893 RUBIACB^. (MADDER FAMILY.) 



Var. rig^ida, Post. Stems rigid. Leaves oblong -lenticular^ 

 obtuse or acutish. Inflorescence more compact than in type — Moun- 

 tains near Aintab. 



8. A, Obanotica, Boiss. 2|! .5 to 1, glabrous ; stems slender, 

 scabrous, jiaccid, ascending. Leaves in fours, ovate-oblong to lentic- 

 ular, somewhat 3-nerved, acutish. Flowers capitate, loosely corymbose ; 

 bracts elliptical-lanceolate, unequal, shorter than flowers ; corolla- 

 tube gradually expanding into the limb, lobes ovate, acutish ; anthers 

 black, nearly included ; style bipartite, exserted ; mericarps hemispher- 

 ical, papillose — May and June — Moist places ; middle to subalpine 

 Lebanon, Antilebanon, Cassius, and Amanus. 



1 1 t Co^'olla campanulate, white. Leaves obovate to elliptical-lanceolate. 



9. A. odorata, L, 2^ .3 to .4, glabrous, often drying black ; 

 root-stock creeping ; stems erect, simple. Leaves 1 -nerved, the lower 

 m sixes, obovate, the others in eights, oblong-elliptical. Corymbs 

 small, few flowered, peduncled ; mericarps globular, .003 in diameter, 

 hispid with hooked haks — Spring — Middle zone of Amanus, above 

 Hassan Beyley. 



10. A. Apariiie, M.B. 11 Glabrous, scabrous, dryi^ng green; 

 stems flaccid, someichat climbing. Leaves in sixes and eights, retrorsely 

 aculeolate, oblong-lanceolate to elliptical. Cymes terminal and axillary, 

 divaricately branched. Mericarps globular, glah^ous, somewhat granular 

 — Summer — Ditches and hedges ; Beirut, to subalpine Lebanon, 

 Shetoora, Damascus, Marash, and northward. 



1 1 1 1 Corolla campanulate, cream-colored or yellow. Leaves 

 linear or oblong. 



11. A. Iiumifuia, M, B. -l^ Glabrescent or papillose-puberulent, 

 drying blacJc ; stems long, prostrate, ending in long, narrow panicles. 

 Leaves in sixes, oblong -linear, mucronate, scabridulous at margin, the 

 lower reflexed. Cymes contracted, dense; mericarps minute, hemi- 

 spherical, glabrous — May and June — Waysides and moist places ; 

 Damascus to Amanus, Aintab, Marash, and northward. 



Var. pycnaiitha, Boiss. Branches shorter, cymes denser. 

 Fruit sometimes hirsute — Damascus to Lattakia, Aleppo and Aintab. 



12. A. toreviflora, Boiss. 2f .5 to .7, pale-green, shrubby" 

 below, many-stemmed, rigid, erect, dichotomously branched, Leaves in 

 sixes, linear, revolute-margined, scabridulous, acute. Fascicles 3-7- 

 flowered, axillary and terminal, short-peduncled, forming a narrow 

 panicle ; mericarps globular, .001 in diameter, smooth, glabrescent — 

 Summer — Middle and subalpine region, Lebanon and Antilebanon. 



13. A. di§sitiflora. Post. If .4, minutely scabridulous, drying 

 black ; root-stock woody ; stems tortuous, procumbent. Leaves in sixes, 

 oblong-elliptical, obtuse or mucronate. Flowers solitary, or rarely 2-4 

 m a cymule from the upper axils ; peduncles and pedicels slender, 

 shorter than leaves ; corolla drying whitish-green, tube a little shorter 

 than ovate-oblong lobes ; anthers oblong, exserted ; fruit minute, 

 globular, truncate. Summer — Woods of middle region of Amanus. 

 Distinguished from most of the Asperulce by its flaccid^ Galioid stems and 

 leaves, and scattered^ minute Jlowers. 



