LABIATE, (mint FAMILY.) 



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leafy, simple. Leaves sessile, oblong to lanceolate, obtuse, .004 to 

 .007 long, concave and 3-uerved below. Cymes 1-3-flowered, short- 

 peduncled, shorter than axillary leaf, in a contimcous, slender sjnl-e ; 

 calyx-teeth lanceolate, teeth villous ; corolla picrjyJe — Summer — 

 Ehedin (Blanche). 



1 1 Mitlets oUiLse. 



4. M. Oraeca, L. 2X .3 to .C, pubescent or villous; rootstock 

 woody, with slender, ascending, usually simple branches. Leaves ses- 

 sile, ovate to ovate-oblong, .005 to .01 long, the upper lanceolate to 

 linear. Cymes peduncled, 3-7-flowered, one-sided ; calyx-teeth awl- 

 shaped, ascending, throat villous ; corolla jiink, with somewhat exsert- 

 ed tube — May to Julv — Rocks ; coast, and mountains of coast and in- 

 terior to 1300 m. 



Var. laxilfora, Post. Canescent. Cymes loose^ 1-7-flowered — 

 Subalpine Lebanon ; Zahleh. 



Var. deiisiflora, Post. Cymes deme^ short-peduncled — Subal- 

 pine and alpine Lebanon; Zahleh. 



5. j!I. Sinaica, Bth. 5 Suleiseleli. .2 to .4, appressed-canes- 

 cent, much branched, the younger branches erect, thickish, nearly or 

 quite simple. Leaves few, remote, nearly sessile, ovate to oblong, 

 .004 long, with somewhat revolute margins. Whorls sessile, many- 

 flowered, small, remote; calyx .015 to .03 long, scabridulous, with lan- 

 ceolate, straight teeth less than half as long as tube — Early summer 



— El-Ghor ; El-'Arabah, and southward to Sinai. 



* * Anther-cells divergent^ joined at tip ly a punctiform connective.. 



6. M. iiummiilarifolia, Boiss. If .05 to .1, pale green, vil^ 

 Ions, especially above ; stems filiform, brittle, leafy, ascending. Leaves 

 round-ovate to ovate, subcordate, .003 to .006 long, the lower obtuse, 

 the upper acutish. Flowers solitary or twin, short-pedicelled, forming 

 an ovate-oblong, terminal, leafy raceme ; calyx-teeth nearly twice a& long 

 as tube, lanceolate-subulate ; corolla purple, t\d)e a little longer than calyx 



— June to September — Alpine and subalpine summits of Lebanon, 

 and Hermon. 



7. M. L<il>aiiotica, Boiss. If .05 to .25, 

 wooUy-canescent ; stems filiform, brittle, simple, 

 erect. Leaves sessile, orbicular to ovate, obtuse, 

 .005 to .012 long. Cymes short-peduncled, 7-2- 

 Jiowered, remote, loosely racerned, sometimes some- 

 what panicled ; c^\^^x-tQGth one fourth to one fifth 

 as long as tube^ triangular-acuminate ; corolla 

 pink, once and a half to tioice as long as calyx — 

 July to September — Alpine Lebanon and Anti- 

 lebanon. 



8. M. Sliepardi, Post. (Jour. Linu. Soc. 

 Bot. Vol. XXIV. p. 439, under Nepeta). 2f .2 

 to .5, apiDressed-velvety, greyish-white; stems 

 numerous, simple, or branching from woody base, 

 stiff. Leaves rhombic-ovate, tapering to a short 

 petiole, obtuse, .01 to .005 long, entire. Cy- 



FiG. 388. 



Flowering branch, 



and lower leaf of 



Micromeria Libanotic*. 



