580 SCROPHULAIIIACE^. (PIGWORT FAMILY.) 



and those of sterile branches oblong, .04 to .07 long, .01 to .02 broad, 

 short petiolcd, coarsely round-lobed and crenate, obtuse ; stem-leaves 

 sessile, the lower ovate, .04 to .07 long, .02 to .04 broad, decurrent, the 

 upper cordate-ovate, acuminate, clasping at base, crenate-serrate. 

 Flowers .04 to .05 broad, solitary, sessile, forming interrupted or rather 

 dense spikes ; bracts cordate-ovate, acuminate, about as long as calyx ; 

 calyx .01 to .014 long, densely woolly, split nearly to base into 

 lanceolate lobes ; coroUa yellow, glabrous and sparingly glandular- 

 punctate without ; filaments purple-woolly ; anthers reniform ; cap- 

 sule larger than a pea, spherical, tomentellous, half as long as calyx 

 — July and xVugust — In the valley between M-K^s and Ard-el- 

 Hammeh. 



34. V. Portcri, Post. (Plantse Postian. II. 18). If .6 to .8, 

 stellate-hairy below, beset icith stijntate glands above ; root woody, 

 cylindrical ; stems numerous, tall, i>anicled almost from base. Leaves 

 obtuse, the radical linear-spathulate, crenate, tapering into a long 

 petiole, the cauline few, oblong, sessile. Bracts minute, triangular ; 

 flowers solitary, on ascending peduncles, 5-6-times as long as calyx ; 

 calyx .0025 long, cleft to base ; corolla .008 broad, yellow ; w^ool of 

 filaments purple ; capsule oblong-ovate, mucronate, .008 long, twice 

 as long as calyx — July — Between 'Asal-el-Ward and Deir-'Atiyeh 

 (Antilebanon Plateau). 



35. V. Berytlieum, Boiss. (2) .3 to .6, green, hirtellous-gland- 

 ular, with oblong, tuberous root, racemed or panicled above. Root- 

 leaves rosetted, .1 to .13 long, oblong-spathulate, pinnatisect-lyraie, 

 lower segments small, ovate, terminal ovate or oblong, irregularly sinuate- 

 lobecl ; stem-leaves oblong to lanceolate, more or less dentate. Pedicel 3- 

 6 times as long as calyx ; bracts minute, lanceolate-acuminate ; calyx 

 .003 to .004 long, with elliptical labes ; corolla .02 broad ; capsule 

 longer than calyx lobes — Spring — Hedges and roadsides, common 

 along Phoenician coast ; lower Lebanon. 



36. V. Blanclieanum, Boiss. (D .3 to .6, green, papillose- 

 hispid, somewhat glandular above, with short, nearly cylindrical root, 

 racemed or short-panicled above. Root-leaves rosetted, .08 to .12 long, 

 oVong, with triangular -denticulate lobes; stem -leaves sessile, triang^dar, 

 auricled, acu7ninate, cut-toothed. Pedicel thrice as long as calyx, 

 bracts minute, triangular-acuminate ; calyx .005 to .006 long, Avith 

 rhombic-elliptical, mucronate lobes ; corolla .02 broad ; capsule over- 

 toiqjcd by groroing calyx-lobes — Spring — Hedges and roadsides, 

 Phoenician coast. Perhaps a mere variety of the last. 



37. V. §caposum, Boiss. d) .4 to .6, glabrous, with ovate- 

 oblong, tuberous root, and nearly naked stem, ending in a simple raceme. 

 Root-leaves rosetted, .03 to .05 long, ovate, obtuse, irregularly crenate, 

 short-petioled. Stem-leaves .01 long, linear, someiohat hastate-auricled 

 at base. Pedicels 4-6-times.as long as calyx ; bracts minute, trian- 

 gular-ovate, acuminate ; calyx .003 long, with oblong lobes ; corolla * * 

 capsule .005 long, twice as long as calyx — SjDring — Pine woods ; 

 Cassius and Amanus. 



38. V. chryserium, Schrad. @ Densely yellow-woolly ; stem 

 simple or panicl(;d above. Leaves entire, the lower obovate-lanceo- 

 late, obiuse, taperiuo; l^to a petiole, the upper sessile, cordate-clasping. 



