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3-grooved, fertile cell gibbous ; calyx-limb unequally 3-toothed, the 

 posterior and one lateral tooth very small, almost obsolete, the other 

 thick at base, subulate, incurved ; one of the sterile otW^^o^tkiYiov, about 

 as large as the fertile, the other twice asbroad — Spring — Mountains of 

 Moab. 



7. V. Oricntalis, Schlecht. © .1 to .3, glabrous. Fig. 224. 

 Lower leaves oblong-spathuhite, entire, upper sessile, 

 dentate or incised. Fruits fungous, at length separating 

 from cyme, ovate, many-grooved behind, deeply cleft 

 in front, crowned with 8, short, conical, erect, nearly 

 equal teeth, the posterior a little smaller ; loth the lateral 

 sterile cells injront, much broader than the small, pos- 

 terior , fertile cell — Spring — Fields ; Gilead to Ccele- 

 syria, Nusairy Mountains, Aleppo, Aintab, and north- Fruit otv.orien- 



ward. talis, magnified 



8 diameters. 



* * * Fruits of one Tcind, small, ovate, the sterile cells filiform^ converging 



at base. Calyx-tube tubular, obliquely truncate, auricled, entire or 

 denticulate. 



8. V. Morisoiii, Spreng. Tall, scabrous at margins of leaves 

 and angles of stems. Lower leaves oblong, entire, upper dentate at 

 base. Fruiting branches scarcely thickened ; fruit glabrous ; calyx- 

 limb not reticulate, denticulate, narrower than fruit, and half as long — 

 Spring — Tops of mountains in Gilead (Tristram). 



9. V. truncata, Rchb. .1 to .3, scabrous'at nerves of leaves 

 and angles of stems. Lower leaves oblong, upper linear, 1-2-dentate 

 at base. Fruiting branches at length thickened ; fruit hirtulous or 

 glabrous ; calyx-limb reticulate-veined, nearly entire, about as broad and 

 long as- fruit — Spring — Fields ; Gilead to Aleppo ; Syrian coast, 

 Lebanon, and northward. 



Var. muricata, Boiss. Calyx-limb more acute and oblique, 

 usually with a small tooth on each side in front — Jerusalem. 



* * * * Fruits of one h'nd, small, globular or ovate-oblong, the sterile cells 

 narrower or broader than the fertile. Fruiting branches not thickened, 



t Calyx-limb reduced to a small tooth arising from the posterior cell. 



10. V. cariiiata, Loisel. .15 to .4, scabrous at angles. 

 Leaves jfinely ciliate, the lower spathulate, obtuse, the upper sometimes 

 denticulate. Cjmas capitate ; fruits glabrous, or puberulent, ovate- 

 oblong somew^hat incurved, convex behind, deeply grooved in front, 

 grooved and Iceeled at each side ; the anterior sterile cells nearl'y as broad 

 as the posterior fertile cell — Spring — Lebanon and Nusairy Mountains 

 to Aleppo, Aintab, and northward, and eastward. 



1 1 Calyx-limb with 3, oblique, lyroad, short lobes, the lateral sometimes 0. 



11. V. trideiitata, Stev. .1 to .4, somewhat scabrous. Lower 

 leaves linear-spathulate, entire, intermediate linear, often dentate or 

 incised at base. Cymes fiat, loose ; fruits minute, soon deciduous, 

 glabrous, rarely hirsute, nearly globular, convex behind, ^ai //^y^wi^, 

 with an umbilical depression in the centre ; the anterior sterile cells diver- 

 gent, ribbed or Iceeled, broader than the posterim^, narroio, fertile cell — 



