Jchium. — Onosma. 805 
M. ma. N.d. N.f. N. v. O. D. 1. D. i. D. a. sept. D. a. mer. 
Everywhere common. 
Local name: kaheyla (Forsk.); hina-el-ghtl; keida (Ascherson). 
Also known from Nubia and Arabia Petraea. 
1130, (5.) Echium setosum Vahl Symb. Bot. II (1791), p. 35. 
— Boiss. Flor. Or. IV, p. 209. — Del. Illustr. Flor. d’Eg., p. 186 
tab. 17 fig. 2, — Aschers.-Schweinf. Ill. Flor. @Eg., p.110 no. 735. 
— Sickenberg. Contrib. Flor. @Eg., p. 260. — Aschers.-Schweinf. 
Primit. Flor. Marmaric., p. 659 no. 225. — Echium spathulatum Viv. 
Flor. Libye., p.8 tab.9 fig.1. — Echium verecundum Viv. Eg. Dec., 
no. 25. — Appressed-stellate-tomentellous, with spreading, tubercled 
hairs intermixed; stems erect or ascending, loosely panicled. Basilar 
leaves 10 cm long, ovate to oblong, or oblong-spathulate, tapering 
to a petiole, feather-veined; cauline ones oblong, half-clasping; 
floral ones oblong-lanceolate, cordate at the base. Spikules peduncled; 
corolla blue, appressed hirtellous 2—3 cm long, trice as long as calyx, 
limb expanded; stamens sometimes little exserted; nutlets 3 mm 
long, rough-tubercled, keeled, bigibbous. — Flow. March. 
M. ma. Marmarica: Matruqa; Mariut; Montaza; Alexandria- 
West and -Hast; Abukir. — D. 1. Abu-Roash, rare. 
Only known from Egypt. 
var. parviflorum Schweinf. and Muschler noy. var. — Flowers 
very small, often only 0,5—1 cm long. 
M. ma. Marinut; Behig; Sidi-Gaber. 
Only known from this locality. 
456. (16.) Onosma Linn. 
Calyx 5-parted or 5-cleft. Corolla tubular or club-shaped, 
regular, with naked throat, 5 teeth and a nectariform lobuled scale 
at the inner aspect of the base. Filaments adnate to the middle 
of the tube, more or less free above. Anthers sagittate at the base, 
membranous tipped, often coherent. Style long, stigma bilobed. 
Nutlets straight, triquetrous-ovate to oblong, glossy or tubercled- 
scrobiculate; basilar area flat. — Herbs or shrubs, often changing 
colour ofter flowering. 
A small genus of only a few species in the Mediterranean region and 
the Orient. 
1131. Onosma frutescens Lam. Illustr. (1791), no. 1837. — 
Boiss. Flor. Or. IV, p. 190. — Onosma echioides Sibth. and Smith 
Flor. graec., tab. 172 not of Linnaeus. — Onosma Tournefortii Griseb. 
