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* * Annuals, 



t Corolla-tube straight. 



\ Nutlets horizontal, wrinTcled, short-heaTced. . Corolla-tube straight. 



8. A. ag'^reg^ata, Lehm. Temaliq. QirH. .3 to .5, densely 

 strigose, dichotonioiisly branched from base and above. Leaves oblong- 

 spatliulate to linear-oblong and linear, repand, the lower loug-petiol- 

 ed, the upper sessile. Racemes terminal, very dense, corymbose-caintate; 

 flowers nearly sessile; calyx-lobes at length triangular-lanceolate ; corol- 

 la blue, .002 broad, tube exscrted; scales exserted, oblong, penicillate; 

 nutlets transversely .005, vertically .003, with inflated ring at base 

 — Spring — Sands of coast and lower coast ranges, and southward 

 to Sinai and Egypt; El-Ghor. 



O. A. liispida, Forsk. Rough with unequal bristles arising 

 from a tubercle ; stems numerous from neck, prostrate, simple or fork- 

 ed-branched. Leaves remotely repand-denticulate, more or less wavy- 

 margined, lanceolate, obtuse, the lower long-petioled. Flowers sol- 

 itary in axils, minute, pedicels short, at length nodding; calyx-lobes 

 lanceolate, at length spreading; corolla tubular, violet, not longer than 

 calyx, limb minute, scales papillose, obtuse; nutlets transversely ovate, 

 nearly horizontal, with an acute-angled beak, areolate, minutely tu- 

 bercled — Spring — Sinai, 



10. A. Auclieri, Alph. DC. .08. to .15, green, strigose, 

 branching from base, diffuse. Leaves oblong to linear-oblong, some- 

 what repand, tapering at base, the lower petioled, the floral elliptical, 

 longer than flowers. Flowers axillary, forming short, dense, leafy 

 racemes ; .pedicels shorter than calyx, at length nodding ; calyx-lobes 

 lanceolate; covoWsi jyinMsh-blue, scarcely longer than calyx, .005 long, 

 .002 broad; scales oblong, exserted, velvety; nutlets transversely .004, 

 vertically .002, areolae minutely tubercled — Spring — Hermon to 

 Cassius, Amanus, and northward. 



X X Nutlets oblique, icrinJcled-netted, acute. Corolla-tube straight. 



11. A. iEgyptiaca, L. Shubeit. Dabbun. .3 to .6, pale 



green, icarty, strigose, diffuse, prostrate or ascending, dichotomous. 

 Leaves repand-deutate, oblong to oblong-lanceolate, tapering at both 

 ends. Racemes very loose, leafy ; pedicels extra axillary, as long as or 

 longer than calyx, usually recurved in fruit; calyx-lobes lanceolate, 

 twice as long as nutlets ; corolla yellow, tube shorter than calyx, limb 

 .002 broad, scales exserted, velvety; nutlets .005 long, .003 broad — 

 Spring — Walls and w^aste places ; common. 



12. A. Milleri, Willd. Kahald. Turr. .3 to .5, loose-hispid, 

 not warty, diffuse or erect, branching from base. Leaves repand, ob- 

 long, tapering at both ends, the lower petioled. Flowers at or above 

 axils, forming loose, leafy racemes ; pedicels as long as or longer than 

 calyx, straight; calyx-lobes linear, twice as long as nutlets ; corolla 

 pinhish-iohite, tube about ticice as long as cal3'x, limb .002 broad, scales 

 exserted, glabrous at tip; nutlets .003 long, .0015 broad— Spring — 

 Borders of et-Tih ; el-Ghor ; Gilead ; Palmyrene desert. 



