RUBIACEJE. (madder FAMILY.) 



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icels twice or thrice as long as flower and .001 long, uncinate, hispid 

 fruit — Spring — Rocky places ; southern Palestine to Lebanon. 



Var. glabrescciis, Post. Except infloresceace, very sparingly 

 hispid or glabrous — Sarada ; Deir-el-Qal'ah. 



29. €m. Cassiiiiii, Boiss. © .2 to .3, glabrous, branching almost 

 from base ; stems filiform, dijfusely forked, corymbose. Leaves in sixes 

 to eights, the lowest elliptico-linear, the others narrowly linear, the floral 

 nearly solitary, usually shorter than pedunculated, umbel-lilce cymes. 

 Pedicels scarcely longer than jioioer and fruit ; fruit appressed-strigulose 

 or uncinate, hispid — Spring — Coast and lower hill country of north- 



ern Palestine, Lebanon, Cassius, 



and northward. 

 .1 to .2, 



Leaves and fruits of G. seta, 

 ceum, var. lasiocarpum. 



30. O. §etaceuiii, Lam. 

 glabrous, branching from base ; stems erect, 

 filiform, paniculate. Leaves in sixes to eights, 

 lowest oblong, upper aiol-shaped ; floral capil- 

 lary, overtopping flowers. Cymes axillary and 

 terminal, 3-7-flowered, pedunculated ; pedicels 

 capillary, about twice as long as flower and fruit ; 

 fruit .0005 long, glabrous or uncinate-hispid — 

 Spring — Dry hills and rocks ; lower mountains, 

 and plains. 



Var. lasiocarpum, Boiss. Fruits hispid. 



Var. leiocarpum, Boiss. Fruits glabrous 

 or slightly scabrous. 



Var. long-ipedicellatum, Post. Pedicels 2-6 times as long 

 as glabrous or glabrescent fruit — Ascent from Shittim Plain to Nebo. 



31. O. ]>ecai§nei, Boiss. .1 to .4, gla- Fig. 218. 

 brous or puberulent below ; stems slender fragile, 

 2-3-chotomously branched. henYesusually in sixes, 

 linear, acute, uppermost awl-shaped, solitary, 

 somewhat longer than cymes. Cymes axillary 

 and terminal, few-flowered, peduncled ; pedicels 

 flexuous, ma7iy times longer than flowers and 

 .0005 long, glabrous fruit — May and June — 

 Rocks and shady places ; Damascus to Palmyra, 

 Mt. Cassius, Aintab, and northward, and east- 

 ward ; Mt. Sinai. Leaves and fruits of G. 



Decaisnei. 



32. O. luurale, L. .1 to .25, glabrous or 

 hispidulous ; stems tufted, flaccid, filiform. Leaves 

 .003 to .005 long, the lowest in fours, the upper in 

 pairs, obovate to oblong, tapering at base. Pedun- 

 cles out of axils, 1-3-flowered, recurved in fruit ; 

 fruit cylindrical, hirsute especially at apex — Spring 

 — Walls and rocks ; coast and hill country from 

 Judaea and Gilead, and northward. 



33. O. verticillatum, .1 to .15, glabrous 

 or slightly scabrous ; stems erect, filiform, rather 

 stiff. Leaves in fours and sixes, linear-oblong, at 

 length reflexed. Peduncles axillary, 2-5, one-flowered, 

 verticillate, erect in fruit ; fruit ovate, short-hispidu- 



FiG. 219. 



Leaves and fruits of 

 G. murale. magni- 

 fied 3 diameters . 



