma7'gins, 

 without mucro. Cymes axillary and terminal, 

 sessile or on short, often deflexed peduncles ; ped- 



FiG. 216. 



Leaves and fruit of G.Ju 

 daicuin , var. glabrescens. 



