LABIATE, (mint family.) 



G63 



9. T. Auraniticuin, Post. 

 (Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. XXIV, 

 p. 440). 71 .3 to .5, growing in 

 clumps, shrubby at base, papillose- 

 puberulent, pale green ; stems flex- 

 uous, paniculate-branched from 

 base. Leaves short-petioled, 

 ovate-oblong, .015 to .025 long, 

 .008 to .015 broad, rounded at 

 base, obtuse, obsoletely crenate- 

 dentate, the floral oblong-lenticu- 

 lar, entire, minute, shorter than 

 cymules. Cymes long-peduncled ; 

 cymules pedicelled, bracts linear; 

 calyx.OOSlong in flower, .006 long 

 and inflated in fruit, strongly 20- 

 ribbed, teeth. hroad-fria?igular, oh- 



FiG. 311. 



Teucrium Auianiticum. 

 (a) Flowering cymes, (&) Fruiting cyme. 



tuse, apiculate, one-fourth as long as 



tube; corolla white, hairy, about 



twice as long as calyx ; stamens included — May — Fields ; Hauran. 



Forms a new section Cymosum, between Scordium and Sjnnularia (Fl. 



Or. IV. p. 814). 



10. T. §pIiio§uiii, L. Low, pubescent; stem erect, decussate- 

 branched almost from base, forming a panicle with spinescent tips. 

 Lower leaves soon dropping, petioled, oblong in outline, pinnatipartite 

 into obtusely 2-3-fid lobes, the upper sessile, smaller, dentate, the 

 uppermost minute, entire, ovate. Whorls remote, 2-4-flo^vered ; bracts 

 changed to stiff S2nnes longer than calyces; pedicels as long as calyx; 

 glandular-hispid, at length deflexed; upper calyx-tooth ovate, out- 

 wardly cancave, the lower 4 subulate ; corolla white, scarcely twice 

 as long as calyx; anthers scarcely exserted — Spring — Fields; Galilee, 

 Aleppo, and northward. 



11. T. peederotoldes, Boiss. et Haussk. 11 Velvety- woolly, 

 viscidulous, grey; neck woody, beset with persistent remains of 

 branches; branches .05 to .07 'long, erect, leafy, ending in an <?i)ai^^- 

 oblong, dense spike .015 to .02 long. Leaves subses&ile, cuneate-oblong, 

 .015 to .02 long, obsoletely crenate, prominently nerved at lower sur- 

 face, obtuse, the upper acutish, forming an involucre to the spike. 

 Bracts oblong-acuminate, longer than flowers; pedicels short; calyx 

 .004 long, hispidulous, teeth rather more than half as long as tube, the 

 upper three oblong, obtuse, the lower two lanceolate, acute ; corolla 

 pinh, hairy, once-and-a-half as long as calyx — June — Fissures of rocks 

 near Aintab. 



12. T. MoiBttoretii, Bth. 2i! Velvety-woolly, brittle; branches 

 numerous, flexuous, tangled, .04 to .25 long, ending in an ovate-ob- 

 long, dense spike. Leaves short-petioled, truncate at base, ovate to 

 oblong, obtusely coarse-crenate. Bracts linear-lanceolate, acute, short- 

 er than caljx ; pedicels about as long as calyx, nodding ; calyx campan- 

 ulate, hispid, teeth about half as long as tube, the upper three ovate, 

 obtuse, the lower two lanceolate, acute ; corolla (dried) reddish, twice 

 as long as calyx — June — Vertical rocks at base of Cassius to Anti- 

 och, Seleucia, Darkish and Edlip, and northward. 



