Malabaila. 709 
D. i. Wady-el-Arish. — D. a. sept. Gebel Umm Khasheyba near 
Suez; Everywhere in the Northern Galala. 
Local name: kalkh. 
Also known from Sinai and Syria. 
400. (23.) Malabaila Tausch. 
Calyx-teeth minute; petals yellow oval, with a filiform inflected 
acumen, emarginate, slightly hairy outside. Filaments longer than the 
petals. Stylopodia convex-conical; surrounded by a slightly waved 
margin. Fruit obcordate-oblong, flatly and dorsally compressed, 
surrounded by a wide somewhat thickened margin, cordate at the apex, 
with the stylopods in the notch, which extends about as high as the 
margin of the fruit, glabrous, wider at base than the pedicel; 
primary ridges delicate, except the winged marginal ones. Vittae 
solitary between the primary ridges, equal, reaching °/, way down 
the fruit, broad, clearly seen from outside; 2 vittae in each com- 
missural face. Carpophore bipartite. Seed flat. — Perennial erect 
tall herbs. Leaves pinnate, with incise-dentate ovate usually acute 
pinnae. Umbels terminal and subterminal, regularly compound, of 
several primary and many secondary rays; involucre of 0, 1 or few 
bracts, and involucels of many linear-acute bracteoles. 
A genus of a few species occurring in Eastern Africa, South-east 
Europe, and Western Asia. 
1005. Malabaila suaveolens Coss. in Bull. Soc. Bot. Franc. XIX 
(1872), p. 82. — Tordylium suaveolens Delile Illustr. Flor. d’Kg., 
tab. 63 fig. 13. — Malabaila pumila Boiss. Flor. Or. I, p. 1058. — 
Barbey Herb. au Levant, tab. VIII. — Sickenberg. Contrib. Flor. d’Eg., 
p- 240. — Aschers.-Schweinf. Ill. Flor. d’Kg., p. 81 no. 478. — Aschers.- 
Schweinf. Primit. Flor. Marmaric., p. 650 no. 139. — A perennial 
herb, puberulous-canescent with a long vertical fleshy root. Leaves 
small triangular in outline bipinnatisect, primary divisions sessile, 
segments minute oblong partite in ovate obtuse limb; umbels shortly 
pedunculate, 5-rayed; fruits orbiculate, glabrous, emarginate; commis- 
sures glabrous with 4 vittae. — Flow. March to April. 
M. ma. Marmarica: Matruqa; Ras-el-Kena’is; Abusir; Mariut; 
Alexandria-West and -East; Mandara; Abukir. — D. a. sept. Nort- 
hern and Southern Galala. 
Local name: shamar-el-gebel; telghidy (Ascherson); ammishy 
(Schweinfurth). 
Also known from Cyrenaica. 
