654: LABIATE. (MINT FAMILY.) 



or longer. "Whorls 6-floTvered, distinct, spiked ; bracts subulate-spiny, 

 shorter than calyx-tube ; calyx-tube obconical, liml hroad, memh^anous, 

 obsoletely 'pentagonal, 5-mucronate, .03 Iroad in fruit; corolla white, 

 shorter than calyx — June and July — Fields and roadsides; coast, 

 mountains to subalpine regions, and interior plains; Jordan Valley. 



2. M. spiiio§a, L. .5 to 1 or more, glabrescent; stem 

 stout, simple or sparingly branched below. Leaves petioled, round or 

 round-ovate, .02 to .06 in diameter, truncate, cordate, or cuneate at 

 base, deephj incised-ldbed and coarse-serrate, the floral longer than Avhorls, 

 "Whorls 6-10-flowered; bracts subulate, spiny, shorter than calyx-tube; 

 calyx-tube obconical, limb coriaceous, Mlabiate, oUique, the U2jper lix^ 

 erect, lanceolate, spiny -tipj)^'ii i^i^ loioer Tialf-round-pentagonal, beset with 

 7, slender pricTcles, the alternate ones shorter ; corolla white, limb longer 

 than calyx-tube — May to July — Coast and lower zone of Lebanon. 



24. BALLiOTA, L. Fetid Horehound. 



Calyx funnel-shaped or obconical, with 10-nerved tube, generally 

 grooved, and 5-19 teeth. Corolla-tube included or slightly exserted, 

 hairy-ringed within, the upper lip erect, oblong, the lower spreading, 

 3-lobed, with middle lobe retuse. Stamens 4, ascending under galea, 

 with exserted anthers approximated in pairs, and separate, diverging 

 cells. Style bifid. Nutlets obtuse — Perennial herbs, sometimes shrubby 

 at base. 



* Galyx-Umb 10- ^-toothed or -crenate. Bracts not spiny. 

 t Calyx-limb menibranous-expended, short crenate or dentate. 



1. B. I>ainascena, Boiss. 11 Asaghdn. .3 to .4, stems numer- 

 ous, erect, flexuous, densely white, appressed-cocoony . Leaves few, or- 

 bicular, .01 to .015 broad, short petioled, grey- woolly, crisp, wrinkled, 

 crenate. Whorls 2-3, quite remote, many-flowered, «s ?ar^e as a small 

 walnut ; bracts oblono-spathulate ; caljx white-tcoolly, limb .005 to .007 

 bi'oad, icith 10-12, spinulose, crenae at margin — April to June — Sali- 

 hiyah near Damascus. 



2. B. undulata, Fresen. If -3 to .6, stems numerous, glandu- 

 lar and hirsute. Leaves villous on both sides, orbicular, .015 to .03 

 broad, crisp, wrinkled, crenate. Whorls numerous, many-flowered, 

 distinct; bracts linear-spathulate ; calyx glandular-pubescent, limb .008 

 to .013 broad, with undulate, rmiticous, obsoletely crenate margin — April 

 to June — Common from Lebanon, Antilebanou, Damascus and Hauran, 

 southward to Et-Tih and Sinai. 



t.t Calyx-limb short, cleft nearly to base into 10, unequal teeth. Stems 



brittle. 



3. B. saxatili§, Sieb. '^. .3 to .6; stems numerous, brittle, as- 

 cending, naked at base, hirtulous. Leaves hirtulous, canescent at 

 lower, grey at upper face, petioled, wrinkled, crenulate, cordate-ovate^ 

 .01 to .04 long, the floral about as long as calyces. 'V^horls few-Jlower- 

 ed, loose, flowers short-peduncled ; bracts subulate, one-third as long as 

 calyx ; calyx-tube strongly ribbed and grooved, teeth triangular, spiny- 

 mucronate, somewhat recurved, onefourth as long as tube, the alter- 

 nat(i ones smaller ; corolla pale pink, with somewhat exserted tube, 

 and bifid hood — Summer and autumn — Rocks ; lower mountains to 

 subalpine and alpine regions ; common. 



