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* * * Shrubs. Mitlets ovate-triquetrous, nearly smooth. Corolla naked 



within. 



7. It, callo§ui]i, Vahl. 5 Jureibi. Halameh. .\b to .%^ very 

 strigose with appressed, imequal prickles, canesceut. Leaves .01 to .02 

 long, suhsessile at base, with callous margins. Racemes shoi t, spike-like, 

 loose in fruit; corolla-tube twice and a ha^f to thrice as long as very 

 strigose calyx; throat hirtulous; nutlets .001 long, ovate-triangular, 

 brownish, glossy, tubercles 1-3 or — Spring — Gaza to borders of 

 Et-Tih, and southward. 



8. Li, liispidulum, S. et S. 5 -^ ^" -^^ appressed-hairy, in- 

 tricately branched, branches dry, rather persistent. Leaves olive-green, 

 oblong, .01 to .03 long, tapering at base, short- petioled. Flowers 1 to 4, 

 croioded among upper leaves, sessile; corolla hardly twice as long ^?, 2i^- 

 pressed-hairy calyx, throat glabrous ; nutlets .001 long, ovate-triquet- 

 rous, Avhite, glossy, minutely tubercled — Spring — Lower spurs of 

 Cassius, Amanus, and northward. 



21. MOLTKIA, Lehm. Moltkia. 



Calyx 5-parted. Corolla cylindrical below, iniiated-funnel-shaped 

 above, with straight lobes and naked throat. Filaments long-exserted ; 

 anthers oblong, curved, inserted near their base on the filament. Style 

 filiform, acute. Nutlets straight or somewhat incurved, ovate-trian- 

 gular or angled, areola basilar, fiat — Shrubs, with showy corymbs of 

 blue flowers. 



IWI. ccErulea, WiUd. 5 -15 to .35, many-stemmed, canesceut, 

 scabrous with appressed, tubercled hairs ; stems erect, stiff, densely 

 leafy below, corymbose above. Root-leaves oblong-spathulate, obtuse, 

 tapering at base; stem-leaves sessile, stiff, linear-lanceolate, acute, .015 

 to .035 long, .003 to .004 broad. Racemes 3-5, at first scorpioid, then 

 straight, stiff ; corolla blue, sparingly setulose, four times as long as 

 calyx, .015 long, tube slender, limb abruptly bottle-shaped; nutlets 

 white, obsoletely wrinkled, minutely depressed-punctate, incurved, 

 with a short, horizontal beak — April — Hillsides and waste places; 

 Antioch to Palmyra, Aintab, and northward and eastward. 



Var. subcristata, Boiss. Nutlets coarse-tubercled, wrinkled, 

 somewhat crested — Same range as type. 



22. ARXEBIA, Forsk. Arnebia, Shajaret-el-Arnab. 



Calyx 5-parted. Corolla funnel-shaped, with elongated tube, a 

 nectar-like ring at its base, and a naked throat, and spreading limb. 

 Anthers inserted on tube, included. Style bifid, branches often bi- 

 lobed. Nutlets triangular, acute, tubercled or scrobiculate-wriukled, 

 rarely smooth — Annual, desert herbs, with yellow or pale violet flowers. 



* Fruiting calyx scarcely groicing, .005 long. Corolla yellow. 



1. A. lii§piclis§inia, Spreng. Attalm. .2 to .3, strigose 

 with tubercled hairs, branching from base. Leaves lanceolate to linear. 

 Racemes one-sided, dense; calyx-lobes narrowly lanceolate ; corolla- 

 tube .013 long, twice as long as calyx ; stigmas flattened; nutlets tu- 

 bercled, minute —Spring — Et-Tih, and southward. 



