144 sile:«e^. (pink family.) 



panicles. Lower leaves ovate or oblong-spathulate, tapering into a 

 petiole, upper lanceolate to linear. Calyx jnihescent-glandular, .02 long, 

 obconical-cvlindrical, in fruit club-shaped, teeth triangular, obtuse ; 

 limb white,' bifid to or below middle into oblong-spathulate lobes ; 

 capsule oblong-ovute, once inid a Mlf to ticiee as long as carpophore — 

 Summer — Fields ; lower and middle zones of mountains. 



47. S. A§tarl.es, Bl. 2^ .2 to .25, sparingly pubescent-viscid ; 

 stems erect. Leaves puberulent, pale green, those of sterile stems ovate- 

 oblong, acute, petioled, those of fertile linear. Flowers 3-5 ; calyx 

 .02 long, red-veined, glabrous, obconical-cylindrical, in fruit club-shaped, 

 teeth oblong, obtuse, white-margined ; limb white, deeply bilobed ; 

 capsule oblong, as long as or ticice as long as carpophore — Summer — 

 Ruins ot Afka ; Aiu Sofar (Lebanon.) Too near the last. 



§ 14. VIRIDIFIiOR.^. 



48. S. Aiiiana, Boiss. 11 .6 to 1, green, pubescent, glandular- 

 viscid above ; stem leafy. Leaves petioled, ovate-oblong, acutish. 

 Flowers of depauperated panicle nodding ; calyx glandular, with 

 branching, green nerves, cylindrical, in fruit glabrescent, club-shaped, 

 teeth lanceolate, membranous-margined ; claws included ; limb whit- 

 ish-o-reen, bifid into linear lobes ; capsule ovate, somewhat slwrter than 

 carpophore, projecting beyond the calyx — May and June — Woody 

 zone of Cassius and Amanus. 



49. S. leucopliylla, Boiss. % A to .6, wooUy-canescent , 

 densely tufted at base, stems slender, viscid above. Radical leaves 

 crowded, obovate-spathulate ; stem-leaves linear-spathulate and linear, 

 very short. Flowers 3-5, terminal, long peduncled, nodding ; calyx 

 .13 long, glandular, cylindrical, tapering below, in fruit club-shaped, 

 teeth ovate, obtuse ; limb linear-cuneate, bifid into linear lobes ; cap- 

 sule oblong, long exserted from calyx, as long as carjjophore — May and 

 June — Jebel Katarina, (Sinai). 



§ 15. liASIOSTEMONES. 



50. S. longipetala, Vent. If A to .6, sparingly puberulent 

 below, glabrous-viscid above. Lower leaves oblanceolate, acute, ta- 

 pering into a petiole, floral lanceolate to linear-lanceolate. Branches 

 of the somewhat one-sided broad panicle long, spreading, 3-7-flowered ; 

 calyx .008 to .01 long, in floicer ol)conical, in fruit turbinate, teeth ovate, 

 ol>tuse ; claw ciliate ; limb white, bipartite into long, linear lobes ; 

 capsule somewhat exserted, ovate-spherical, four times as long as carpo- 

 l)hore — April and May — Common throughout to 1800 m. 



Var. piirpura§cens, Boiss. Petals purple — Aleppo. Wilder- 

 ness of Judea. 



§ 16. SCLEROCAIi YCINiE . 



51. S. §wertisefolia, Boiss. If A to .5, glaucescent, viscid 

 above. Lower leaves obovate-spathulate, acute, petioled ; middle 

 ovate-acute to lanceolate, upper often linear. Peduncles long ; calyx 

 .03 long, cylindrical-obconical, in fruit club-shaped, teeth triangular, 

 acuminate ; claws dilated, exserted ; limb greenish-yellow, bifid into 



