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RTJBIACE2B. (MADDER FAMILY.) 



setaceous, once to twice as long as exceedingly minute, finely granulated, 

 glabrous, rarely hirtulose. fruit — Spring- Dry places; Lebanon; 

 Beirut. 



24. G. tenui§§iniuiii, M.B. .3, glabrous ; stem slender, 

 zigzag, difiusely paniculate from base. Leaves in sixes, linear-lanceo- 

 late, long-mucronate, scabrous. Cymes 5-7-flowered, very divaricate ; 

 pedicels setaceous, much longer than minute, glabrous, rarely hirsute 

 fruit — Spring — Rocky places; Syrian coast and lower ranges of 

 Lebanon, Antilebanon, Cassius, and northward. 



25. O. uig^ricaiis, Boiss. © .lto.l5, erect, scabrous, drying 

 black, divaricately branched, corymbose. Leaves in sizes to eights, linear, 

 with revolute margins, mucronate, more or less retrorsely scabrous. 

 Pedicels filiform, hirsute or glabrous, 2-3-chotomous in fruit, twice as 

 long as glabrous or somewhat hirsute, .001 long fruit — Spring — Vine- 

 yards and fields ; Antilebanon to Hauran, Aleppo, and northward, and 

 eastward. 



Var. bracliychsetum, Boiss. Bristle much shorter than lobe 

 of corolla — Easheiyah ; Palmyra. 



26. O. j^yriaciiin, Boiss. .06 to .1, glabrous, drying black; 

 stem thickish, divaricately lyranchedfrmn base, corymbose. Leaves in 

 eighth,, short ohlong-spathulate, .003 to .005 long, mucronate, with re- 

 trorsely scabrous margins, the upper in pairs, narrower. Peduncles 

 trichotomous ; pedicels thickish, scarcely twice as long as flower and 

 glabrous fruit — Spring — Aintab. 



27. O. Hierosolymitaiium, L. 



.3 to .5, glabrous or sparingly hirsute, 

 drying more or less black ; stem rigid, 

 more or less paniculately branched. Leaves 

 i7i sixes to eights, lowermost often obovate, 

 others lenticular to linear-layiceolate, with 

 more or less revolute, retrorsely scabrous 

 margins. Peduncles capillary, trichoto- 

 mous; cymes dense ; floral leaves remote 

 from flowers ; pedicels capillary, hirsute, 

 or glabrous, a little longer than hirsute 

 or glabrous flowers ; fruit glabrous or 

 hispid, .0005 long — Spring — Shady 

 places ; common among rocks through- 

 out, along coast and lower mountain re- 

 gions, and tablelands. 



Fm. 215. 



Leaves and flowers of G, Hieroso- 

 lymitanum, L. var. hispidura. 



Var. liispidum. Post. Liflorescence and 

 fructification hispid. 



Var. glabrum. Post. Inflorescence and 

 fmctification glabrous. Rarer than last. 



28. O. Jtidaicum, Boiss. .1 to .25, 

 branching from base, hispid; stems thickish. 

 Leaves in fours and fives, obovate-spathulate to 

 elliptical and linear, icith scarcely revolute margins, 

 vAthout mucro. Cymes axillary and terminal, 

 sessile or on short, often deflexed peduncles ; ped- 



FiG. 216. 



Leaves and fruit of G.Ju 

 daicuin, var. glabrescens. 



