Arnebia. 80L 
1122. (1.) Arnebia hispidissima (Lehm.) DC. Prodrom. X (1846), 
p. 94. — Aschers.-Schweinf. Il. Flor. d’Eg., p. 110 no. 737. — Sicken- 
berg. Contrib. Flor. d’Eg., p. 260. — Wight Icon., tab. 1393. — Boiss. 
Flor. Or. IV, p. 213. —- Clarke in Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. iv. 176. 
Lithospermum hispidissimum, Lehm. Pl. Asper. t. 39. — Toxostigma 
luteum, A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss. i. 86. — Anchusa asperrima, Del. 
i Aegypt. Illustr. 55. — Strobila hispidissima, G. Don, Gen. Syst. iv. 
327, — An annual herb, much branched, with stem, leaves and 
calyx densely clothed with spreading whithe bristly hairs. Root 
slender, fusiform, dyeing purple. Stem-leaves lanceolate, sessile, 
very hispid, 1—2 cm long; lower ones oblanceolate, obtuse narrowed to 
the base. Spikes dense, many-flowered, finally elongated; bracts 
ovate-lanceolate, lower as long as the flowers. Calyx 6 mm long; 
segments linear. Corolla yellow; tube longer than the calyx, hairy; 
limb 5mm in diam. Nuts slightly rugose. — Flow. February to 
March. 
M. ma. Abukir. — D.1. Near Farshat (Schweinfurth). — D. 
a. sept. Serapeum; Bir-Suez; Suez; Wady Dugla; Gebel ahmar. — 
D. a. mer. Kene to Qoseyr. 
Local name: fehna (Schweinf.); attan (Klunzinger, Schweinfurth). 
Also known from Tropical Africa and extending through the Orient to 
North India. 
1123. (2.) Arnebia decumbens Coss. and Kral. in Bull. Soc. 
Bot. Frane. IV (1857), p.402. — Aschers. Flor. Rhinocol., p. 801 
no. 185. — Aschers.-Schweinf. Ill. Flor. d’Eg., Supplem. p. 768. — 
Sickenberg. Contrib. Flor. d’Eg., p. 261. — Lithospermum decumbens 
Vent. Descr. Jard. Cels., tab. 37. — Lithospermum cornutum Ledeb. 
Flor. Altaic. I, p.175. — Ledeb. Icon. I, tab. 25. — Arnebia cornuta 
Fish. and Mey. Index Semin. Hort. Petrop., p. 22. — Boiss. Flor. 
Or. IV, p. 213. — An annual plant, 10—40 cm high, or rarely more, 
hispid with appressed and yellowish spreading hairs; stems usually 
branching from the base. Lower leaves linear-oblong upper-ones 
linear-lanceolate, acute. Fruiting racemes elongated, loose, bracts 
as long as the calyx, or a little longer; base of the fruiting calyx 
indurated, pentagonal, gibbous, crested ‘at angles, lobes linear comivent; 
corolla 1—2 cm long, tube hirsute once to twice as long as the 
calyx; stigma 2—4- cleft, nutlets 1 mm long, unequally tubercled. 
— Flow. March to April. 
M. p. El-Qantara to El-‘Arish, — D.i. Wady-el-’Arish. — 
D. a. sept. Wady Khafira in the Northern Galala. 
Local name: kahali (Sinai Muschler). 
Also known from Algeria, Tunisia, Tripolitania, Arabia, Syria, Mesopo- 
tamia, Persia, Caucasia and Sibiria. 
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