LABIATiK. (MINT FAMILY.) 



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spathukte, long-tapering at base, the upper sessile, acutisli. Lower 

 whorls distant, the upper umally forming an almost continuom spike; 

 floral leaves membranous, reticulate, green, cordate, abruptly short-acu- 

 minate, scarcely longer than whorl ; calyx-teeth lanceolate, two-thirds 

 to half as long as tube; corolla yellow^ with included tube — Summer 

 — Rocks; Nahr-el-Kelb (Lebanon). 



5. S. Libaiiotica, Labill. 2^ .4 to 

 .G, many-stemmed, the branches and new- 

 leaves white-woolly, often glabrescent, 

 greenish above; stems angled, slender, sim- 

 ple or stiff-branched. Leaves rigid, reticu- 

 late, spathulate and oblanceolate obtuse to 

 oblong-lanceolate, the upper acute, mucro- 

 nate, usually acutely serrulate. Whorls dis- 

 tant, about .01 long and broad ; floral leaves 

 somewhat membranous, cordate-orbicular, 

 acuminate to abruptly cuspidate or mucro- 

 nate, the loicer longer the upper shorter than 

 whorl ; calyx-teeth sjjiny-mucronate, Ttalf as 

 Z(?72^ as tube ; corolla yellow, with included 

 tube — July to September — Alpine and 

 subalpine Lebanon, Antilebanon, and lower 

 to alpine regions of Cassius, Amanus and _,. „.„ ^,., ,. 



A 1 -L T-w 1 T J.T- J Fig. 303. \Mioils 



Akher Dagh, and northward. of sideritis Libano- 



Var iiicana, Boiss. Densely white- ''"^j^; ^^ ^ ^j^^ ^^. 

 felty — Alpine regions. ^- . ='- - 



Var. linearis, Bth. Green, glabres 

 cent or canescent. Leaves linear-lanceolate 

 Aintab, and northward. 



6. S. ]Vu§airicii§i§, Post. (Plantce Postiante, Fasc. V. p. 15). 

 If .G to .8, pamious; stems simple, stifi. Leaves obovate-spathulate to 

 spathulate and oblong, entire, rugose. Whorls approximated, cup- 

 shaped, .008 long and Iroad, forming an interrupted spike ; floral leaves 

 hroader than long, cordate at base, abruptly and very short-p>»intcd, all 

 alout half as long as whorls ; calyx-teeth one-third to one-fourth as long 

 as tube, a little shorter than yellow corolla — July and August — Be- 

 tween Qal'at-el-Musyaf and El-Blreh (Nusairy Mountains). 



7. *. pullulanN, Vent. If .5 to .8, pr^-;?«€C2/ below, ;>m&^sc«w^ 

 viscid, greenish above ; stems stout, ending in an oppositely-branched 

 panicle. Leaves reticulate, crenate-denticulate, spiny-tipped, oblance- 

 olate to lanceolate-oblong. Whorls numerous, .01 to .02 long and 

 broad, sometimes distant, usually apj)roximatcd ; floral leaves strongly 

 reticulated, membranous, ciliate, puberulent, suborbicular, broader thau 

 long, cuspidate, longer than ichorls ; calyx-teeth shorter than tube, 

 about as long as corolla — May to September — Dry places ; coast, and 

 hill country of Palestine, east and west of Jordan; Lebanon. 



8. S. perfoliata, L. 11 Taranjan. 1 or more, fleecy or more or less 

 glabrescent, or viscid-hairy ; stems yellowish, slender, simple or panickd, 

 stiff. Leaves coriaceous, yellowish^ the lower more or less pannous, ta- 

 pering to a petiole, oblong-spathulate, the stem-leaves sessile, half- 

 clasping, oblong to oblong-lanceolate, denticulate, acute to acuminate. 



Sideritis Nusairien 



sis, 



to linear — Antilebanon : 



