Samolus. — Coris. el. 
1022. Samolus Valerandi L. Spec. Plant. I (1753), p. 243. — 
Boiss. Flor. Or. IV, p. 5. — Rchbch. Ic. XVII, tab. 42 fig. 3. — 
Aschers.-Schweinf. Ill. Flor. d’Eg., p. 102 no. 673. — Sickenberg. 
Contrib. Flor. d’Eg., p. 252. — Aschers.-Schweinf. Primit. Flor. Mar- 
maric., p.658 no. “211, — DC. Prodrom. VII, p. 73. — A glabrous 
erect herb, from a few cm to 30 or 90 cm in height, simple or 
branched. Basilar leaves obovate or elliptical, obtuse, narrowed into a 
petiole; cauline ones obovate or oblanceolate, more shortly petiolate. 
Flowers on slender ascending or spreading pedicels, with a minute 
bract near the middle, in terminal loose racemes. — Flow. January 
to March. 
Locai name: ~arideh; sabtin ’arab (Ascherson); semnia seteyn 
(Roth). 
M. ma. Marmarica; Matruga to Abukir. — M. p. N.d. N. f. 
N. v. O. D. a. sept. Along irrigation ditches. 
One of the most widely diffused Phanerogams. 
411. (4.) Coris Tourn. 
Calyx tubulose-campanulate oblique, limb duplex, the outer one 
dentate, teeth unequal recurved bilabiate; the inner one 5-lobed, 
the lobes alternate with the outer teeth, patule, soon connivent, 
unequal, the two upper-ones larger. Corolla tubulose, hinb 5-lobed, 
bilabiate, lobes emarginate. Stamens 5, inserted on the corolla-tube 
and shortly exerted. Filaments unequal, prspeuoee at the base. 
Capsule globose, 5-valved, 5-spermed. 
A small genus of only two species in Spain and the Western Medi- 
terranean region. 
1023. Coris monspeliensis L. Spec. Plant I (1753), p. 252. — 
Rehbch. Ic. XVI, tab. 76 fig. [V. — Aschers.-Schweinf. Ilustr. Flor. 
d’Eg., p. 163 no. 676. — Sickenberg. Contrib. Flor. d’Eg., p. 253, — 
Stapf Addit. Flor. Marmar., p. 368. — A small shrub, 30—60 cm high 
or sometimes somewhat more. Stems adscendent, branching from the 
base, densely puberulous. Leaves alternate, linear, obtuse, coriaceous, 
pale green, glabrous, reflexed-falcate. Flowers subsessile in a dense 
terminal spike. Calyx membranaceous, puberulous; teeth of the 
outer one 11, linear-subulate, purplish, recurved; of the inner ones 
triangular-ovate, fimbriate; corolla 5—6 mm thick, rose-coloured,. as 
long as the tube. — Flow. March to April. 
M. ma. Marmarica: Matruqa; Mariut; Alexandria-West and -Hast. 
Also known from Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco, Southern Europe. 
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