804 Borraginaceae. 
linear, the lower ones tapering to a petiole, margin usually involute, 
sometimes wavy; the floral ones triangular-lanceolate. Spikes panicled, 
at length 20—30 cm long; calyx-lobes linear; corolla red, drying 
blue, 2—2,5 cm long, twice and a half as long as the calyx; nutlets 
3mm long, grey, wrinkled-tubercled, pyramidal-beaked. — Flow. 
March to April. 
M. ma. Marmarica: Ras-el-Kena‘is; Mariut; Montaza; Alexandria- 
West and -East; Abukir. — M. p. Rosetta; Damietta; el-’Arish. 
Local name: kahala (Ascherson); hina-el-ghtl (Ascherson); saq- 
el-hamaim; lisan-el-’asal (Forsk.). 
Also known from Tunisia, Tripolitania, Greece, Cyrenaica, Western 
Marmarica and Arabia Petraea. 
1128. (3.) Echium longifolium Delile Illustr. Flor. d’Eg. (1813), 
p.192 tab. 16 fig.3. — Boiss. Flor. Or. IV, p. 208. — Aschers.- 
Schweinf. Hl. Flor. d’Eg., p.110 no. 733. — Sickenberg. Contrib. Flor. 
d’Eg., p. 260. — An annual herb, 30—60 cm high, or sometimes 
somewhat more, stems herbaceous, pubescent, and hispid with long 
hairs, branching. Leaves pale-green, the basilar ones lingulate, 10 to 
20 cm long, long tapering at the base, the cauline one and floral 
one linear. Spikes terminal, at length elongated and loose; calyx 
white-bristly, lobes linear-lanceolate; corolla funnel-shaped, violet, 
thrice as long as the calyx; stamens little exserted; nutlets tetragonal- 
conical, sparingly tubercled-wrinkled, echinate. — Flow. December 
to March. 
N.d. N.f. N.v. D.1l D.i. D. a. sept. D. a. mer. Extremely 
common on the low sandy hills, often as a weed in fields. 
Local name: kaheyly; hina-ed-dab’ (Klunzinger); kahaly (Wilkin- 
son); dahany (Schweinfurth). 
Also known from Arabia Petraea. 
1129. (4.) Echium Rauwolfii Del. Illustr. Flor. d’Eg. (1813), 
p. 195 tab.19 fig.3. — DC. Prodrom. X, p. 23. — Boiss. Flor. Or. IV, 
p. 208. — Aschers.-Schweinf. Ill. Flor. d’Eg., p.110 no. 734. — 
Sickenberg. Contrib. Flor. d’Kg., p. 260. — Annual, with a slender 
root, which stains purple. Stem erect, much branched, with copious 
spreading bristles. Stem-leaves sessile, linear-oblong, small, with 
copious white bulbous-based bristles; radical leaves oblanceolate, 
obtuse, 8—12 em long, narrowed gradually into a short petiole. 
Spikes finally 9 em or more long; bracts lanceolate, hispid. Calyx 
very hispid, 8—10 mm long; segments lanceolate. Corolla pink, 
half as long again as the calyx. Stamens reaching to the tip of 
the corolla-lobes. Nuts smooth, shining, 21/, em long. — Flow. 
March to April. 
