596 SCROPHULARIACE^. (FIGWORT FAMILY.) 



9. V. stenobotrys, Boiss. et Bl. If .3 to .5, drying Hack; 

 stems crisp-hairy or glabrescent. Leaves sparingly hairy or glabrous, 

 oblong to oltlong -ovate, regularly and acutely incised-serrate, the lowest 

 somewhat petioled, the upper subcordate at base. Racemes .15 long, 

 narrow, pubescent or glabrous ; bracts about as long as pedicels ; 

 calyx-lobes 4, linear, obtuse, with sometimes a fifth, minute lobe ; corol- 

 la flesh-colored, .01 broad ; capsule nerved, obcordate, someichat thick- 

 ened at margin — April to August — Middle mountain region of Leba- 

 non, Cassius, Amauus, and northward. 



Var. Iciocarpa, Boiss. Glabrous throughout — Cassius and 

 Amanus. 



10. V. cespitosa, Boiss. 11 Tufted, matted, stems filiform, 

 tangled, naked, prostrate ; branches .01 to .02 long, densely leafy ; 

 leaves more or less woolly, with revolute margins, narrowly -linear, .007 

 to .01 long. Flowers 1-4, scarcely exserted from tuft ; pedicels as 

 long as woolly calyx, and oblong-linear bracts ; calyx-lobes oblong- 

 linear, unequal ; corolla large, pink ; capsule. 003 long, orbicular-ob- 

 cordate, somewhat broader than long, about as long as calyx — Sum- 

 mer — Alpine Lebanon above Cedars. 



11. T. feombycma, Boiss. et Ky. 11 Dwarf, appressed wliite- 

 silhy, tufted, matted ; stems brittle, naked ; branches short, densely 

 leafy. Leaves .004 long, ovate to oblong -spatJiulate. Flowers 1-5 ter- 

 minal, pedicels shorter than calyx ; bracts small, ovate ; calyx-lobes 

 oblong, obtuse ; corolla red, twice as broad as calyx ; capsule .003 

 long and broad, orbicular, somewhat cuneate at base, apex obtuse, 

 scarcely retuse — June and July — Fissures of rocks: top of Jebel 

 Makmel. 



12. ¥. arven§is, L. .1 to .3, diffusely branched, pubescent. 

 Leaves nearly sessile, ovate with truncate or cordate base, crenate- 

 toothed ; floral sessile, lanceolate, entire. Racemes spike-like ; pedi- 

 cels shorter than calyx and bract ; corolla minute, blue ; calyx-lobes 

 lanceolate ; style as long as sinus ; seeds 15-20 — April to June — 

 Fields ; rather rare along Phoenician coast ; Aintab, and northward. 



13. V. vi§co§a, Boiss. .05 to .1, glandular-jyubescent, drying- 

 llacTc, branching from neck. Leaves nearly sessile, ovate-subcordate, 

 obtusely crenate-toothed ; tJie lower floral oblong, toothed, the uiyper 

 lenticular. HsLcemes hispid ; jDcdicels spreading, longer than calyx and 

 bract; corolla blue, not longer than ovate-elliptical calyx-lobes ; style 

 as long as sinus •, seeds 4 — Spring — Alpine and subalpine Lebanon, 

 and Antilebanon ; rare. 



14. V. acinifoHa, L. .15, glandular-hairy, simple or 

 branching from base and above". Leaves short-petioled, ovate, some- 

 what crenate ; floral lenticular, entire. Racemes loose ; corolla deep- 

 blue ; fruiting pedicels 3-4 times as long as calyx ; capsule flattened, 

 glandular-ciliate, longer than calyx, broader than long ; sttjle as long 

 as sinus ; seeds smooth — Spring — Fields and roadsides ; Aintab to 

 Marash, and northward. 



15. y. coiifcrta, Boiss. .03, glabrous, or crisp-hairy, simple 

 or branching from neck. Leaves minute, oblong, entire, tapering at 

 base, the upper floral as long as pedicels or shorter. Racemes short, 

 few-flowered, corolla =>* * ; fruiting pedicels once to thrice as long as 



