LABIATJI. (MINT FAMILY.) 



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Fig. 311. 



Teucrium Auraniticum. 

 (a) Flowering cymes, (i) Fruiting cyme. 



included — May — Fields ; Haur^n. 

 Cymosum, between Scordium and Sjnnularia (Fl. 



9. T. Auraniticum, Post. 

 (Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. XXIV, 

 p. 440). 2^ .3 to .5, growing in 

 clumps, shrubby at base, papillose- 

 'puberulent, pale green; stems flex- 

 uous, paniculate-branched from 

 base. Leaves short-pctioled, 

 ovate-oblong, .015 to .025 long, 

 .008 to .015 broad, rounded at 

 base, obtuse, obsoletcly crenate- 

 dentate, the floral oblong-lenticu- 

 lar, entire, minute, shorter than 

 cymules. Cymes long-peduncled ; 

 cymules pedicelled, bracts linear; 

 calyx.0031ong in flower, .006 long 

 and inflated in fruit, strongly 20- 

 ribbed, teeth hroad-triangular, ob- 

 tuse, apiculate, one-fourth as long as 

 tiibe ; corolla white, hairy, about 

 twice as long as calyx ; stamens 

 Forms a new section 

 Or. IV. p. 814). 



10. T. spiuosum, L. Low, pubescent; stem erect, decussate- 

 branched almost from base, forming a panicle with spinescent tips. 

 Lower leaves soon dropping, petioled, oblong in outline, jdnnatipartite 

 into obtusely 2-3-fid lobes, the upper sessile, smaller, dentate, the 

 ippermost minute, entire, ovate. Whorls remote, 2-4-flowered ; hracts 

 zlianged to stiff spines longer tlian calyces ; pedicels as long as calyx ; 



kndular-hispid, at length deflexed; upper calyx-tooth ovate, out- 

 ivardly cancave, the lower 4 subulate ; corolla white, scarcely twice 

 is long as calyx; anthers scarcely exserted— Spriug — Fields; Galilee, 

 Vleppo, and northward. 



11. T. paederotoidcsi, Boiss. et Haussk. % Velvety- woolly, 

 /iscidulous, grey; neck woodj^ beset with persistent remains of 

 )ranchcs; branches .05 to .07 long, erect, leafy, ending in an oyaife- 

 hlong, dense sjnlce .015 to .02 long. Leaves subsesdle, cuueate-oblong, 

 015 to .02 long, obsoletcly crenate, prominently nerved at lower sur- 

 ace, obtuse, the upper acutish, forming an involucre to the spike, 

 tracts oblong-acuminate, longer than flowers; pedicels short; calyx 

 004 long, hispidulous, teeth rather more than half as long as tube, the 

 ipper three oblong, obtuse, the lower two lanceolate, acute ; corolla 



ink, hairy, once-and-a-half as long as calyx — June — Fissures of rocks 

 lear Aintab, 



12. T. MoiUbrctii, Bth. If Velvety-woolly, hviitlc; branches 

 lumerous, flexuous, tangled, .04 to .25 long, ending in an ovate-ob- 

 ong, dense spike. Leaves short-petioled, truncate at base, ovate to 

 blong, obtusely coarse-crenate. Bracts linear-lanceolate, acute, short- 

 r than calyx; pedicels about as long as calyx, nodding; calyx campan- 

 late, hispid, teeth about half as long as tube, the upper three ovate, 

 btuse, the lower two lanceolate, acute ; corolla (dried) reddish, twice 

 s long as calyx — June — Vertical rocks at base of Cassius to Anti- 

 ch. Seleucia, Darkdsh and Edlip, and northward. 



