CYNOCRAMBEyE. (CYNOCRAMBE FAMILY.) 738 



ends. Cymes dense, oo -flowered; bmcts scarcely enlarging in fruit; 

 perfect flowers few, sterile, tlic rest pistillate ; the fruiting perigonium 

 scarcely enlarging, taicmj, indurated^ with connivent lobes — March to 

 May — Walls and shady rocks; coast and coast-ranges, 



4, P. al§iiicfolia, Del. Lkzeiq. Wiidein-el-Fdr. .2 to .4, 

 puberulent; stems filiform, flaccid, diffuse. Leaves .00^} to .01 long, 

 rounded at base, ovate. ('ymes axillary, ?i-flowercd, tlic lower perfett, 

 sterile loith a smrill lanceolate hract, the other two pistillate with three 

 cordate-ovate, menibranous bracts, .003 long in fruit; ])erigonium growing 

 little in fruit, with connivent lobes — Marcli to May — Rocky and 

 shady places in the mountains of the interior from Aleppo, Palmyra 

 and Damascus to Hebron and ct-Tih, and southward to Sinai and 

 Egypt, and eastward. 



9. FOR^KAHLiEA, L. Foeskahlea. Lizzeiq. 



Flowers monoecious, enclosed in an involucre of 4-6 leaves which are 

 fleecy on their inner surface, the outer more numerous, staminate, the 

 inner pistillate; more rarely the pistillate alone in 2-leaved involucres. 

 Staminate flowers : perigonium tubular below, dilated above, 1-lipped, 

 somewhat 3-toothed; stamen 1. Pistillate fioicers : perigonium 0; ovary 

 elliptical, fleecy, tapering into a filiform, hispid stigma; akene straight, 

 fleecy, compressed, albumen little — Perennial herbs or shrubs, with 

 alternate leaves, and free, lateral stipules. 



F. tcuacissiiiia, L. 1i Lizzdq. Lizzeiq. .1 to .0, appresscd 

 woolly, and beset with hooked, stinging hairs; stems simple or branch- 

 ing. Leaves ovate-orbicular to rhombic-ovate, .01 to .02 long, short- 

 petioled, cuneate at base, coarse-toothed toward apex, green at upper 

 surface and white-woolly at lower. Involucres axillary, globulnr- 

 turbinate, nearly sessile, 4-1 in a cluster, some with 4-5, lanceolate, 

 acute, silky-hispid involucre-leaves, others with 2 — ]\[avcli — Around 

 Dead Sea, and southward to Sinai and Egypt. 



Ordeb XCVI. CYjVOCRAMBE^. Nees. 

 (Cynocrambe Family). 



Flaccid, Ijrostrate herls, growing in crevices of rod's 

 and walls, with monoecious flowers, and a fruit soraewhat 

 fleshy in the recent state, Ijecoming a dry, indehiscent nutlet 

 — Staminate floioers : stamens 8-20 or fewer, inserted at 

 bottom of perigoninm. .Pistillate flowers : perigonium tubn- 

 lar-funiiel-shapcd, adherent to tlie ovary, the limb ehil)-urn- 

 sbaped, 4:-2-lobed, soon caducous. Ovary 1-cellcd, bulging 

 outward, nearly globular; style linear-club-shaped, lateral 

 on account of the inflated ovary, almost basilar, papillose 

 from middle; ovule 1, basilar, campylotropou.s; seed globular, 

 testa thin, embryo liorseslioe-shape, vertical in axis of fari- 

 naceous albumen. 



CYXOCKAMBE, Diosc. (Theligonum, L.). Cynochambe. 



Staminate jlowers : lobes of perigonium valvate in bud, at length 

 revolute; filaments capillary, anthers linear, bilocular, versatile. Pistil- 



