820 Labiatae. 
p. 649. — Spikes long, cylindrical, in the lower part often interrupted. 
Flowers smaller. Leaves tomentose or lanate often plicate and 
undulate at tho margin. — Flow. March. 
N.d. Damanhur; Ftia; Rosetta; Mansura; Zifta; Meballet-el- 
Kebir; Zaqaziq; Tanta; Qalyub; Cairo. — N. f. Medinet-el-Fayim; 
Sentris; Senhtr; Tamia; Ei-Wady. — N. v. Siut; Luksor; Aswan. 
— 0. Dakhel; Great Oasis. 
Local name: habaqhaq (Delile); habaq (Ascherson, G. Roth.); 
habaq-el-bahr. 
Also known from South Europe. 
1148. (2.) Mentha Pulegium L. Spec. Plant. I (1753), p. 807. 
— Boiss. Flor. Or. IV, p. 545. — Benth. in DC. Prodrom. XII, p.175. 
— Aschers.-Schweinf. Ill. Flor. d’Eg., p. 121 no.819. — A perennial, 
with slender prostrate much-branched pubescent or nearly glabrous 
stems. Leaves small, petioled, ovate, crenate. Flowers in distant 
globose axillary whorls. Calyx 1,5 mm long; upper teeth deltoid, 
lower lanceolate. Corolla-tube shortly exserted; lobes small, oblong. 
— Flow. February to March. 
N. d. Damanhur; Destq; Er-Rahmaniyel; Tanta; Shirbin; Ben- 
déla; Mansura; Zaqaziq; Bebbés; Cairo. — N. f. Medinet-el-Fayim; 
Begig; El-Hammam; Biahmu; Gharag; Senhtr. — N. v. Siut. — O. 
Little Oasis; Farafra; Dakhel; Great Oasis. 
Local name: habaq (Delile); na’na’ (Ascherson); generally: 
Fleyha or Fileyhe. 
Also known from all the other parts of the Mediterranean region. 
468. (5.) Origanum Linn. 
Herbs or undershrubs, with the principal characters of Thymus, 
but of taller growth, and especially differing in inflorescence. The 
flowers are in compact heads, with a bract under each flower at 
least as long as. the calyx, the whole forming terminal corymbs or 
panicles. The calyx is also variable, in our species more regular 
than in Thymus, in some other ones quite as decidedly 2-lipped 
as in that genus, and the lips sometimes entire. 
Besides our common species. the greater number of Origanums are east 
Mediterranean, including the sweet Marjoram of our gardens. 
1149. Orignanum Majorana L. Spex. Plant. I (1753), p. 824. 
— Aschers.-Schweinf. Il. Flor. d’Eg., p. 121. — Rootstock perennial, 
shortly creeping; the annual stems erect, 30—60 cm high, more or 
less hairy. Leaves stalked, ovate or ovate-lanceolate, 3,5 or more 
long, and slightly toothed. Flowers purple or rarely white, in 
globular compact. heads, forming a terminal trichotomous panicle. 
