830 Labiatae. 
Local name: frisiyin (Forsk., Delile). 
Also known from Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Tripolitania, Spain, 
Italy, Arabia Petraea, Palestine and Syria. 
1164, (2.) Marrubium vulgare L. Spec. Plant. I (1753), p. 816. 
— Boiss. Flor. Or. IV, p. 703. — Rehbch. Ic. XVII, tab. 23 fig. 1. — 
Aschers.-Schweinf. Ill. Flor. d@’Eg., Supplem. p. 770. — Aschers.- 
Schweinf. Primit. Flor. Marmaric., p. 662 no. 246. — A perennial 
plant. 40—60 cm high, or sometimes somewhat more; stems stout, 
white-woolly, ascending, simple or spraringly branched. Leaves 
crenate, soft-villous, greyish above, whitish below, orbicular to ovate- 
orbicular, 10—30 cm long, the lower petioled, often cordate. Whorls 
dense, globular, distant, rather shorter than the cuneate-oblong, floral 
leaves; bracts subulate, hooked at the apex; calyx-teeth 10, spreading, 
hooked at the apex, the alternate ones shorter, the longest one third 
as long as the 4 mm long tube; corolla white, with minute limb. — 
Flow. March to April. 
M. ma. Recently introduced; Alexandria-West and -East; Abukir. 
Also known from Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Europe, Caucasia, Asia 
Minor, Syria, Palestine, Mesopotamia and Persia. 
475, (12.) Stachys Linn. 
Calyx-tube funnel-shaped, 5—10-ribbed; teeth 5, subequal. 
Corolla-tube included or exserted; limb bilabiate; upper lip ascending, 
oblong, concave; lower deflexed, 3-lobed. Stamens 4, didynamous, 
arcuate; lowest pair the longest; anther-cells 2, parallel or divaricate. 
Disk usually equal. Style bifid at the apex. Nutlets ovoid or 
oblong, obtuse. — Annual or perennial herbs or low shrubs. Leaves 
sessile or petioled, entire or toothed. Whorls axillary or crowded 
into terminal racemose panicles. Flowers small or medium-sized, 
various in colour. 
Species about 200, cosmopolitan, concentrated in the Temperate regions 
of both hemispheres. 
1165. Stachys aegyptiaca Pers. Syn. II (1807), p. 124. — 
Aschers.-Schweinf. Ill. Flor. d’Eg., p. 122 no. 828. — Sickenberg. 
Contrib. Flor. d’Eg., p. 267. — Stachys affinis Fresen. Mus. Sencken- 
berg. II, p. 91. -— Stachys orientalis Forsk. Flor. aeg.-arab., p. 68 not 
of Linn. — Stac hys palaestina Vahl Symb. II, p. 64 not of Linn, — 
Stachys pauciflora Benth. Lab., p.560. — A perennial plant, 20—60 em 
high, or sometimes somewhat more, grey-woolly, much branched; 
branches slender, flexuous. Leaves subpetioled, narrowed at the base, 
oblong to oblong-linear, 1—3,5 cm long, obtuse, reticulate, muticous. 
