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LEGUMIK03A. (PXTLSE PAMILT.) 



ovate ; calyx more than half as long as white, or pale flesh-colored corol- 

 la, lobes lanceolate, somewhat 3-nerved, short, ciliate, tube glabrous, 

 obconical, lO-grooved beneath, somewhat longer than the four upper, 

 equal lobes, lower lobe longer — Summer — Fields ; coast. 



22. T. plebeium, Boiss. © .1 to .15, puberulent, hairs tvher- 

 cled at lase ; stems diffuse. Free portion of stipules short-lanceolate ; 

 leaflets ovate, obtuse .006 to .008 long. Heads short-peduncled, ovate, 

 .01 long, in fruit compact ; calyx appressed-hirsute, one-third as long 

 as whitish-yellow corolla, lobes lanceolate-subulate, the lowest longer, 

 in fruit dilated, triangular-lanceolate, 3-nerved, tube deeply grooved, 

 ovate, about as long as lobes — May — Between Rasheiyah and Damas=- 

 cus. 



23. T. Alsadami, Post. (Journal Linnaean 

 Society, Botany, xxiv., 435.) .1 to .15 hispidulous, 

 hairs not tubercled ; stems erect or ascending. Free 

 part of stipules lanceolate ; leaflets oblong to obovate, cu- 

 neate at base, .006 to .008 long. Heads subsessile or 

 short-peduncled, ovate-spherical, .01 to .013 long, in 

 fruit, ovate, compact ; calyx appressed-hirsute, one- caiyx of t, ai- 

 third as long as white corolla, lobes lanceolate-subu- ^^^ 4*^^'. ™^8"*^" 

 late, in fruit triangular -acuminate, 3-nerved, the ® lameters. 

 lowest longer, tube strongly ribbed and grooved, in fruit twice as long 

 as lobes, camyanulate, at length ovate, contracted at apex — Spring — 

 Fields between Qureyah and el-Kufr (Hauran). 



24. T. scutatum, Boiss. .2 to .4, loose-hairy, erect and 

 procumbent. Stipules membranous, violet-striped, free portion leaflike, 

 lanceolate; leaflets obovate, sometimes retuse. Heads ovate, .015 long, 

 in fruit oblong, .02 long, .013 broad, very compact and soon deciduous; 

 calyx one-third as long as whitish-yellow corolla, lobes 3-5-nerved, lan- 

 ceolate, the lowest twice as long as the others ; fruiting calyx dilated- 

 obconical, deeply grooved, lobes coate-triangular, strongly reflexed — 

 Spring — Coast, and lower mountains ; common. 



25. T. clypeatum, L. © Bezdz-ul-Boqr, 3 to .5, sparingly 

 loose-hairy, procumbent. Stipules dilated, half -ovate, acute ; leaflets 

 large, obovate, the upper mucronate, the lower retuse. Heads long-pe- 

 duncled, iu flower obovate, .03 long, .025 broad, in fruit ovate, compact, 

 .03 long, .02 broad, soon deciduous ; calyx one-third as long as pinh- 

 ish-white corolla, lobes leaflike, lanceolate, the lower -p ^^2 

 flve times as long as the rest ; fruiting calyx with four, 



dilated, spreading, many-nerved, ovate-triangular 

 lobes, shorter than the grooved tube, and a lower 

 oblong -lanceolate lobe much longer than tlie others, all 

 strongly reflexed — Spring — Grassy places ; com- 

 mon. A showy species both in flower and fruit. 



26. T. scabrum, L. © .1 to .5, appressed- 

 hairy ; stems stiff, ascending or prostrate. Free part 

 of stipules triangular-acuminate ; leaflets leathery, 

 obovate-oblong. Heads solitary, ovate, tapering at 

 base ; calyx longer than whitish corolla, lobes un- 

 equal, lanceolate, rigid, spinescent-tipped, l-nerved, ^pp^' '^^J and 

 nearly as long as tube, at length recurved; fruiting ^'"''Sum.''^ "^^ 



