Flora of Syria, Palestine, and Sinai - from the Taurus to Ras Muhammas and from the Mediterranean sea to the Syrian desert (1896) (14598106547)

Identifier: floraofsyriapalest00post (find matches)
Title: Flora of Syria, Palestine, and Sinai : from the Taurus to Ras Muhammas and from the Mediterranean sea to the Syrian desert
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: Post, George Edward, 1838-1909
Subjects: Botany -- Syria Botany -- Palestine Botany -- Egypt Sinai
Publisher: Beirut, Syria : Syrian Protestant college
Contributing Library: Princeton Theological Seminary Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN



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Pod of T. AppoUinea. Raceme of T. AppoUinea. • T. Apollinea, Del. 5 ^Amydnah. .3 to .6, appressed-canescentbranches slender, erect, flexuous. Leaflets 2-5 pairs, oblong, retuse,canescent-silky on both sides. Racemes loose, few-flowered, longerthan leaves ; calyx-lobes triangular-lanceolate, somewhat longer thantube ; pods oblong, somewhat falcate, .04 long, .004 broad, appressedhairy — Spring — Sinai and westward to Egypt. 30. COL.UTEA, L. Colutea. Qasnur. Calyx bell-shaped, 5-toothed, the upper teeth often longer thanthe others. Standard nearly round, spreading, furnished on either sideabove the claw with a fold or protuberance ; wings oblong, falcate;keel obtusely curved. Stamens diadelphous. Ovary 3-oo -ovuled ;style incurved, bearded lengthwise on its upper and inner aspect, hook-ed, its ovate stigma in the bend at its tip among the hairs. Pod stipi-tate, parchment-like, inflated, indehiscent or gaping at apex — Shrubswith showy yellow flowers. 1. C. arbore§ceiis, L. 5 1