Ajuga. 839 
Aschers.-Schweinf. Ill. Flor. d@Eg., p.122 no. 834. — _  Aschers.- 
Schweinf. ll. Flor. d’Eg., Supplem. p.771. — Sickenberg. Contrib. 
Flor. d@’Eg., p. 268. — Aschers.-Schweinf. Primit. Flor. Marmaric., 
p- 662 no. 251. — Aschers. Flor. Rhinocol., p.802 no. 203. — Teu- 
crium Iva L. Spec. Plant. I, p.787. — Moscharia asperifolia Forsk. 
Flor. aeg.-arab., p. XXIV and p.518 (the cleistogamous form). — 
A perennial plant, 20—30 cm high or sometimes somewhat more, 
canescent or villous, branching from the base; branches prostrate 
or ascending, leafy. Leaves all alike, oblong-linear to linear, 2 to 
3 cm long, 3—5 mm broad, revolute-margined, remotely 1—3-toothed 
on both sides or entire. Whorls 2—4-flowered, much shorter than 
the floral leaves, forming a dense raceme; calyx fleecy, teeth lanceolate, 
obtuse, shorter than the tube; corolla purplish-pink or yellow, thrice 
as long as the calyx. — Flow. March to April. 
M. ma. Marmarica: Matruga; Mariut; Montaza; Behig, old 
qarries; Alexandria-West and -Hast; Mandara; Abukir. —- M. p. 
El-Grady. — D. i. Wady-el-‘Arish. 
Local name: jaaide (Schweinfurth). 
Also known from Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Tripolitania, Cyrenaica, 
Western Marmarica, Southern Europe and Arabia Petraea. 
97. Solanaceae. 
Flowers usually hermaphrodite, regular or slightly irregular. 
Calyx 4—5- (rarely 6—7-) toothed or lobed; lobes imbricate or 
valvate. Corolla campanulate, rotate, funnel-shaped or tubular, 
sometimes plicate; lobes 4—5 (rarely 6—7), induplicate-valvate or 
imbricate in bud, patent or more rarely erect. Stamens as many 
as the corolla-lobes, rarely fewer, inserted in the corolla-tube; fila- 
ments short or long; anthers distinct or conniving in a cone, cells 
parallel or diverging, dehiscing by terminal or oblique pores or 
longitudinal slits. Disk annular, entire or lobed or absent. Ovary 
superior, sessile or shortly stipitate, 2—5-celled; style terminal, 
filiform or clavate; stigma terminal, small or slightly expanded or 
bilamellate; ovules numerous, anatropous or amphitropous. Fruit 
an indehiscent berry, or a capsule dehiscing by valves or circum- 
scissile. Seeds numerous, small; albumen fleshy; embryo often 
terete, near the outside of the albumen; cotyledons semiterete, rarely 
wider than the radicle. — Herbs, erect or climbing shrubs, more 
rarely trees, glabrous, pubescent or stellately tomentose, sometimes 
spiny. Leaves alternate, geminate or verticillate, entire or variously 
lobed. Inflorescence cymose, terminal, leaf-opposed or extra-axillary, 
sometimes appearing umbellate, racemose or fasciculate, or reduced 
to one flower. 
