600 SCROPHULAKIACE^. (FIGWORT FAMILY.) 



plaited. Stamens didynamous, inserted under upper lip, anthers mu- 

 cronate or muticous. Capsule oblong, flattened. Seeds many, pendu- 

 lous, longitudinally grooved — Annual or shrubby-perennial herbs, 

 with linear, or linear-lanceolate, opposite leaves, .01 to to .03 long. 



* Antliers glabrous. 



.1. O. Auclieri, Boiss. .1 to .15, appressed scabrous-canes- 

 cent and tubercled, more or less viscid with sessile glands ; stems 

 slender, sparingly branched. Leaves narrowly linear^ convolute. Calyx- 

 teeth lanceolate^ as long as tube ; cotoWq. red; anthers included, muti- 

 cous, capsule retuse, apiculate — Summer — Alpine and sub alpine Leba- 

 non, Antilebanon, Amanus, and northward. 



2. O. lutea, L. © .3 to .5, crisp-puberulent ; stems stiff, 

 much- and long-branched. Leaves lanceolate-linear to linear, entire or 

 sparingly dentate, often deflexed, Jlat. Calyx-teeth triangular, half as 

 long as tube ; corolla yellow ; anthers exserted, mucronate ; capsule ob- 

 tuse — July to September — Dry hills ; foot of Amanus, to Akher- 

 dagh, and northward. 



Var. Eii§piclu9a, Boiss. Bracts and calyx long-hispid — Leba- 

 non. 



* * Antliers bearded or wc 



3. O. glntlnosa, M.B. .1, minutely glutinous-pubescent : 

 stem stiff, simple, or with few branches shorter than terminal spike. 

 Leaves linear, convolute. Calyx-teeth somewhat longer than tube ; co- 

 rolla yelloio, with long, exserted tube ; lower lip longer than u^^per ; 

 anthers included, mucronate ; capsule truncate, apiculate — August 

 and September — Ziaretdagh in Amanus, and northward. 



16. RMY]?^'€IIO€€>Il¥S, Griseb. Rhynchocoiiys. 



Calyx laterally compressed, bilabiate, the upper lip bidentate or 

 retuse. the lower bifid. Corolla tube short, cuneate-campanulate, the 

 galea tapering into a long proboscis-like beak with conduplicate mar- 

 gins, forming a sheath to the style, the lower lip spreading, 3--lobed. 

 Stamens didynamous, with short filaments, anthers oblique, glabrous, 

 with equal, muticous cells. Capsule globular, more or less flattened, 

 the valves coherent by means of the partition. Seeds definite in num- 

 ber, striate or ribbed — Annual or perennial herbs, vnih. opposite 

 leaves. 



R. Boi§§ieri, Post. (Plant. Postian. Fasc. V. p., 14). .3 

 to .5, crisp-pappillose, turning black in drying ; stems weak, simple or 

 sparingly branched. Leaves very short-p^jtioled, elliptical, cordate or 

 truncate at base, crenate-dentate. Flowers axillary, solitary, forming 

 a long, leafy, one-sided raceme ; upper lip of calyx broader and once 

 and a°half to twice as long as lower, scarcely notched at tip, lower lip : 

 bilobed ; corolla yellow, the galea gibbous above, ending in an awl- 

 shaped toothless beak, .006 to .008 long, furnished on each side at base , 

 with a triangular, recurved lobule, and expanded at tip into a minute 

 lamina, lower lip broader than long, obtusely 3-lobed ; capsule glabrous ; 

 seeds 15-30, minutely tubercled— July —Middle zone of Amanus. 



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