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3. ;^. Phili§tsea, Boiss. © .3 to .3, decumbent, puberulent-vis- 

 cid, and rough with tubercled hairs. Leaves lanceolate-oblong, taper- 

 ing at base, the floral triangular-acuminate longer than flowers. Ra- 

 cemes leafy, rather dense in fruit; calyx cleft for one-third its length ; 

 corolla 'pale orange; nutlets obsoletely puberulent, netted-veined, lasilar 

 margin plaited, dentate — Sj^ring — Philistine Plain; Beersheba. {Too 

 near the last). 



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Nutlets reniform, horizontal, obtuse, attached hy middle of sinus. 



4. IV. ventricosa, S. et S. .1 to .4, asperulous with short 

 wool and scattered hairs. Leaves oblong to oblong-linear, obtuse, the 

 radical tapering at base. Raceme terminal, simple or bifid; calyx cleft 

 for one-fourth its length ; corolla white, minute ; nutlets slightly netted- 

 plaited — Spring — Coast; Coelesyria; eastern tableland from el-Balqa 

 to Damascus, and northward. 



18. AL.K.A1VNA, Tausch. Alkanet. 



Calyx 5-parted. Corolla regular, funnel-shaped, not plaited at 

 throat but with small, transverse, glabrous, sometimes obsolete wrin- 

 kles at the naked throat, and a small, glabrous, ring-shaped nectary 

 at base. Stamens whorled or spirally inserted near middle of tube; 

 anthers nearly sessile, included. Stigma capitate or bilobed. Nutlets 

 4, or by abortion 2-1 , warty or pitted-wrinkled, either slightly curved, 

 with a horizontal beak, and broad, basilar sinus, or strongly curved 

 with a nearly vertical beak, and narrow, basilar sinus; the areola flat, 

 often stipitate at base or toward middle of sinus. Pericarp brittle; 

 seed curved — Herbs, often with shrubby base, and colored roots. 



* Nutlets wrinhled-scroMculate or reticulate. 

 t Flowers hlue. 



1. A. §trig^osa, Boiss. If .3 to .3, strigose-canescent, branch- 

 ing from base and above. Leaves linear, .01 to .04 long, obtuse or 

 acutish, with lower mid-rib prominent, the upper leaves somewhat 

 clasping. Bracts longer than calyx; calyx growing but little in fruit; 

 corolla nearly ticice as long as calyx, limb .004 broad; nutlets .003 

 hro^i^d., areola sessile — Spring — Jerusalem to Moab, Gilead, northern 

 Palestine, Damascus, and Aintab. 



Var. major, Post. Leaves .05 to .08 long, .006 to .008 broad. 

 Plant stouter and more strigose — Aintab. 



2. A. Syriaca, Boiss. et Hoh. 2f .2 to .35, viscidulous with 

 short wool intermixed with spreading hairs ; stems erect or ascending. 

 Lower leaves linear, acute, upper and bracts broader at base, somewhat 

 clasping, lanceolate, acute. Bracts longer than calyx ; fruiting calyx 

 enlarged, at length deflexed, lobes lanceolate-subulate; corolla-tube 

 only a little longer than calyx, limb .005 broad; nutlets .003 broad, 

 areola stipitate —May and June — Aleppo to Aintab, and northward. 



3. A. Sbattuckia, Post. (Sp. nov.) If .lb to .^,velvety-canescent 

 with short wool, intermixed with villi; stems ascending, branched above. 

 Lower leaves linear-lanceolate, tapering to a petiole, upper cordate- 

 clasping at base, oblong-lanceolate, .03 to .03 long, obtuse or acutish. 



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