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2. PUTORIA, Pers. Putoria. 



Flowers perfect. Calyx-tube oblong, limb with 4, short teeth. 

 Corolla hypocraterif orm, with long, slender tube dilated above, limb 4- 

 parted. Stamens 4, inserted near apex of corolla tube, filaments ei- 

 serted. Style long, somewhat exserted ; stigma scarcely distinct from 

 style, with 2, short lamellae. Fruit an oblong berry, not splitting into 

 two parts — Low shrubs, with opposite, petioled leaves, and pink 

 flowers, and dark crimson berries. 



P. Calabrlca, L. 5 -^ ^^ -^5 trailing or pendulous, drying 

 black ; branches papillose-puberulent. Leaves oblong or oblong-lan- 

 ceolate, obtuse, short-petioled, revolute-margined ; stipules connate, 

 triangular. Flowers few, sessile, terminal, corymbose-capitate — May 

 to August — Rocks ; Jerusalem to Lebanon, Aintab, Marash and 

 northward. Very fcetid when young. 



3. RUB I A, L. Madder. Fuwwah. 



Flowers perfect, cymose, rarely solitary. Limb of calyx obsolete. 

 Corolla rotate, 5-parted. Mericarps hemispherical, berry-like. Ovules 

 solitary implanted on septum — Perennial herbs or shrubs, with whorled 

 leaves, scabrous-aculeolate along margin, and generally along nerves. 



* Stems erect or ascending^ not climbing. 



1. R. Auclieri, Boiss. 2^ 1.5 to. 5, glabrous. Leaves m/(?^frs, 

 rhomdoid-elUptical, mucronate, 1 -nerved. Cymes few-flowered, tricho- 

 tomous, from the upper and terminal axils ; anthers nearly globular — 

 April to June — Woods ; Syrian coast ; lower and middle zone of 

 Lebanon, Cassius, and Amanus. 



* * Stems climMng or trailing. 



2. R. tinctorum, L. 2^ Madder. Fuwwah. Stems long, climb- 

 ing, herbaceous, scabrous. Leaves 4-6 in a whorl, oblong or lanceolate, 

 often . 06 long, feather-veined below. Cymes leafy, much longer than ax- 

 illary leaves. Anthers linear-oblong — Spring and Summer — Hedges 

 and thickets ; Moab and Gilead to Lebanon, Antilebanon, Damascus, 

 ilems, and northward. Rootsred, {furnishing the well Tcnoton dye). 



3. R. peregrina, L. If Stems climbing, herbaceous, scabrous. 

 Leaves 4-6 in a whorl, oblong or lanceolate, coriaceous, glossy, 1 -nerv- 

 ed, prickly denticulate at nerve and margins. Cymes axillary and 

 terminal, longer than leaves ; corolln \ohes long-aristate ; anthers ovate 

 — Spring — Upper Jordan Valley (Tristram). 



4. R. Olivieri, A. Rich. 5 Stems naked, trailing, decumbent; 

 branches flexuous, minutely puberulent when young. Leaves in sixes, 

 lenticular-oblong, to obovate, leathery, glossy, 1-nerved, scabrous at 

 margin. Cymes axillary, scarcely longer than leaves. Anthers ovate — 

 Spring — Rocks and walls ; coast and lower mountain zone. 



Var. elliptica, Boiss. Leaves elliptical or lenticular. 



Var. stenophylla, Boiss. Leaves oblong-linear. 



4. CAL.I.IPEI.TIS, Stev. Callipeltis. 



Flowers perfect. Limb of calyx obsolete. Corolla 4-o-parted ; 

 tube 0. Stamens 4, very short. Style bifid ; stigmas globular. Ovary 



