Page -iG. After i). Cajypaduckum. I>. flavuiii, D. C. .4 to 



.5, hirside-viscididous, branching from base and above, branches rigid. 

 Floral leaves short, undivided. Flowers .008 long, yellow, loosely ra- 

 cemed; petal 3-toothed at tip, the lateral teeth longer, half-ovate, the 

 middle tooth short, broad, denticulate; spur as long as petal, curved 

 upward; capsule oblong, .01 to .015 long, tapering at base, a&rw^fZ?/ 

 cuspidate — July — Palmyrene Desert. 



Page 47. After D. Bovei. D. Aniani, Post. (Bull. Herb. Boiss. 

 Ill, p." 152). 11 .G to 1; root of 1-2, oblong tubers; stem glabrous, 

 terete. Leaves glabrous except at ciliate margins and sparingly hairy 

 nerves, the lower .2 to .3 broad, palmately parted into overlapping, 

 obovate-obloug, cuneate, obtusely incised, lobed and toothed segments. 

 Raceme .1 to .3 long, rather dense; floral leaves linear, acute, the lower 

 longer, the upper shorter than blue, .025 long, flowers; peduncles 

 recurved, club-shaped, two-bracted at or below middle, bearded with 

 yellow hairs; spur once and a half as long as sepals, straight; ovaries 

 glabrous — August and September — Subalpine Amanus. 



Page 47. After D. Ithalurense. 

 » * * * Follicles 3-5. Petals separate, entire, the upper falcate, short- 

 spurred, the lower clawed. 



D. ^tapliysag^ria. L. Stavesacre. .5, soft-hirsute. Raceme 

 elongated, often branched at base. Leaves palmately parted into 5-7, 

 lenticular, acute, entire or trifid lobes ; peduncles ^twice as long as 

 flower, 2-bracted; spur obtuse, one-fifth as long as sepals; limb of 

 lower petals obovate-lanceolate; capsule inflated, hirsute — June — 

 Rashein (Lebanon). 



Page 47. Before BERBERIDACEiE. 

 IffEXISPERMACEiE, D. C. (Moon-Seed Family). 



Woody clwibers loith oblong^ obtuse leaves^ no sti])ules^ 

 hypogynous^ dimcious or jpolygamoiis flowers.^ (ours) 6- an- 

 drous and Z-gynous^ sepals and petals six, in tioo roivs, im- 

 hricated in the hud; fruit a 1-seeded driope, (ours) with 

 scanty alhumen, and an incurved enibryo — Carpels free, 

 inserted on the receptacle, style 1. Ovules solitary in carpels, 

 araphitropoiis, attached to ventral sutnre. 



COCCUEITS, D. C. CoccuLus. 



Upper sepals larger. Petals 

 shorter than sepals. Anthers 

 4-lobed. Styles erect or re- 

 curved, undivided. Drupe com- 

 pressed, the scar of the style 

 near the base; stone tubercled 

 at back, deeply excavated at 

 sides; seed horseshoe-shaped; 

 cotyledons linear, flat. 



C. L.cseba, Del. 5 Glau- 

 cous, puberulent; branches 

 slender, elongated somewhat twining. Leaves oblong, subsessile. 

 Cymes few-flowered, short-peduncled, axillary — Summer — Sinai. 



(a) Piece of pistillate plant of ^renispermum 

 Leffiba. (b) Piece of of staininato plant of same. 



