592 SCROPHULABIACEiEJ. (FIGWORT FAMILY.)'' 



.03 long, pectinate-toothed, the others .03 to .04 long, oblon, pin- 

 natisect into linear lobes, entire, or 1-2-acute-toothed. Cymes peduncled, 

 bifid, 3-9-flowered ; bracts and bracteoles setaceous ; flowers .008 long; 

 pedicels as long as calyx ; calyx-lobes orbicular, white-margined ; 

 corolla brownish-purple, urn-sTiaped, d-4:-times as long as calyx, the up- 

 per loles injlexecl ; anthers included ; scale ovate, 1-3-dentate ; capsule 

 * *— May — Thickets ; Suf to 'Ajltn (Gilead). 



17. S. Peyroni, Post. (Plant. Postian. Fasc. V. p. 14). 2( 1, 

 glabrous, stems numerous, rigid, branching almost from base into 

 intricate, spreading panicles. Leaves 1-3-pinnatipartite into linear 

 lobes .004 to .009 long. Cymes short-peduncled, bifid ; flowering 

 racemes elongated, rigid, loosely 10-20-Jfowered ; bracts and bracteoles 

 linear, the latter a little longer than short pedicels ; flowers scarce- 

 ly .004 long ; calyx minute, lobes round, scarious-margined ; corol- 

 la thrice as long as calyx, upper-lobes medium-sized, narrowed at base, 

 rounded ; stamens scarcely exserted ; appendix small, ovate-oUong, 

 pale-yellow, with entire margin ; capsule small, mucronulate, twice as 

 long as calyx — jMay to July — Fissures of rocks ; Beirut ; Antile- 

 banon. 



1§. S. variegata, M.B. If ''Inaleh. .3 to .5, pruinose-punctate, 

 or pubescent, rarely glabrescent ; stems reddish, simple or sparingly 

 branched, ending in a loose, leafless thyrsus. Leaves oblong-ovate, 

 deeply pinnatifid or parted into lanceolate to linear, incised-dentate 

 lobes. Bracts and bracteoles elliptieo-linear, the latter minute ; cymes 

 short-peduncled, the latter 5-1 -flowered ; flowers .005 long ; calyx- 

 lobes orbicular, white-margined ; corolla variegated, urn-shaped ; scale 

 ovate- spathulate to oUong ; capsule .003 to .004 long, oUate-spheroidal, 

 apiculate, thrice as long as calyx — June to September — Hermon ; 

 mountains south of Qaryetein ; Marash, and northward. 



Var. Libaiiotica, Boiss. Glabrous except sparingly glandular 

 thyrsus. Leaves dentate, petioled or nearly sessile, rarely incised — 

 Sinai ; subalpine and alpine Lebanon and Antilebanon to Cassius, 

 Amanus, Kurd Dagh, and northward. 



Var. crenata, Post. Leaves repand-crenate to crenate -^ Roots 

 of Mt. Cassius. 



1 1 Leaves small, scattered, scale-liJce, oblong, entire or dentate. 



19. S. Syriaca, Benth. % .3, glabrous, shrubby at base, many 

 stemmed, almost Zea^ess, dichotomously branched, ending in depauperat- 

 ed thyrsi. Leaves .01 long, entire. Cymes short-peduncled, bifid, 3- 

 5-flowered ; bracts and bracteoles minute, triangular ; flowers sessile, 

 small ; calyx-lobes orbicular, white-margined, stamens included ; scale 

 small ; capsule * * — Spring — Nazareth. 



7. LiIXDEJ^BEBGIAj Lehm. Lindenbergia. 



Calyx tubular or campanulate, somewhat unequally 5-toothed. 

 Corolla elongated, the upper lip concave, erect, retuse ; the lower 

 larger, 3-lobed, with a 3-plaited projection at throat. Fertile stamens 

 4, the cells of the anthers stipitate. Style truncate-capitate at apex. 

 Capsule oblong or ovoid, S-grooved, loculicidal, the 3 valves entire, 

 with median septa ; the placenta central, at length free, separable into- 

 4; seeds numerous, '^minute — Nearly leafless, shrubby, desert herbs. 



