LABIATE. (MINT FAMILY.) 



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4. B. Antilibanotica, Post. (Plantse Postianse, Fasc. II. p. 

 20). 21 .3 to .5, appressed-2m'berule7it with short, stellate wool, intermixed 

 with longer, simple, branched, or stellate, glaiidular hairs ; shrubby at 

 base ; stems numerous, erect, leafy from base. Leaves round-reniform 

 .01 to .02 broad, strongly wrinkled, pannous, the floral becomino- 

 shorter than whorls. Whorls dense, numerous, forming an interrupted 

 raceme or more or less dense spike ; bracts linear, as long as calyx ; ca- 

 lyx strongly ribbed and grooved, teeth triangular-ovate, spiny-mucro- 

 nulate, recurved, one-fifth as long as tube, the alternate ones smaller ; 

 corolla pale pink, tube short-exserted, hood quadrifid — Summer — 

 Valleys of northern Antilebanon to its alpine summits. 

 * * Calyx-limh 5-toothed. Bracts not 



5, B. nigra, L. 2t .5 to .8, hirsute or giabrescent. Leaves 

 petioled, ovate, .02 to .05 long, coarse-dentate, all but the uppermost 

 longer than whorls. Whorls commencing low down, distant, some- 

 what peduncled ; bracts linear-subulate, one-half to two-thirds as long 

 as calyx ; calyx strongly ribbed and grooved, teeth straight, nearly 

 equal, triangular, one-fifth as long as tube, tapering into a weak 

 prickle; corolla pink, tube exserted — May to July — Roadsides; com- 

 mon. 



25. OTOSTECJIA, Bth. Otostegia. 

 Calj^x-tube cylindrical, 10-nerved, limb membranous, dilated, 2- 

 lipped, the upper lip narrower and smaller. Corolla vvdth included 

 tube having a hairy ring within, liood erect, very hirsute, lower lip tri- 

 fid, the middle lobe retuse. Stamens ascending, the anthers in pairs 

 under the hood, with divergent cells. Style bifid. Nutlets obtuse — 

 Shrubs, (ours) not spiny, others spiny owiog to the persistent and 

 growing bracts. 



1. O. ScMmperi, Bth. ^ Ghasseh. .3 to .5: 



ed, stiff, minutely velvety. Leaves densely woolly, 



branches elongat- 

 short-petioled, o- 

 the floral shorter 



vate, .01 long, crenate, wrinkled at under surface, 

 than whorls. Whorls 2-4-flowered ; bracts few, subulate, short ; calyx 

 tomentellous, limb oblique, reticulated, obsoletely 10-crenulate, the 

 lower limb .007 long, twice as long as upper, nearly as long as tube — 

 Spring — Wadi Zuweirah and southward to Sinai. 



2. O. iiioluccoide§, 



Vahl. 5 -3 to .5; branches 

 herbaceous, hirtulous. Leaves 

 rather long-petioled, short- 

 cuneate or truncate at base, 

 ovate, .01 to .04 long, hirtu- 

 lous, canescent at under sur- 

 face. Cymes axillary, few- 

 flowered, somewhat pedun- 

 cled ; bracts setaceous, very 

 short; calyx appressed-hairy, 

 limb reticulate, loAver lip 

 broad, rhomboid-ovate, .01 

 long, obsoletely 5-7-angled- 

 dentate, the upper minute, o- 

 vate, entire, acute — Spring — 

 Sinai. 



Fig. 808. 



Whorl from middle of stem of 

 Otostegia moluccoides. 



