546 BORRAGINEiE. (BORAGE FAMILY.) 



Bracts longer than calyx ; calyx appressed-hispid, lobes linear-lanceo- 

 late; corolla deep blue, .01 broad, tube shorter than calyx; nutlets ** — 

 June — Amanus. {A. megacarpa, Al})^. DC. var. ShattucJcia, Post. 

 Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. vol. XXIV. p. 436). 



4. A. tinctoria, L. 21 .2 to .4, velvety, intermixed with stri- 

 gose bristles, grey or canescent, branching from base. Leaves oblong 

 to oblanceolate, obtuse, .01 to .03 long, dilated and half clasping at 

 base. Racemes at length elongated ; bracts longer than the enlarged, 

 fruiting calyces; corolla-tube a little longer than calyx, limb .003 

 broad; nutlets .003 broad, areola somewhat stipitate — Spring — Sands 

 along coast. 



1 1 Flowers yellow. 



X Nutlets little curved. Basilar sinus Irroad, horizontal. 



5. A. hirsutis§iina, Alph. DC. .15 to .2, viscid-pubescent 

 and hispid, canescent, many-stemmed. Leaves linear-lanceolate, acute. 

 Bracts longer than calyx; fruiting calyx enlarged, lobes lanceolate, 

 tapering ; corolla sweet smelling, tube a little longer than calyx, limb 

 broad ; nutlets large, with keeled, somewhat deflexed beak — Spring — 

 Aint^b, and eastward and northward. 



6. A. Orientalis, L. If Libbeid. .4 to .5, glandular-pubescent^ 

 with intermixture of bristles tubercled at base ; stems stout, ascending. 

 Leaves oblong to oblong-lanceolate, the lower often .1 long, petioled, 

 the upper half -clasping, all mm^e or less repand or wavy margined. 

 Bracts rounded or cordate at base, ovate, twice as long as calyx ; calyx- 

 lobes lanceolate, enlarging somewhat in fruit, at length deflexed ; co- 

 rolla-tube twice as long as calyx, limb .003 to .005 broad; nutlets 

 pitted, .002 broad, with somewhat recurved beak — Spring — Sub- 

 alpine and alpine Lebanon and Hermon, and Coelesyria; Sinai; Jordan 

 Valley (Tristram). 



Var. integrifolia, Post. Leaves entire, not wavy-margined. 

 Corolla .016 long, .008 broad. Nutlets .003 broad — El-Kufr, at foot 

 of Jebel Quleb (Haur^n). 



X X Nutlets curved; basilar sinus narrow; beak deflexed. 



7. A. Kotscbyana, DC. If (S) .3, asperulous-canescent, inter- 

 mixed with short bristles; stems ascending, bifid or sparingly branch- 

 ed. Leaves obtuse, the lower oblong-spathulate, long-tapering at base, 

 the upper half clasping. Bracts much longer than calyx, linear, obtuse; 

 calyx-lobes lanceolate, acuminate ; corolla-tube rusty-red, nearly twice 

 as long as calyx, limb .002 broad; nutlets large, areola substipitate — 

 Spring — Hermon ; Northern Syria, and northward. 



8. A. Oalilaea, Boiss. 2^ .3 to .4, short-velvety with intermix- 

 ture of spreading hairs, especially at upper part of plant ; stems ascend- 

 ing-procumbent. Leaves oblong-lanceolate to oblong and ovate. 

 Bracts much longer than calyx, often .025 long, oblong to ovate, cordate 

 at base; calyx-lobes lanceolate, .01 to .014 long, enlarged in fruit, not 

 connivent; corolla-tube little longer than calyx, limb .004 broad; nut- 

 lets .005 broad, areola near base — Spring — Waste fields; Nazareth to 

 Tiberias. 



