LABIAT/E. (mint FAMILY.) 



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4. B. Antilibanotica, Post. (Plantse Postiansc, Fasc. II. p. 

 20). 21 .3 to .5, (tjipressed-jmicruUiit with short, stellate zcool, intermixed 

 loith longer, simple, branched, oi' stellate, glandular hairs ; shrubby at 

 base; stems numerous, erect, leafy from base. Lchygs roimd-reniformy 

 .01 to .03 broad, strongly wrinkled, paunous, the floral becoming 

 shorter than whorls. Whorls dense, numerous, forming an interrupted 

 raceme or more or less dense spike ; bracts linear, as long as calyx ; ca- 

 lyx strongly ribbed and grooved, teeth triangular-ovate, spiny-mucro- 

 nulate, recurved, one-fifth as long as tube, the alternate ones smaller ; 

 corolla pale pink, tube short-exserted, hood quadrifid — Summer — 

 Valleys of northern Antilcbanon to its alpine summits. 



* * Calyx-Unib ^-toothed. Bracts not spiny, 



5. B. nigra, L. 2t .5 to .8, hirsute or glabrescent. Leaves 

 petioled, ovate, .03 to .05 long, coarse-dentate, all but the uppermost 

 longer than whorls. Whorls commencing low down, distant, some- 

 what peduncled ; bracts linear-subulate, one-half to two-thirds as long 

 as calyx; calyx strongly ribbed and grooved, teeth straight, nearly 

 equal, triangular, one-fifth as long as tube, tapering into a weak 

 prickle; corolla pink, tube exserted — May to July — Roadsides; com- 

 mon. 



25. OTOSTECJIA, Bth. Otostegia. 



Calyx-tube cylindrical, 10-nerved, limb membranous, dilated, 2- 

 lipped, the upper lip narrower and smaller. Corolla with included 

 tube having a hairy ring within, hood erect, very hirsute, lower lip tri- 

 ad, the middle lobe retuse. Stamens ascending, the anthers in pairs 

 jnder the hood, with divergent cells. Style bifid. Xutlets obtuse — 

 Shrubs, (ours) not spiny, others spiny owing to the persistent and 

 growing bracts. 



1. O. Scliimperi, Bth. J Ghasseh. .3 to .5; branches elongat- 

 ed, stiff, minutely velvety. Leaves densely woolly, short-petioled, o- 

 rate, .01 long, crenate, wrinkled at under surface, the floral shorter 

 ;han whorls. Whorls 2-4-flowered ; bracts few, subulate, short ; calyx 

 omeutellous, limb oblique, reticulated, obsoletely 10-crennlate, the 

 ower limb .007 long, ticice as long as upper, nearly as long as tube — 

 Spring — Wadi Zuweirah and southward to Sinai. 



2. O. inoIuccoiclc§« Fig. 308. 

 /ahl. 5 -^ ^o •♦^i branches 

 lerbaceous, hirtulous. Leaves 

 ather long-petioled, short- 

 uneate or truncate at base, 

 vate, .01 to .04 long, hirtu- 

 ous, canescent at under sur- 

 ace. Cymes axillary, few- 

 owered, somewhat pedun- 

 led ; bracts setaceous, very 

 liort; calyx appressed-hairy, 

 mb reticulate, lower lip 

 road, rhomboid-ovate, .01 

 mg, obsoletely 5-7-angled- 

 entate, the upper minute, o- 



2te,^ entire, aciUe — Spring — ^Vhori from middle of stenrof 



inai. * otostegia moluccoidea. 



