120 POLYGALACE^. (MILKWORT FAMILY.) 



lanceolate, entire, or with a tooth at each 'side of lase. ^e^oXs half as 

 long as tlue corolla — Spring — Mt. Cassius (from base to summit) to 

 Marash, and northward. 



9. T. ebracteolata, Fenzl. .02 to .1, minutely puberu- 

 lent. Leaves remotely crenulate, lowest round-ovate, upper oblong 

 to lanceolate ; stipules 8hort, oblong-linear, with 1-3 teeth at each side 

 of hase. Flowers small ; sepals a little slwrter than yellovf corolla — 

 Spring — Subalpine Lebanon and Antilebanon to Aintab, and north- 

 ward. 



OnDER XI. POL.YOAI.ACEJE. (^Iilkwort Family). 



E-erhs or slightly shruhhy plants with irregular hypo- 

 gynous floioers, fin ours) 8 monadelphous or diadelphous 

 stamens^ their 1-celled anthers opening at the top hy a pore 

 or chinh — Represented bj the typical genus 



POL.YCrAL.A, TouRN. Milkwort. 



Sepals 5, the outer three small, the inner two larger, wing-like. 

 Petals 3, connate below and adnate to stamen tube, the lowest larger, 

 keel-shaped, enclosing the stamens, with a winged crest on its back. 

 Ovary 2-celled with a single anatropous ovule in each. Style simple. 

 Capsule flattened laterally, 2-eelled, loculicidal. Seeds hirsute, sur- 

 rounded at base with a lobed aril. 



* Annuals. Stems nearly simple. Filaments monadel2)hous to middle. • 



1. P. Moiispeliaca, L. 0.2 to .4, stems usually solitary. 

 Leaves dense, lanceolate-linear, acuminate. Racemes long, oo -flowered, 

 terminal ; outer sepals lanceolate ; wings white, elliptical, 3-nerved, 

 veins not anastomosing ; capsules obovate, notched, glabrous — Spring 



— Grassy places ; common to 1000 m. 



* * Perennials. 

 t Racemes becoming lateral by developmeiit of branches. 



2. P, supina, Schreb. % .15 to .3, crisply puberulent ; stems 

 numerous, filiform, decumbent. Leaves obovate to obovate-oblong acute. 

 Racemes 5-15-flowered ; outer sepals boat-shaped ; wings obovate, 

 somewhat stipitate, shorter than corolla, broader than capsule, many- 

 nerved; capsule elliptical, notched at apex, glabrous — May and June 



— Dry shady woods and rocks ; Galilee to Lebanon, Coelesyria, 

 Cassius and northward. 



1 1 Racemes terminal. 



3. P. pruinosa, Boiss. 71 .15 to .3, greyish puberulent, 

 woody at base, with ascending branches. Leaves obovate to elliptical 

 and linear, obtuse. Racemes go -flowered, loose ; outer sepals oblong, 

 acute; wings oblong-obovate, oblique, 3-nerved ; capsule somewhat 

 broader than wings, sessile, obliquely obcordate, glabrous — Summer — 

 Mountains of Aintab and Marash, and northward. 



