labiatie. (mint family.) 

 Fig. 399. 



639 



Whorl of Lallemantia Iberica. 



mucronate, the uppermost obovate-spathulate, all with conical gibU at 

 sinuses ; corolla blue rarely yellowish, tube included, limb small — 

 April and May — Fields ; between Jerusalem and Jericho ; Damascus ; 

 Coelesyria; Antilebanon; Aintab. 



3. 1*. canescen§, L. (D .3, wooUy-canescent ; stems ascending 

 from an indurated base, thick, simple. Lower leaves petioled, crenate, 

 oblong-lanceolate ; floral leaves sessile, linear^ longer than flowers. 

 Whorls 4-6-flowered, loosely spiked ; bracts small^ nearly sessile, 

 cuneate-flabellate, with 2-3 aristate teeth on each side ; calyx tomentel- 

 lous, .015 long, teeth mucronate, the uppermost ovate-oblong; corol- 

 la move than twice as long as calyXy blue, the tube gradually expanded 

 into a throat — Spring — Mountains of Northern Syria. 



16. §CUTEi:.I.AIlIA, L. Skull-Cap. 



Calyx campauulate, bilabiate, lips entire, short, broad, closed in 

 fruit, the upper furnished with a rounded, concave scale at back, deci- 

 duous. Corolla bilabiate, tube long-exserted. Stamens 4, near togeth- 

 er, parallel under the upper lip, curved forward at tip, the anterior 

 pair longer ; anthers ciliate, those of upper stamens 2-celled, of lower 

 1 -celled, the other cell being obsolete. Upper lobe of style shorter. 

 Nutlets nearly globular, often tubercled — Herbs, often shrubby at 

 base. 



* Flowers in a tetragonal 



e or a 



not one-sided raceme. 



1. S. Orientalii, L. 2f .1 to .4, branches numerous, indurated, 

 ascending, short, pubescent to canescent. Leaves petioled, ovate to 

 oblong, .01 to .03 long, incised- dentate, green and glabrous or pubes- 

 cent above, appressed-canescent below. Flowers in an ollong, tetrago- 

 nal, dense spile ; floral leaves membranous, ovate or oblong-ovate, .006 

 to .008 long, entire, hiding the calyces; corolla yellow, sometimes with 

 brownish lower lip — Summer. 



Var. genuina, Boiss. Leaves larger, crenate-dentate — Amauus. 



Var. alpiiia, Boiss. Stems prostrate, often rooting. Leaves 

 more or less canescent. Spikes short, few-flowered — Alpine and sub- 

 alpine regions. 



