800 Borraginaceae. 
M. ma. Alexandria. (Delile). 
Also known from Algeria, Tunisia, Tripolitania, Dalmatia, Greece, 
Palestine, Syria, Asia Minor, Mesopotamia and Persia. 
1121. (4.) Lithospermum callosum Vahl Symb. Bot. I (1790), 
p. 14. — Boiss. Flor. Or. IV, p. 219. — Delile Ilustr. Flor. d’Eg., 
tab.16 fig.2. — Aschers.-Schweinf. Ill. Flor. d’Kg., p.110 no. 743. — 
Aschers. Flor. Sirb., p.812 no. 186. — Aschers.-Schweinf. Primit. 
Flor. Marmaric., p. 660 no. 227. — Aschers. Flor. Rhinocol., p. 801 
no. 186. — A low shrub, 15—20 cm high, or sometimes somewhat 
more, very strigose with appressed, unequal bristles, canescent. 
Leaves 1—2 cm long, subsessile at the base, with callous margins. 
Racemes short, spike-like, loose in fruit; corolla-tube twice and a 
half to thrice as long as the very strigose calyx; throat hirtulous; 
nutlets 1 mm long, ovate-triangular, brownish, glossy, tubercles 1—2 
or 0. — Flow. February to March. 
M. ma. Marmarica: Ras-el-Kena’is; Abukir; Montaza; Mariut; 
Alexandria-West and -Hast; Abukir. — M. p. Rosetta; Damietta; 
Gels-Mohammediya; el-“Arish. — D. 1. Everywhere on bords of the 
desert in deep sandy places. — D. i. Salihiya; Ismailia; Ramses. — 
D. a. sept. Not rare on calcarious ground of the Wadies and plains. 
Local name: halem (Ascherson); halama(Schweinfurth). 
Also known from Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Tripolitania, Arabia 
Petraea, Palestine and Persia. 
454. (14.) Arnebia Forsk. 
Calyx deeply 5-lobed, slightly accrescent; lobes narrow. Corolla- 
tube cylindrical, straight, without scales at the throat; lobes 4, 
patent, orbicular. Stamens inserted about the middle of the corolla- 
tube; filaments very short; anthers oblong, obtuse. Ovary with 
4 distinct lobes inserted on the narrow gynobase; style filiform, 
bifid; stigmas terminal, capitate; ovules erect. Nuts 4, erect, ovoid, 
rugose; cotyledons thick. — Annual or perennial hispid herbs. 
Stem-leaves alternate. Flowers small, yellow or purple, arranged 
in scorpioid bracteate spikes or racemes. 
A small genus of about 12 species, extending from North Africa through 
Western Asia to India. 
A. Fruiting-calyx scareely growing ...... . 1. A. hispidissima. 
B. Fruiting-calyx growing, 
I. Tube crested or tubercled. 
a) Bracts as long as or longer than the calyx 2. A. decumbens. 
b) Bracts shorter than the calyx . . .. . 3. A. linearifolia. 
II. Tube not crested or tubercled, lobes elongated 4, A. tinctoria. 
