854 Solanaceae. 
small; lower peduncles often twice to thrice as long as the calyx; 
calyx-teeth very short. — Flow. March to April. 
D. i. Wady-el-Arish. — D. a. sept. Suez; Galala. 
Local name: beng. 
Also known from Arabia Petraea. 
1199. (3.) Hyoscyamus pusillus L. Spec. Plant. I (1753), p. 258. 
— Aschers.-Schweinf. Ill. Flor. d’Eg., p.113 no. 766. — Sickenbere. 
Contrib. Flor. d’Eg., p. 233. — Boiss. Flor. Or. IV, p. 294. — Jaub. 
and Spach Ilustr. Plant. Or., tab.414. — Hyoscyamus micranthus 
Ledeb. ex Don. Syst. IV, p.472. — Hyoscyamus pungens Griseb. 
Spicil. flor. Rum. H, p.52. — Dun. in DC. Prodrom. XUI, fas. I 
p.554. — An annual plant, 5—30 cm high, or sometimes some- 
what more, crisp papillose-pubescent; stem erect, simple or branching 
from the neck. Leaves oblong to oblong-lanceolate, acute, entire, 
sinuate-repand to pinnatifid anp pinnatipartite. Corolla 1,5—2 em 
long, yellow with purplish throat, included tube, and oblique limb 
with nearly equal lobes; fruiting calyx 1.5 cm long, 6 mm broad, 
with triangular, prickly-pointed teeth, about one-fourth as long as 
the tube. — Flow. March to April. 
M. p. Qatiya to el-‘Arish. — N.d. Damanhur. — D.i. Wady- 
el-“Arish; Kantara. 
Local name: sekran. 
Also known from Arabia Petraea and Palestine. 
1200. (4.) Hyoscyamus Boveanus (Dun.) Aschers.-Schweinf. 
Illustr. Flor. d’Eg. (1887), p.113 no. 765. — Sickenberg. Contrib. 
Flor. d’Eg., p. 263. — Scopolia Boveana Dun. in DC. Prodrom. XII, 
p.579. — Scopolia Datora Dun.in DC. Prodrom. XII, p. 580. — 
A perennial plant, 30—50 cm high or sometimes somewhat more; 
stems erect, viscid, striate, often branching from the base. Leaves 
long-petioled, oblong, attenuate, pubescent-viscid, densely ciliate, 
the lower ones somewhat dentate, tooth acute, the floral ones 
smaller linear-oblong, sessile, or nearly so. Calyx obconical, 5-dentate, 
teeth erect, limb inflat, acute. Corolla twice as long as the calyx, 
infundibuliform; tube recurved, cylindrical in the lower part, then 
grudually widening up ward; lobes 5, unequal; Stamens 5, exserted, 
declinate; filaments capillareous; anthers sagittate. Style filiform, 
incurwed at the tip. Stigma capitate. Seeds numerous, orbicular. 
— Flow. March to April. 
D. a. sept. Wady omm Mumfeyh; Wady Abu-Marwa. 
Also known from other parts of the Mediterranean region. 
