tl4 BALANOPHORACEiE (CYNOMORIUM FAMILY.) 



flower; flowers minute; fruit scarcely .003 long, umbonate with short, 

 ovate, connivent lobes of perigonium — Summer — Coast and lower 

 and middle zones of Lebanon, Antilebanon, and Amanus, to alpine 

 regions. \ 



6, T. maorantlium, Fenzl. 71 .15 to .4, glabrous; stems 

 from a woody root-stock, erect or ascending, paniculate. Leaves linear, 

 acute, dbscurelymany-nerxed. Racemes loose; twigs 1-3-flowered; bracts 

 and bracteoles linear-lanceolate, about as long as flower; perigonium 

 .008 long, cleft for tJiree-fourtJis of the length of its free jportion into 

 linear-loles loithinjiexed margin, and incurved tijy ; stamens nearly as long 

 as lobes; nutlet .005 long, ellipsoid, strongly netted, croicned hy the 

 persistent, ascending, divergent calyx-lobes and ^amens — June — El- 

 Jebel-el-Ahmar (Amanus). 



7. T. brachystegtum, Post. If .1 to .15, glabrous, many- 

 stemmed from neck ; stems decumbent or ascending, flowerless below. 

 Leaves fleshy, linear-triquetrous, .01 long, .001 broad, mucronulate. 

 Flowers minute, with short, 4-angled pedicels; racemes .01 to .03 long 

 in the wpfer axils, or compacted in a terminal cyme, leafless or leafy, 

 ^Z«;2S6 ; bracts and bracteoles lanceolate, keeled, shorter than flowers, and 

 little longer than fruiting pedicels; nutlet .003 long, ellipsoid, with a 

 very short umbo composed of the lobes — August and September — 

 Gaiour Dagh (Amanus). 



2. OSYRl^, L. OsYRis. 



Flowers dioecious or polygamous. Perigonium 3-4-parted, lobes 

 ovate, acute, caducous, tube in staminate flow^ers slender, in pistillate 

 obconical. Disk concave, lining the upper and entire part of peri- 

 gonium, lobes rounded. Stamens 3-4, inserted at margin of disk, 

 filaments short, anthers 3-celled. Ovary fleshy, inferior ; style short ; 

 stigmas 3-4, alternate with lobes of perigonium. Placenta very short, 

 in the minute cavity of the ovary, bearing at its tip 3-4 ovules. Drupe 

 dry, ovoid-globular, crowned by remnants of lobes and disk. Seed 

 filling the drupe, albumen abundant, embryo short, superior, radicle 

 superior — Sliriib<? or trees, with angled branches, the staminate flowers 

 crowded, peuiceiled, the pistillate solitary or few. 



O. alba, L. 5 .5 to .8, evergreen. Leaves elliptical and ob- 

 long to oblong-linear, .01 to .015 long, acute or obtuse, mucronate. 

 Staminate cymes many -flowered, the flowers pedicelled ; pistillate cymes 

 1 -few-flowered, the flowers subsessile ; bracts caducous ; perigonium 3- 

 lobed; drupe red, .008 in diameter, leathery — May to September — 

 Shrubby places; coast to lower and middle mountain zones. 



Order XCIIL BAILAXOPHORACEiE, Rich. 

 (Cynomorium Family). 



Parasitic herhs^ with ^olygamoics or dioecious flowers^ 

 crowded on a club-sliajped sjpadix, icith an imperfect orfew- 

 lohed 'perigonium^ (ours) a single stamen^ a 1-celled ovary 

 containing 1, pendulous ovtde^ the fruit containing seed 

 which fills the cavity^ and a mimite lateral emhryo^ and 

 oleaginous albumen — Ovary inferior or semi-inferior. Frnit 

 indchiscent, nut-like or somewhat drupe-like. 



