'V'14 BALANOPHORACE-E (CYNOMORIUM FAMILY.) 



flower; flowers minute; fruit scarcely .003 long, umbonate with short, 

 ovate, connivent lobes of perigonium — Summer — Coast and lower 

 and middle zones of Lebanon, Antilebanon, and Amauus, to alpine 

 regions. 



6, T. macrantltuiii, Fenzl. If .15 to .4, glabrous; stems 

 from a woody root-stock, erect or ascending, paniculate. Leaves linear, 

 acute, dbscurelyonany-nerved. Racemes loose; twigs 1-3-flowered; bracts 

 and bracteoles linear-lanceolate, about as long as flower; perigonium 

 .008 long, cleft for three-fourths of the length of its free portion into 

 linear-lobes tcithinfiexed margin, and incurved tijJ ; stamens nearly as long 

 as lobes; nutlet .005 long, ellipsoid, strongly netted, crowned by the 

 persistent, ascending, divergent calyx-lobes and stamens — June — -El- 

 Jebel-el-Ahmar (Amanus). 



7. T. brachy§teg[iuiii, Post. 2f .1 to .15, glabrous, many- 

 stemmed from neck ; stems decumbent or ascending, flowerless below. 

 Leaves fleshy, linear-triquetrous, .01 long, .001 broad, mucrouulate. 

 Flowers minute, with short, 4-angled pedicels; racemes .01 to .02 long 

 in the upper axils, or compacted in a termincd cyme, leafless or leafy, 

 (Ze^ise ; bracts and bracteoles lanceolate, keeled, shorter than flowers, and 

 little longer tlian fruiting pedicels; nutlet .002 long, ellipsoid, with a 

 very short umbo composed of the lobes — August and September — 

 Gaiour Dagh (Amanus). 



2. O^YRl^, L. OsYRis. 



Flowers dioecious or polygamous. Perigonium o-4-parted, lobes 

 ovate, acute, caducous, tube in staminate flowers slender, in pistillate 

 obconical. Disk concave, lining the upper and entire part of peri- 

 gonium, lobes rounded. Stamens 3-4, inserted at margin of disk, 

 filaments short, anthers 2-celled. Ovary fleshy, inferior ; style short ; 

 stigmas 3-4, alternate with lobes of perigonium. Placenta very short, 

 in the minute cavity of the ovary, bearing at its tip 3-4 ovules. Drupe 

 dry, ovoid-globular, crowned by remnants of^ lobes and disk. Seed 

 filling the drupe, albumen abundant, embryo * short, superior, radicle 

 superior — Slirnbs or trees, with angled branches, the staminate flowers 

 crowded, peciiceiled, the pistillate solitary or few. 



O. alba, L. 5 -5 to .8, evergreen. Leaves elliptical and ob- 

 long to oblong-linear, .01 to .015 long, acute or obtuse, mucronate. 

 Staminate cymes many -flowered, the flowers pedicelled; pistillate cyme^ 

 1 -few-flowered, the flowers subsessile ; bracts caducous ; perigonium 3- 

 lobed; drupe red, .008 in diameter, leathery — May to September — 

 Shrubby places; coast to lower and middle mountain zones. 



Order XCIIL BAE^ANOPHORACEiE, Rich. 

 (Cynomoriu>i Family). 



Parasitic herhs, vnth j)olygamoiis or duecious flowers, 

 crowded on a club-sliaj^ed sjpadix, with an imperfect orfeic- 

 loled 'perigonium, (ours) a single stamen, a 1-celled ovary 

 containing 1, jpendidous omde, the fruit containing seed 

 which fills the cavity, and a minute lateral emhryo, and 

 oleaginous albumen — Ovary inferior or semi-inferior. Frnit 

 indehiscent, nnt-like or somewhat drupe-like. 



