512 PLTJMBAGINE^ (LEADWORT FAMILY.) 



2. CJOMIOL-IMON, Boiss. Goniolimon. 



Calyx funnel-shaped, with scarious, o-nerved, 5-lobed limb. Petals 

 5, connate at base, but the margins of the claws touching each other, 

 and forming a tube. Filaments somewhat connected by their glan- 

 dular bases. Styles 5, free, papillose. Stigmas capitate. Utricle 

 membranous, opening by a lid — Herbs with angled or winged scapes 

 and branches. 



Cr. colllnimi, Griseb. If 2.5 to .3, glaucescent. Leaves oblong 

 to lanceolate, aristate-mucronate, long-petioled. Scape branching from 

 near base, paniculate-corymbose, branches spreadiug-reciirved ; spikelets 

 1-flowered, clustered in short, imbricated spikes ; bracts green, leathery, 

 keeled, somewhat recurved, the outer membranous-margined, 3-tooth- 

 ed, the middle tooth longer; calyx-tube glabrous, longer than limb 



— Spring — Between Tripoli and Hamah. 



3. STATICE, L. Sea-Lavendek. 



Caljix obconical-tubular or funnel shaped, with scarious, 5-nerved, 

 5-10-lobed limb, or 5 sepals. Corolla polypetalous, or united at base, 

 or as far as limb. Stamens adnate at base or as far as middle of petals. 

 Styles glabrous, free or short-connate at base. Stigmas filiform-cylin- 

 drical, glandular over whole surface. Utricle indurated above, mem- 

 branous below, opening by a lid, or rupturing irregularly near base 



— Perennial or annual herbs or shrubs, with flowers arranged in 3- 

 bracted spikelets. 



* Petals free or only connate at tase. 



t Floral h'anches 2-Z-auricled, ohpyramidal. Calyx-insertion erect, 

 lintb l/road, plaited. Leaves siiiuate to pinnatijid, rosetted. Annuals or 



perennials. 



1. S. sinuata, L. 11 .2 to .5, Mspid-scahrous. Scapes crisply 

 3-5-winged, the wings ending at nodes in ternate-whorled, linear, taper- 

 ing, leaf -liie apjyendages; viings of ^oral hrsinch.es ,001 to .002 broad; 

 lower aspect of axis covered with linear, ciliate-pectinate scales; calyx- 

 limb blue, truncate, crenulate; corolla cream-colored — March to June — 

 Along the coast; east of Jordan (Tristram). 



2. S. Tliouini, Viv. © .2 to .4, glairotis. 

 Scapes more or less 3-winged, one of the wings 

 eliding at the nodes in a short. Hunt, oVong ap- 

 pendage; wings of floral branches .002 to .004 

 broad, reticulate; axis nearly naked; calyx-limb 

 white, cleft to middle into 5, triangular lobes, with 

 bristle in sinus; corolla yellow — Spring — Jor- 

 dan Valley and its flanks to the Mediterranean 

 sea-level ; south of Gaza ; Arabia Petraea. 



t t Branches terete or angled. Oalyx-insei'tion 

 oblique. Perennial herbs. 



' 3. S. Limonium, L. If .3 to .8, gla- 

 brous-glaucescent. Leaves oblong to oblong- 

 lanceolate, tapering to a petiole, .Oo to .2 long. 

 Spikes one-sided, dense or lax, often scorpioid ; 

 spikelets 2-3-flowered ; bracts herbaceous, 



Fig. 241. 



Cyme of S. Thouini. 



