Rosmarinus. — Marrubium. 829 
1162. Rosmarinus officinalis L. Spec. Plant. I (1753), p. 33. 
— Boiss. Flor. Or. IV, p. 636. — Lam. Illustr. tab. 19. — Aschers.- 
Schweinf. Ill. Flor. d’Eg., p. 122. — Sickenberg. Contrib. Flor. d’EKe., 
p- 267. — A shrubby plant, 1—1,20 cm high or sometimes some- 
what more, branches erect, densely leafy. Leaves persistent, coria- 
ceous, linear, 1—2,5 cm long, revolute-margined, olive-green at 
upper surface, canescent at lower. Flowers sessile, opposite, arranged 
in axillary racemes 2—3 cm long; bracts minute, oblong to ovate, 
caducous; calyx pubescent-canescent: corolla twice and a half as 
long as the calyx. — Flow. February to March. 
M. ma. M. p. N. d. N.f. N. v. O. D. a. sept. D. a. mer. Cultivated 
everywhere in gardens and often subspontaneous. 
Local name: kelil (Forsk.); generally: hasalban. 
Also known from all the other parts of the Mediterranean region. 
474, (11.) Marrubium Tourn. 
Calyx tubular, 5—10-nerved, teeth 5—10, equal, short, sub- 
spinescent. Corolla short, tube naked or annulate within, upper lip 
erect, lower spreading, middle lobe largest. Stamens 4, included; 
anthers glandular, cells diverging. Style-lobes short, obtuse. Nutlets 
obtuse. — Perennial tomentose or woolly herbs. Whorls axillary. 
Flowers small. 
Natives of the temperate and warm regions of the Old World. 
Ax Wslyxeteath, tye, sal + badatok <hayolals sala = S90 M. Alysson, 
iB. Calyx-teeahy from LO.f0 15, ahi os -dequerrol asd slime tee M. vulgare. 
1163. (1.) Marrubium Alysson L. Spec. Plant. I (1753) p. 815. 
— Boiss. Flor. Or. IV, p. 700. — Clus. Hist. Icon. 35. — Aschers.- 
Schweinf. Il. Flor. d’Eg., p. 122 no. 827. — Sickenberg. Contrib. Flor. 
d’Eg., p. 267. — Aschers.-Schweinf. Primit. Flor. Marmaric., p. 667 
no. 145. — Marrubium plicatum Forsk. Flor. aeg.-arab., p. 213. — 
An annual plant, 20—50 cm high, rarely somewhat more. — Stems 
woolly, thick, ascending, low, simple or sparingly branched. Leaves 
grey, petioled, cuneate-fan-shaped, crenate-lobed toward tip, the floral 
ones smaller, deflexed, longer than the whorls. Whorls 10—15- 
flowered, separate, loosely spiked; bracts obsolete; calyx appressed- 
fleecy, teeth spiny, at length stellate-spreading, throat at length 
closed by wool; corolla dark blue, with minute limb. — Flow. 
December to April. 
M. ma. Marmarica: Matruqa; Mariut; Behig; Montaza; Alexandria- 
West and -Hast. — M. p. Rosetta; El-‘Arish, — D. 1. Between 
Alexandria and the Oasis Siwa. — Di. Wady-el-‘Arish. 
