LAIJIAT^. (MINT FAMILY.) 



621 



leafy, simple. Leaves sessile, oblong to lanceolate, obtuse, .004 to 

 ,007 long, concave and o-ucrved below. Cymes 1-3-flowered, short- 

 peduncled, shorter than axillary leaf, in a continuous, slender spike; 

 calyx-teeth lanceolate, teeth villous ; corolla purpU — Summer — 

 Ehedin (Blanche). 



1 1 Nutlets oUuse. 



4. M. Oraeca, L. 21 .3 to ,G, pubescent or villous; rootstock 

 woody, with slender, ascending, usually simple branches. Leaves ses- 

 sile, ovate to ovate-oblong, .005 to .01 long, the upper lanceolate to 

 linear. Cymes peduucled, o-7-flowered, one-sided ; calyx-teeth awl- 

 shaped, ascending, throat villous ; corolla pink, with somewhat exsert- 

 cd tube — May to July — Rocks; coast, and mountains of coast and in- 

 terior to 1300 m. 



Var. laxiflora, Post. Canescent. Cymes loose, 1-7-flowered — 

 Subalpine Lebanon ; Zahleh. 



Var. (leiisiflora, Post. Cymes dense, short-peduncled — Subal- 

 pine and alpine Lebanon; Zahleh. 



5. M. §inaica, Bth. 5 Suleiseleh. .3 to .4, appressed-canes- 

 cent, much branched, the younger branches erect, thickish, nearly or 

 quite simple. Leaves few, remote, nearly sessile, ovate to oblong, 

 .004 long, with somewhat revolute margins. Whorls sessile, many- 

 flowered, small, remote; calyx .015 to .03 long, scabridulous, with lan- 

 ceolate, straight teeth less than half as long as tube — Early summer 



— El-Ghor; El-'Arabah, and southward to Sinai. 



* * Anther-cells divergent, joined at tip ly a punctiform connective. 



6. Ifl, nummularifolia, Boiss. % .05 to .1, pale green, vil- 

 lous, especially above ; stems filiform, brittle, leafy, ascending. Leaves 

 round-ovate to ovate, subcordate, .003 to .006 long, the lower obtuse, 

 the upper acutish. Flowers solitary or twin, short-pedicelled, forming 

 an ovate-oUong, tei'minal, leafy raceme ; calyx-teeth nearly twice as long 

 as tube, lajiceolate-suhulate ; corolla purple, tube a little longer than calyx 



— June to September — Alpine and subalpine summits of Lebanon 

 and Hermon. 



7. M. L.ibaiiotica, Boiss. If .05 to .25, 

 woolly-canescent ; stems filiform, brittle, simple, 

 erect. Leaves sessile, orbicular to ovate, obtuse, 

 .005 to .013 long. Cymes short-peduncled, 7-2- 

 jlowered, remote, loosely racemed, sometimes some- 

 what panicled ; calyx-teeth one fourth to one fifth 

 as long as tube, triangular-acuminate ; corolla 

 pink, once and a half to twice as long as calyx — 

 July to September — Alpine Lebanon and Anti- 

 lebanon. 



8. M. ^licpardi, Post. (Jour. Liun. Soc. 

 Bot. Vol. XXIV. p. 439, under Nepeta). U .2 

 to .5, appressed-velvcty, greyish -white; stems 

 numerous, simple, or branching from woody base, 

 stiff. Leaves rhombic-ovate, tapering to a short 

 petiole, obtuse, .01 to .005 long, entire. Cy- 



FiG. 388. 



Flowering branch, 



and lower leaf of 



Micromeria Libunotic*. 



