726 Plumbaginaceae. 
tuberculate with a woody rootstock. Basilar leaves small ovate- 
rhombic obtuse narrowed into a short petiole. Scapes small, flexuous, 
articulate, branched; terminal corymb small; spikelets two-flowered 
elongate in short scorpioideous dense spikes; bracts subcoriaceous, 
narrow-membranaceous, carinate, obtuse, the outer one mucronate, 
the inner one 4-times shorter, oblong, often subrecurved; flower 
showy, somewhat fragrant; calyx-tube glabrous as long the limb, 
limb purple, with 5 linear, bifid aristate lobes. — Flow. December 
to April. 
M. ma. Marmarica: Matruqa; Bir Hamam; Abusir: Mariut; 
Alexandria-West and -East; Abukir. 
Local name: 7éta. 
Also known from Tripolitania. 
413. (2.) Limoniastrum Moench. 
Calyx tubular, membranous, ribless, with a minute, acutely 
5-lobed limb. Corolla funnel-shaped, gamopetalous to throat, with 
a long, slender tube, and obovate lobes. Filaments adnate to throat 
of corolla. Styles connate to the middle, glabrous. Stigmas filiform- 
cylindrical. Utricle membranous, indehiscent. Albumen thin — 
Shrublets with fleshy leaves, and loosely spiked, 3-bracted spikelets, 
closely appressed to side of the rhachis. 
A small genus widely distributed in the Mediterrean region and Arabia. 
1031. Limoniastrum monopetalum Boiss. ap. DC. Prodrom. XII 
(1848), p. 689. — Boiss. Flor. Or. IV, p.874. — Aschers.-Schweinf. 
Ill. Flor. d’Eg., p. 123 no. 845. — Sickenberg. Contrib. Flor. d’'Eg., 
p. 268. — Aschers. Flor. Sirbon., p. 813 no. 32. — Aschers.-Schweint. 
Primit. Flor. Marmaric., p.663 no. 258. — Statice monopetalum L. 
Spec. Plant., p. 396. — Bot. Reg. (1841), tab.54. — <A perennial 
herb. Glaucous, covered with calcareous scales, densely branched, 
and very leafy. Leaves fleshy, flat, oblong to lanceolate-spathulate, 
obtuse, tapering to a petiole sheathing the stem at the base. Spikes 
stiff, short-panicled; rhachis flexuous, jointed, very brittle; spikelets 
2-flowered; lower bract wine-glass-shaped, obliquely truncate, sheath- 
ing the spikelet and rhachis; intermediate bract linear, triquetrous, 
subulate at the tip; innermost longer, leathery, enclosing the flowers; 
calyx-tube long, slender membranous, teeth minute, acute; flower 
fragrant; corolla pink, limb nearly rotate. — Flow. February to March. 
M. ma. Ras-el-Kena’is; Mariut; Alexandria-West and -Kast; 
Mandara. — M. p. Rosetta; Brullus; Damietta; Gels-Mohammediya 
el-Arish; Port Said. — Everywhere in deep sand. 
