LABIATiE. (mint FAMILY.) 



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broad, dotted, sparingly ciliated at base. Head terminal, ovate, dense, 

 .01 to .03 long; bracts ovate- oblong, 5-7-nerved, hirsute, about as long 

 as calyx; lips of calyx about of equal lengtli; corolla white, glandu- 

 lar-dotted, nodding — Summer — Coelesyria and Autilebanon to Pal- 

 myra, Aleppo, Amanus, and northward, and eastward. 



Var. Traclionilicui, Post. (Jour. Linn. Soc. Lond. Bot. 

 XXIV. p. 4o8). Dwarf; stems woody, tortuous. Leaves lenticular- 

 lanceolate. Heads few-flowered; bracts narrow, ovate-oUong, much 

 longer than calyx, nearly hiding the small flowers — May — In fissures 

 of the lava, near Braq (el-Leja). 



* * Cal7/.v terete. Corolla-tube long-exserted. 



5. T. Alfredas, Post. 5 (PL Post. 

 Fasc. in. p. 15). .05 to .1, tufted, matted, 

 stems woody, procumbent, rooting ; flowering 

 branches erect, velvety. Leaves in 4 rows, 

 velvety, linear -subulate, .007 to .01 long, ob- 

 tuse, margins revolute ; floral leaves similar. 

 Head terminal, loose, few-flowered, ovate, 

 scarcely .01 long; calyx reddish green, the 

 upper lip with 3, short teeth, the lower part- 

 ed into 2, long, subulate teeth, all ciliate; co- 

 rolla pale pink or white, tube once and a 

 half as long as calyx — July and August — 

 Matted on surface of rocks, a little to the 

 west of the Rankus Pass of Jebel Qalam'un 

 (Antilebauon). 



Fig. 286. 



(Segment of stem, 



and flowering branches of 



Thymus Alfredse. 



* =^'- * Calyx fattened, 2-edged. Corolla exserted, 



6. T. eapitatiis, L. 5 ZaHar Farisi. ,2 to .4, canescent; 

 branches thick, stiff, at length spinescent. Leaves stiff, linear, trique- 

 trous, .002 to .004 long, dotted, ciliate at base, with clusters of young 

 leaves in axils. Head ovate, dense, .006 to .008 long; bracts ovate 

 and oblong, cucullate, ciliate, densely imbricated, concealing calyx ; up- 

 per lip of calyx with short connivent teeth, the lower longer, with 

 subulate teeth — June to October — Coast and coast range of Palestine 

 and Lebanon ; Gilead. 



6. SATUMEIA, L. Summer Savory. 



Calyx campanulate, either obscurely 10-1 3-nerved and equally 5- 

 toothed, or obscurely bilabiate wdth somewhat unequal teeth. Corol- 

 la-tube included or exserted, naked within, the upper lip erect, flat, 

 entire or retuse, the lower 3-cleft. Stamens 4, connivent under the 

 upper lip, or exserted and somewhat divaricate, anthers with parallel 

 ordivergent cells — Annual herbs or shrubby perennials. 



* Annuals. Galyx-teetli equal, 



1, S. liorteusis, L. % .2 to .5, scabrous with curved hair, 

 much branched from base; branches filiform, erect or spreading. 

 Leaves oblong-linear, .01 to .015 long, tapering to a short petiole. 



