658 LABIATE. (MINT FAMILY.) 



9. P. platy§te§:la, Post. (Plant. Postian. Fasc. VI., p. 15). 

 5 .5 to 1, flocculent-woolly, stem glabrescent. Leaves crenate, wrin- 

 kled, oblong to ovate-oblong, .03 to .1 long, 



those of stem petioled, cuneate to rounded, sub- Fig. 309. 



truncate, or cordate at base, obtuse ; floral leaves 

 sessile, once to thrice as long as icliorls. Whorls 

 3 or more, as large as a walnut or larger ; bracts 

 oMong-ovate, to obovate-cuneate, pinnately nerved, 

 at length glabrescent, the inner cuspidate, as long 

 as calyces; calyx .012 to .015 long in flower, 

 golden-stellate-hairy, at length glabrescent in 

 grooves, truncate, tlie 5 more prominent ribs ex- 

 current in sjnnes .002 long, the sinuses muticous ; inner bract and calyx of 

 corolla yellow, once and two-thirds as long as ^*'^°''''' piatystegia. 



calyx; nutlets glabrous, glossy — April and May — Valleys around 

 Dead Sea. 



10. P. parvifoSta, Post. (Plant. Postian. Fasc. , p. )• 5 -^ 

 to .6; new branches rusty -pannous. Leaves clustered at joints, very 

 much wrinkled, short-petioled, truncate or sub-cordate at base, oUong- 

 elliptical, .015 to .025 long, .006 to .008 broad, thick, pannous with 

 stellate wool, greenish at upper surface, rusty -canescent at lower, crenu- 

 late, obtuse. Whorls 1-3, remote ; flowers sessile, with 3-parted bracts, 

 the divisions linear, stifl', pungent, appressed, as long as calyces ; calyx 

 .01 to .012 long in fruit, rusty-pannous, angled-grooved, truncate, ribs 

 excurrent in spines .002 long; corolla*** — Summer — Bitias; A- 

 manus. 



li. P. cli2'y§opIsyIla, Boiss. 1i 1 or more, appressed-woolly, 

 golden. Leaves reticulated, crenulate, petioled, cordate to ovate, 

 .015 to .045 long. Whorl terminal, or 2, remote, the ^oral leaves as 

 long as flowers' or longer ; flowers somewhat pedicelled, 3-bracted, 

 bracts somewhat shorter than calyx; calyx golden-paunous, .01 long in 

 flower, angled-grooved, truncate, teeth broad, short, the primary ribs 

 ending in a minute, prickly mucro; corolla yellow, twice as long as 

 calyx ; nutlets glabrous — May to July — Subalpine Lebanon, Hermon, 

 and Antilebanon. 



Var. ©blonglfolla, Boiss. Leaves oblong, somewhat cuneate at 

 base ; whorls smaller, fewer-flowered — xlmanus. 



12. P. yiseoia, Poir. 5 -8 to 1.5, rather sparingly woolly, 

 viscid above. Leaves .06 to .15 long, more or less crenate or serrate, 

 ovate to oblong-lanceolate, canescent at lower surface, green or more 

 or less canescent at upper, the lower petioled, cordate at base, the floral 

 acuminate, twice to three times as long as flowers. Whorls 2-4, many- 

 flowered, .03 to .2 ^^dj:t;^o-wers somewhat pedicelled, bracts usually 3, 

 about as long as calyx; calyx hispid, Y\B,QidL, i^eih unequal, ovate acu- 

 minate, subulate at tip, the longer pair about .004 long; galea bifid — 

 May to August — Dry places; coast and mountains to 1000 m. 



Var. augu§tifolia, Boiss. Leaves lanceolate, .015 to .02 broad 

 at base. Whorls fewer. Calyx-teeth smaller — Lebanon ; Beirut ; Nusairy 

 Mountains. 



13. P. Shepardi, Post. (Plant. Postian. Fasc. , p. ). U -6 



to .8; stem simple, appressed-tomentellous, tchite. Leaves wrinkled, 



