i528 LABIATiE. (mint FAMILY.) 



Floral leaves deciduous, scaly; whorls G-4-flowered, remote; pedicels 

 nearly as long as calyx; calyx woolly, urceolate, .008 long, .000 broad in 

 jiowt^r, .015 long and broad in fruit, truncate^ lips and teeth nearly obso- 

 lete ; corolla purple, twice as long as calyx or more — Spring — Fields; 

 coast, and mountains to 1000 m., "on both sides of Jordan, to Aintab 

 nnd northward. 



11. §. rec'OgJiita, F. et 31. If 1 to 1.5, stems erect, hispid be- 

 low then glabrescent, leafy, ending in a long, glandular-villous raceme 

 or few-branched panicle. Leaves pale-green, puberulent and at the un- 

 der surface of the nerves papillary-hirsute, wrinkled ; leaflets o-5, cre- 

 nate, the hiteral oblong to elliptical, .03 to .05 long, sometimes with 

 minute leaflets between, the terminal ovate to oblong, .08 to .15 long, 

 cordate or rounded at base ; the upper leaves or 2, smaller, leaflets 

 lanceolate. Floral leaves ovate, small, deciduous; whorls 6-4-flowered, 

 distant; flowers nearly sessile; calyx-lips ovate, the upper minutely 3- 

 dentate, the lower cleft into 2, ovate, acuminate lobes ; corolla pink, 

 .03 long, twice and a half as long as calyx — June — Woods north of 

 Mt. Cassius. 



12. §. fi'ubifolla, Boiss. 71 .5 or more, green, papillose-hispid, 

 viscid; stems procumbent, elongated, simple, at length glabrescent. 

 Leaves petioled, leaflets 3, rarely 5, the terminal larger, ovate-cordate, 

 the lateral .01 to .02 long, oblong, oblique at base, often petiolulate, 

 all obtusely crenate. Floral leaves triangular-lanceolate, acuminate, 

 much shorter than calyx ; whorls 6-4-flowered, racemed; pedicels short- 

 er than calyx, or nearly as long; calyx .015 to .02 long, bilabiate for 

 one fourth of its length, teeth triangular at base subulate-aristate at 

 tip; corolla bluish, twice as long as calyx — April — Lebanon and An- 

 tilebanon, 



Var. £.«3qiialitolia, Post. Lateral leaflets nearly as large as ter- 

 minal. 



13.^ ^, purpuraseeaas, Post. (Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. Vol. 

 XXIV. p. 438). If .5tol; stem glabrous, pur^^lish especially at an- 

 gles above. Leaves long-petioled, petioles hairy at margins and lower 

 surface, leaflets 3, the lateral oblong-ovate, .02 to .03 long, the termi- 

 nal cordate-ovate, .03 to .05 long, all sparingly papillose at lower sur- 

 face, crenate or obtusely dentate ; leaflets of upper leaves lanceolate. 

 Floral leaves ciliate-margined, cordate-ovate, long-acuminate, the loioer 

 much longer than calyx, the upper as long or a little shorter ; pedicels 

 half as long as calyx or shorter ; calyx more or less ijurplish, sparingly 

 papillose, .015 long, bilabiate for a third or a fourth of its length, teeth 

 triangular, acuminate, somewhat prickly; corolla blue, scarcely once 

 and a half as long as calyx — May and June — Kurd-Dagh ; Aintab to 

 Marash, and nortliTvard. 



14. §. liracteata, Russ. 1i .5 to .0 or more, glandular-hirsute, 

 viscid, many-stemmed from a shrubby rootstock; stems ascending, 

 paniculate-branched. Leaves petioled, leaflets crenate, the lateral usu- 

 ally one sometimes two pairs, those of lowest leaves small, round to 

 ovate, of intermediate .02 to .04 long, ovate to oblong, the termina- 

 larger, the upper stem-leaves subtending the branches, oblong in out- 

 line, undivided or more or less irregularly lobed or incisecl-dentate. 

 Floral leaves sessile, persistent, loat- shaped, membranous and 2nn7cish or 

 2'mr2)Ush at lase, herbaceous at tip, acuminate, somewhat recurved, in- 

 cluding the whorls andlonger than the calyx ; whorls 8-6-flowered, remote ; 



