726 EUPHORBIACEiE. (SPURGE FAMILY.) 



B. loiigifolia, Boiss. 5-6 to 1 or more, glabrous. Leaves 

 oblong-elliptical, .02 to .04 long, obtuse or retuse. Staminate flowers 

 lateral, short-pedicelled ; sepals oblong-lanceolate; anthers oblong- 

 sagittate; horns of ovary almost as long as cell; capsule .01, long, 

 horns recurved — June and July — Base of Cassius and Amanus ; 

 Antioch. 



3. AXDRACHXE, L. Andrachne. 



Flowers monoecious. Calyx more or less deeply 5-parted. Petals 

 membranous, shorter than calyx, in pistillate flowers minute. Disk 

 furnished with 5, free glands, inserted opposite the petals. Staminate 

 Jloicers: stamens 5, filaments more or less connate at base, anthers 

 short, 2-celled; pistil abortive. Pistillate fioicers : corolla small or 

 abortive ; ovary resting on glands of disk, 3-celled, cells with 2 ovules, 

 attached at central angle ; styles 3, bifid or biparted, stigmas somewhat 

 club-shaped ; capsule consisting of 3, two-seeded carpels ; seeds destitute 

 of caruncle; embryo central, in fleshy albumen, radicle pointing toward 

 hilum — Prostrate, delicate shrubs, with minute, alternate, stipuled 

 leaves, and small white flowers. 



1. A. teJepliioiclcs, L. 2^ Libbdneli. .1 to .4, glabrous, glau- 

 cous; stems filiform, simple or branching, leafy. Leaves petioled, 

 obovate to transversely oblong and elliptical, .002 to .01 long, stipules 

 triangular-peltate, membranous, fringed. Flowers .003 broad, 3-1 in 

 axils, short-pedicelled; sepals rhomhic, white-margined; petals lanceo- 

 late, rather shorter than calyx ; glands of disk two-lobed, one-third as 

 long as petals ; capsule depressed-glabrous — Summer — Common to 

 middle mountain zones; Jordan Valley; Dead Sea; Sinai. 



2. A. aspera, Sprcng. 5 Kimmdsh A to A, 2)('pillose-scaorons or 

 hirteUous; branches rigid, slender, simple, or branching. Leaves 

 2)etioled, reniform to orhiculai\ .002 to .01 long, cordate at base, the 

 upper sessile, smaller. Flowers .003 broad, 3-1 in axils, short- 

 pedicelled; sepals lanceolate, obtuse; petals shorter than calyx; glands 

 of cliskiVi staminate Jiowej'S 2^^^i'^l^-^'^^^{fof"^^h i?i pistillate obovate, truncate ; 

 capsule depressed, hirsute — Spring — Dead Sea, Et-Tih, and Sinfii. 



4. CROZOPHORA, Neck. Crozophora. 



Flowers moncecious. Calyx 5-parted, valvular in bud. Disk 

 glandular, o-lobed. Stamiriate flowers : petals 5, alternate with sepals. 

 Stamens 5-15, in 1-3 whorls, the filaments coalesced in a central column, 

 the anthers 2-celled, with an excurreut, mucronate connective. Pistillate 

 flowers: petals 5, narrow, sometimes 0; staminodes 5 or 0; ovary globu- 

 lar, 3-ceiled, cells 1-ovuled ; styles 3, 2-fid or -parted, stigmatose on 

 one side; capsule ovate -globular, consisting of 3, 1-seeded, 2-valved 

 cells; seed tapering at tip, triquetrous, without caruncle; embryo 

 central in oleaginous albumen ; cotyledons broad, radicle short — Herbs 

 or shrubs with stellate or scurfy hair, and alternate, stipuled leaves. 



I. €. tiiictoria, L, Faq<iUo-el-JIumr. .3, stellate - woolly, 

 not pannous, grey; stem forked. Leaves long-petioled, rounded, sub- 

 cordate, or short-cuneate at hsise, rhomiic-ovate, .02 to .06 long, obtuse, 

 repand-serrate and often obscurely Z-lobed. Staminate flowers subdecan- 

 drotis\ sepals linear-lanceolate, petals linear — Summer — Fields and 



