CYNOCRAinSE^. (CYNOCRAMBE FAMILY.) 'JB^ 



eiuts. Cymes dense, cc -flowered ; hmcis scarcely enlarging in fruit; 

 perfect flowers few, sterile, the rest pistillate ; tlic fruiting perigonium 

 scarcely enlarging, tawny, indurated^ with connivent lobes — March to 

 May — Walls and shady rocks; coast and coast-ranges. 



4, P. alsinefolia, Del. Lhzelq. Wudein-el-Fdr. ,2 to .4, 

 puberulent; stems filiform, flaccid, diffuse. Leaves .003 to .01 long, 

 roimded at base, ovate. Cymes axillary, Z-jioioered, tile loicer ferfeet, 

 sterile ivith a small lanceolate h'act, the other two pistillate "^vith thj'ee 

 cordate-ovat£, menibranous bracts, .003 long in fruit: perigonium growing 

 little in fruit, with connivent lobes —March to May — Rocky and 

 shady places in the mountains of the interior from Aleppo, Palmyra 

 and Damascus to Hebron and et-Tih, and southward to Sinai and 

 Egypt, and eastward. 



9. FORSK.4HLGA, L. Foeskahlea. Lu^eiq. 



Flowers raoncecious, enclosed in an involucre of 4-G leaves Avhich are 

 fleecy on their inner surface, the oitter more numerous, staminate, the 

 inner pistillate; more rarely the pistillate alone in 2-leavcd involucres. 

 Stcuninaie flowers : perigonium tubular below, dilated above, l-lii:>ped, 

 somewhat 3-toothed; stamen 1. Pistillate flowers : perigonium 0; ovary 

 elliptical, fleecy, tapering into a filiform, hispid stigma; akenc straight, 

 fleecy, compressed, albumen little — Perennial herl)s or shrubs, with 

 alternate leaves, and free, lateral stipules. 



F, tciiaeiisima, L. If Lizzdq. Llzzciq. .1 to .G, appressed 

 woolly, and beset with hooked, stinging hairs; stems simple or branch- 

 ing. Leaves ovate-orbicular to rhombic-ovate, .01 to .02 long, short- 

 petioled, cuneate at base, coarse-toothed toward apex, green at upper 

 surface and white-woolly at lower. Involucres axillary, globular- 

 turbinate, nearly sessile, 4-1 in a cluster, some with 4-5, lanceolate, 

 acute, silky-hispid involucre-leaves, others with 2 — Mavch — Around 

 Dead Sea, and southward to Sinai and Egypt. 



• Orper XCVL CYIVOCRAMBEiE. Xees. 



(Cynocrambb Family). 



Flaccid^ jprostrate hei'ljs^ growing in crevices of rod's 

 and vjalls, loith monoecioics floioers^ and a fruit somewhat 

 fleshy in the recent state ^ becoming a dry ^indehi scent nutlet 

 — Staminate flowers : stamens 8-20 or fewer, inserted at 

 bottom of perigonium. Pistillate floioers : perigonium tubn- 

 lar-fannel-sliaped, adherent to the ovary, the limb chil>urn- 

 shaped, 4:-2-lobed, soon caducous. Ovary 1-celled, bulging 

 outward, nearly globular; style linear-club-shaped, lateral 

 on account of the inflated ovary, almost basilar, papillose 

 from middle ; ovule 1, basilar, campylotropous ; seed globular, 

 testa thin, embryo horseshoe-shape, vertical in axis of fari- 

 naceous albumen. 



CYNOCRAMBE, Diosc, (Theligonum, L.). Cynockambe. 



Staminate floicers : lobes of perigonium valvate in bud, at length 

 revolute ; filamenta capillary, anthers linear, bilocular, versatile. Pistil- 



