552 BORKAGINE^. (BOKAGE FAMILY.) 



* * Stamens included. 



7. E, areiiarium, Guss. (D hirsute with appressed or 

 spreading hairs; stems ascending or prostrate, simple or branched. 

 Root-leaves oblong-spathulate, obtuse, tapering to a petiole, cauline 

 sessile, somewhat dilated at base, half-clasping, lanceolate. Spikes at 

 length elongated, loose; hracts oblojig-svdcordate; lower flowers often 

 outside of axils ; calyx strigose, almost tincTianged, lobes lanceolate, 

 obtuse; corolla .008 long, tubular-obconical, hirtulous, nearly twice as 

 long as calyx; nutlets acuminate^ acutely tubercled, .002 long — Spring 

 — Sands; Phoenician coast (Tristram). 



§, E. calyciiiuiii, Viv. © .3 to .4, strigulose with appressed 

 and spreading bristles; stems ascending and prostrate, ending in a 

 simple, rarely branched spike. Root-leaves rosetted, oblong to oblong- 

 spathulate, tapering to a petiole ; stem-leaves oblong to linear-lanceo- 

 late, sometimes half-clasping. Lower flowers often out of axils ; calyx 

 .006 long in Jloicer, .01 long in fruit, hispid; corolla .008 long, blue, 

 hirtulous, limb scarcely spreading, nutlets .0015 long, pyramidal, 

 rough-tubercled — Spring — Sandy places ; Beirut ; Aleppo. 



24. OXOISMA, L. Onosma. 



Calyx 5-parted or 5-cleft. Corolla tubular or club-shaped, regular, 

 with naked throat, 5 teeth, and a nectariform, lobuled scale at inner 

 aspect of base. Filaments adnate to middle of tube, more or less free 

 above. Anthers sagittate at base, membranous-tipped, often coherent. 

 Style long, stigma bilobed. Nutlets straight, triquetrous-ovate to ob- 

 long, glossy or tubercled-scrobiculate ; basilar area flat — Herbs or 

 shrubs, often changing color after flowering. 



* Bristles of leaves arising from glabrous tubercles. 

 t Biennials. Nectary hispid, 



1. O, Aleppicuni, Boiss. @ .5 to .6, exceedingly strigose, with 

 spreading, .003 long bristles, and puberulent ; stems stiff, panicled. 

 Leaves oblong-linear to linear-lanceolate, the lower tapering to a pe- 

 tiole. Racemes nodding in flower, erect and loose in fruit, few-flowered ; 

 calyx .02 long in fruit, lobes linear, tapering ; corolla white, one- 

 fourth longer than calyx ; anthers exserted at tip, as long as their fila- 

 ments ; nutlets .007 long, tubercled — April to June — Wilderness of 

 Judea and Gaza to Lebanon, Ccelesyria, Damascus, Antilebanon, Alep- 

 po, Aintab, and northward and eastward. 



0. echioides, L., said by Tristram to be found in Moaband Gilead, 

 is doubtless this species. 



1 1 Perennials. Nectary glabrous. Anthers free or coJierent at base. 

 X Hairs of leaves and stems appressed. 



2. O. sericeuni, Willd. 21 .3 to .5, often yellowish ; branches 

 procumbent, the sterile densely leafy, the fertile sparingly so, ending 

 in a simple or bifid raceme or few-flowered panicle. Lower leaves pe- 

 tioled, obovate-spathulate, upper oblong-lanceolate to lanceolate, ses- 

 sile. Calyx-lobes 5, or by adhesion 4-3, .015 to .02 long in fruit, ob- 

 long-linear, indurated at base, keeled-gibbous ; corolla cream-colored, 



