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gle or panicled. Pods glabrous, oblong-linear, .025 long, .003 broad 



— June — Coelesyria. 



Var. Antiocliia, Boiss. Leaves linear, .01 long. Pod somewbat 

 torulose — Rocks ; Antioch. 



6. O. Liibanotica, Boiss. 5 -1 to .2, tufted, ; branches woody ^ 

 prostrate ; twigs short, rigid, erect, striate. Leaves oblong, ohtme, appres- 

 sed-hairy. Flowers 1-4 io a short terminal raceme ; young pod appres- 

 sed-hairy — Summer — Subalpine Lebanon and Antilebanon, and 

 Coelesyria ; Akherdagh. 



9. RETAMA, Boiss. Juniper. Retem. 



Calyx spathe-like. Claws of petals adnate to staminal tube. All 

 the stamens connate in a closed tube. Pod inflated, spherical or ovate, 

 1-seeded, nearly indehiscent. Seeds not caruncled — Glabrescent 

 shrubs, with branches like those of an Ephedra, sparingly leafy or 

 leafless. 



R. RcBtam, Forsk. 5 Juniper Bush of A. V. Retem. 1 to 3, 

 appressed-puberulent, erect, densely branched. Leaves simple, linear, 

 .005 long. Flowers .01 long, 1-5 in subsessile clusters along the twigs. 

 Pods .01 long, obliquely ovate, inflated, abruptly acuminate-beaked — 

 Early spring — Sandy places ; Gilead ; Jordan Valley, and the 

 deserts southward to Egypt. Said to be found also along the Philis- 

 tine and Phoenician coast. 



10. GOXOCYTISUS, Spach. Gonocytisxjs. 

 Calyx top-shaped, obliquely truncate, obsoletely 2-lipped, the up- 

 per lip short, with 2 remote teeth, the lower 3-toothed. Keel not de- 

 flexed. Claws of lower petals adnate to stamen-tube. All the stamens 

 connate in a closed tube, with anthers bearded at base and apex. Pod 

 obliquely rhomboidal or oblong, flattened, 1-2-seeded — Tall shrubs 

 with slender, green branches, all the leaves except the uj^per trefoil, 

 and small, yellow, racemed flowers. 



Cr. pterocladus, Boiss. 5 ^ to 5, Fig. 90. 



appressed hairy or glabrescent ; branches 



angled, the younger twigs triangular, 



winged. Leaves sessile, leaflets oblong to 



linear, obtuse. Racemes long, loose ; pods 



oblong-rhomboid, with thick border — 



Summer — Dry hills ; coast, and lower 



slopes of coast ranges from latitude of PodofG. pterocladus. 



Lebanon and northward. 



11. SPARTIUM, L. Bkoom. Wuzzdl. 



Calyx membranous, spathe-like, split above, 1-lipped, with 5, mi- 

 nute teeth. Standard broad, round ; claws of wings adherent to sta- 

 minal tube. Petals of keel separate. All the stamens connate in a 

 closed tube. Pod linear, flattened, many-seeded. Seeds not caruncled 



— A shrub or small tree, with simple leaves, mostly on the sterile 

 branches, and showy, yellow flowers. 



S. junceum, L. 5 Wuzzdl. 1 to 4, trunk woody ; upper branch- 

 nearly leafless. Leaves oblong to linear-oblong, acute 



