792 Borraginaceae. 
p. 103. — An annual herb, 10—15 em high, rarely somewhat more, 
canescent or virescent, more or less branched from the base. Leaves 
linear-spathulate, 1—1,5 cm long. Racemes loose; bracts linear, 
longer than the fruit; pedicels very short; fruiting calyx twice as 
long the as the fruit; nutlets keeled. — Flow. March. 
M. ma. Marmarica: Matruqa; Ras-el-Kena’is; Alexandria-West 
and -Kast; Mandara; Abukir, common. — M. p. Rosetta, in deep 
sandy places. — D. 1. Es-Sabrigat; Kafr Dawud; Beni-Selima; 
Kafr Hakim; Abu-Roash; Pyramids of Giza. — D. i. Gebel-Ekhfén; 
Ismailia; Ramses-Station. — D. a. sept. Not rare in the Wadies on 
calearious ground. 
Also known from Arabia Petraea, Palestine, Syria, Caucasia to Persia 
and Afghanistan. 
1106. (2.) Lappula sinaica (DC.) Aschers. and Schweinf. in 
Aschers.-Schweinf. Ill. Flor. d’Eg. (1887), p.111 no. 746. — Echino- 
spermum sinaicum DC. Prodrom. X, p. 141. — Boiss. Flor. Or. IV, 
p. 251. Echinospermum Kotschyi Boiss. Diagnos. Plant. Orient., 
Ser. I fase. VII p. 29. — A low shrub, 1—2 m high, hispidulous; 
stems slender, flexuous, simple or sparingly branched. Lower leaves 
oblong, tapering to a petiole, the upper oblong, sessile. Racemes 
few-flowered, at length loose; pedicels as long as or longer than 
the fruiting calyx, erect or recurved; calyx-lobes linear, reflexed in 
fruit; corolla minute, blue; nutlets minutely tubercled. — Flow. 
March to April. 
D. a. sept. Wady Tin, very rare; Southern Wady Azhar (Schweinf.). 
Also known from Arabia Petraea, Palestine, Syria, Mesopotamia to Persia. 
447. (7.) Echiochilon Desf. 
Calyx 5-partite; segments lanceolate, 1 very small or obsolete. 
Corolla-tube subcylindrical, curved; throat not closed by scales; 
limb bilabiate, irregular; upper lip erect, obscurely 2-lobed; lower ones 
more spreading, 3-lobed. Stamens 5, included in the corolla-tube; 
filaments very short; anthers oblong. Ovary with 4 lobes attached 
to the conic gynobase; style filiform; stigma 2-lobed. Nuts 4, ovoid. 
Seed straight; cotyledons entire. -— Hispid perennials, with many 
alternate stem-leaves. [lowers small, blue, arranged in leafy 
scorpioid spikes. 
Species 2, the other from Aden. 
1107. Echiochilon fruticosum Desf. Flor. Atlant. 1 (1798), 
p. 167 tab.47. — Boiss. Flor. Or. IV, p. 211. — DC. Prodrom. X, 
p. 27. — Aschers.-Schweinf. Ill. Flor. d’Kg., p.110 no, 736. — Aschers. 
