654: LABIATE. (MINT FAMILY.) 



or longer. Whorls 6-flowered, distinct, spiked ; bracts subulate-spiny, 

 shorter than calyx-tube ; calyx-tube obconical, lirrib Iroacl, membranous^ 

 dbsoletely pentagonal, ^-mucronate, .03 broad in fruit; corolla white, 

 shorter than calyx — June and July — Fields and roadsides; coast, 

 mountains to subalpine regions, and interior plains ; Jordan Valley. 



2, M. §piiiosa, L. .5 to 1 or more, glabrescent; stem 

 stout, simple or sparingly branched below. Leaves petioled, round or 

 round-ovate, .03 to .06 in diameter, truncate, cordate, or cuneate at 

 base, deeply incised-loled and coarse-serrate^ the floral longer than whorls. 

 Whorls 6-10-flowered ; bracts subulate, spiny, shorter than calyx-tube; 

 calyx-tube obconical, limb coriaceous, bilabiate, oblique, the upper lip 

 erect, lanceolate, spiny -tip2)ed, the loicer half-round-pentagonal, beset loith 

 7, slender pricMes, tlie alternate ones shorter ; corolla white, limb longer 

 than calyx-tube — May to July — Coast and lower zone of Lebanon. 



24. BAL.L.OTA, L. Fetid Horehound. 



Calyx funnel-shaped or obconical, with 10-nerved tube, generally 

 grooved, and 5-19 teeth. Corolla-tube included or slightly exserted, 

 hairy-ringed within, the upper lip erect, oblong, the lower spreading, 

 3-lobed, with middle lobe retuse. Stamens 4, ascending under galea, 

 with exserted anthers approximated in pairs, and separate, diverging 

 cells. Style bifid. Nutlets obtuse — Perennial herbs, sometimes shrubby 

 at base. 



* Calyx-limb 10- co-toothed or -crenate. Bracts not spiny. 

 t Calyx-limb membranous-expended, short crenate or dentate. 



1. M. ]>ainasce»a, Boiss. 71 Asaghdn. .3 to .4, stems numer- 

 ous, erect, flexuous, densely white, appressed-cocoony. Leaves few, or- 

 bicular, .01 to .015 broad, short petioled, grey- woolly, crisp, wrinkled, 

 crenate. Whorls 2-3, quite remote, many-flowered, as large as a small 

 walnut; bracts oblong-spathulate ; ca\jx wJiite- woolly, limb .005 to .007 

 broad, with 10-12, spimdose, crenae at margin — April to June — Sali- i 

 hiyah near Damascus. 



2. ]B. uiidulata, Fresen, 11 .3 to .0, stems numerous, glandu- . 

 lar and Mi'sute. Leaves villous on both sides, orbicular, .015 to .03 

 broad, crisp, wrinkled, crenate. Whorls numerous, many-flowei'ed, 

 distinct; bracts linear-spathulate ; calyx glandular-pubescent, limb .008 , 

 to .013 broad, loith undulate, muticous, obsoletely crenate margin — April 

 to June — Common from Lebanon, Antilebanon, Damascus and Hauran, 

 southward to Et-Tih and Sinai. 



1 1 Calyx-limb shm^t, cleft nearly to base into 10, unequal teeth. Stems 



brittle. 



3. B. §axatilis, Sieb. If .3 to .6; stems numerous, brittle, as- 

 cending, naked at base, hirtulous. Leaves hirtulous, canescent at 

 lower, grey at upper face, petioled, wrinkled, crenulate, cordate-ovate, '. 

 .01 to .04 long, the floral about as long as calyces. 'Yfhorls feio-flower- 1 

 ed, loose, flowers short-peduncled ; bracts subulate, one-third as long as , 

 calyx ; calyx-tube strongly ribbed and grooved, teeth triangular, spiny- 

 mucronate, somewhat recurved, one-fourth as long as tube, the alter- 

 nate ones smaller ; corolla pale pink, with somewhat exserted tube, , 

 and Ufid hood — Summer and autumn — Rocks ; lower mountains to 

 subalpine and alpine regions ; common. 



