SCROPflULARIACE^. (FIGWORT FAMILY.) 591 



twin, apiculate, twice as long as calyx — Summer — Clefts of rocks ; 

 Palestine ; Aleppo, Aintab, and northward. 



13. S. lieteropliylla, Willd. 21 Glabrous, usually glauces- 

 cent ; stems many, ascending, fragile, from a woody root-stock, end- 

 ing in a leafless, pyramidal, many-flowered thyrsus. Leaves some- 

 what fleshy, petioled, ovate, obtuse, cuneate or truncate or subcordateat 

 base, obtusely incised-crenate, undivided or lyrate-pinnatifid or partite, 

 the lateral segments 1-3, much smaller. Cymes loosely 5-9-flowered ; 

 bracteoles scale -like ; pedicels as long as calyx ; calyx-lobes ovate, 

 with a broad, white margin ; scale reniform ; capsule nearly thrice as 

 Ipng as calyx, globular, apiculate, somewhat twin — April to June — 

 Wadi-Milsa and Mt. Hor. 



14. S. xantIioglo§sa, Boiss. If .4 to 1, glabrous-glaucescent; 

 stems erect, rigid, expanding from middle into a long, thyrsoid or much 

 dranched panicle. Leaves thickish, rather fleshy, the lowest obovate- 

 cuneate obtusely crenate, or fan-shaped, incised, the others pinnately 

 cut, with dentate lobes, those of the lower leaves minute, oblong, ob- 

 tuse, of the upper lanceolate to linear, acutely denticulate. Cymes 

 short-peduncled, bifid, branches at length elongated, rigid, loose, many- 

 floiDered; bracts and bracteoles linear, the latter as long as calyx ; 



calyx-lobes round, white margined ; corolla .005 long, thrice as long as 

 ca^ya?, upper lobes round, large, narrowed at base ; scale large, yelloic, 

 often as large as U2:)per corolla-loles, with a crenulate margin ; stamens 

 more or less exserted ; capsule .003 to .004 long, ovate-spherical, 

 mucronate, twice to thrice as long as calyx — Spring and summer — 

 Common to subalpine regions. A variable specie^. 



Yar. genuina, Boiss. Flowers somewhat larger. Upper corol- 

 la-lobes broader. Filaments long exserted. 



Var. dccipieiis, Boiss. Flowers rather smaller. Upper corolla- 

 lobes smaller. Filaments less exserted. 



Var. bispidula, Boiss. Upper part of plant papillose-gland- 

 ular. 



15. S. deserti, Del. % Zeiteh. A to .5, glabrous except the 

 minutely glandular inflorescence ; stems slender, 



sparingly leafy, ending in a panicle or thyrsus. Fig. 267. 



Leaves small, thick, cartilaginous at margin, 

 petioled, ovate to lyrate with oltuse loles, the up- 

 per sessile, pinnatipartite into oblong to linear- 

 spathulate, obtuse, obtusely crenate or dentate 

 lobes. Cymes short-peduncled, bifid, 3-9-flower- 

 ed ; bracts and bracteoles scale-like ; flowers 

 minute ; pedicel shorter than calyx ; calyx-lobes 

 orbicular, narrowly white-margined; corolla Flower and capsule of s. 

 twice as long as calyx, its upper lobes small, deserti, maguified 



round ; anthers nearly included ; scale orbic- 2 diameters, 



ular ; capsule small, twice as long as calyx — Spring — Sinai, at el- 

 BustSn ; Wadi el-'Arabah. 



16. S. Oileadensis, Post. (Journ. Linn. Soc. Lond. Bot. 

 Vol. XXIV. p. 438). "il .5, glabrescent or minutely glandular above, 

 woody at base, with numerous, wand-like stems, ending below their 

 middle in a loose thyrsus. Leaves petioled, the lowest oblong, .01 to 



