Anchusa. — Nonnea. 797 
el-’As;Tanta; Mehallet-el-Kebir; Qalyib; Cairo. — D. a. sept. Often 
in the mouthes of the Wadies. 
Local name: shubbeyt; dabbin (Forsk.). 
Also known from Tunisia, Cyrenaica, Western Marmarica, Palestine, 
Syria, Mesopotamia and Persia. 
1115. (6.) Anchusa Milleri Willd. Enum. Plant. Hort. Berol. I 
(1809), p.179. — DC. Prodrom. X, p.49. — Aschers.-Schweinf. Ill. 
Flor. @Eg., p.109 no. 728. — Boiss. Flor. Or. IV, p. 159. — An 
annual plant, 30—50 cm high, or sometimes somewhat more, loose- 
hispid, not warty, diffuse or erect, branching from the base. Leaves 
repand, oblong, tapering at both ends, the lower ones petioled. Flowers 
at or above axils, forming loose, leafy racemes; pedicels as long as 
or longer than calyx, straight; calyx-lobes linear, twice as long as 
the nutlets; corolla pinkish-white, tube about twice as long as the 
calyx, limb 2 mm broad, scales exserted, glabrous at the tip; nutlets 
3mm long, 15 mm broad. -— Flow. February to March. 
M. ma. Mariut; Sidi-Gaber; Alexandria-West and -Kast. — D. i. 
D. a. sept. Common in sandy places and often on calcarious ground. 
Local name: kahala (Schweinfurth). 
Also known from Sinai, Syria and Mesopotania. 
451. (11.) Nonnea Medic. 
Calyx 5-cleft. Corolla funnel-shaped or tubular, straight, with 
hairy or fringed squamules near the middle of the tube. Nutlets 
4 free, with a concave base, surrounded by a tumid, often plaited 
ring. — Prostate or ascending herbs with usually lanceolate to ovate 
leaves. Flowers in terminal racemes. 
A small genus of only a few species, widely distributed throughout the 
Mediterranean region. 
1116. Nonnea Vivianii DC. Prodrom. X (1846), p. 31. — 
Boiss. Flor. Or. IV, p. 165. — Coss. in Bull. Soc. Bot. France XI, 
p. 281. — Aschers.-Schweinf. Ill. Flor. d’Eg., p. 109 no. 729. — 
Anchusa ventricosa Viv. Flor. Libyc., p. 10 tab. VI fig. 1. — Annual 
herb, 10—40 cm high, or sometimes somewhat more, asperulous 
with short wool and scattered hairs. Leaves oblong to oblong- 
linear, obtuse, the basilar ones tapering at the base. Raceme terminal, 
simple or bifid; calyx cleft for one-fourth its length; corolla white, 
minute; nutlets slightly netted-plaited. — Flow. March to April. 
M. ma. Mariut; Montaza; Alexandria-West and -East. 
Local name: blimish. 
Also known from Tripolitania. 
