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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parasitic on the stem of another plant,with two clusters of flowers, (b) The coiled embryo, (c) The same uncoiling itself ingermination.5. CUSCUTA. Calyx and corolla 5-cleft, the latter often urn-shaped in fruit. 1. IPOMLiEA, L. Morning-Glory. Calyx 5-sepaled. Corolla broad-funnel-shaped, showy, 5-lobed orrepand, 5-plaited. Style 1, stigma capitate, generally 2-lobed. Ovary2-3-4-celled, with 2 seeds in each cell. Capsule (in ours) 2-celled —Twining, glabrous herbs or shrubs. 1. I. littoralis, L. 2^ .3 to .5, trailing on the ground, rootingby under surface of branches. Leaves fleshy, .01 to .03 long, oblong,fiddle-shaped or ihree-lobed, lateral lobes often bifid, terminal oblong-ellip-tical, all obtuse. Peduncles of 1-2 upper axils 1-flowered, shorter thanleaves; sepals elliptical, obtuse, mucronate; corolla .04 long, cream-colored, 4-6 times as long as calyx; lobes of stigma rounded; capsule.014 broad —Autumn — Sands along coast. 558 conyolvulace^. (convolvulus family).Fig. 258.
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a f e d l Fig. 258. (a) Flovveiing branch of an IpomaBa, with leaf, flower, buds, and capsule.(b) Capsule, with three, 2-seeded cells, (c) The same after the valves have fallen, showingone seed in its relations to the cell, (d) The embr\o curved and wrinkled, (e) A cotyledonin germination, with its radicle below. (/) The two cotyledons in germination, with theradicle between them. 2. I. §agittata, Desf. ^. Trailing and twining over grass andshrubs. Lower leaves cordate-suborbicular, the others sagittate, withlinear-lanceolate ti2)S and larlis .01 to .04 long. Peduncles axillary,shorter than leaves, 1-2-flowered, minutelj^ 2-bracted near middle; sep-als elliptical, obtuse, mucronulate; corolla .06 to .07 long, ^:i;<Z., 7-8-times as long as calyx; stigma capitate, retuse; capsules .016 broad —Autumn — Marshes of Alexandretta, and northward. 3, I. palmata, Forsk. 5 Bint-el-BasJia. Bint-el-Uusn. Sitt-el-Husn. Sharq-Faleq. Kuleih. Trailing or climbing to a great heightover trees an

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