Anticharis. — Verbascum. S61 
subulate, inserted near the middle of the peduncle. Calyx 51/, mm 
long, deeply cleft; segments 1 mm broad, linear or oblanceolate, 
acute. Corolla rose-coloured, 8—10 mm long; lobes broad, sub- 
equal. Anthers free, sparingly hairy on the back. Style shorter 
than the corolla; stigma capitate. Capsule 6—61/, mm long, about 
2—11/, times as long as the calyx, narrowly ovoid, acuminate. — 
Flow. March to April. 
D. a. mer. Kenej; Qoseyr. 
Also known from Tropical Africa, Arabia and Western India. 
492. (2.) Verbascum Linn. 
Calyx deeply 5-lobed or -partite, rarely 5-toothed; lobes im- 
bricate. Corolla rotate, rarely concave, with scarcely any tube; 
lobes 5, broad, slightly unequal, the posticous outside. Stamens 5, 
affixed, to the base of the corolla; filaments of the 3 posticous stamens 
or of all bearded; anthers transverse or oblique, 1-celled by con- 
fluence. Style entire, compressed, dilated at the apex. Capsule 
globose, oblong or ovoid or cylindrical, septicidally 2-valved; valves 
usually 2-lobed, with inflexed margins exposing the placentiferous 
column. Seeds many, ovoid or oblong, rugose, wingless; embryo straight. 
— More or less tomentose biennial or perennial herbs, or sometimes 
undershrubs. Leaves alternate, usually soft, entire, crenulate, sinuate- 
dentate or pinnatifid. Flowers in simple or branched terminal spikes 
or racemes; pedicels usually very short, ebracteolate, solitary or 
fascicled. Corolla yellow, fuscous, purple or red, more rarely white. 
Species about 160, chiefly in Europe, North Africa, West and Cen- 
tral Asia. 
A. Wool of the filaments white; capsule cylindrical 1. V. Letourneuxii. 
B. Wool of the filaments yellow. ....... 2. V. sinaiticum. 
C. Wool of the filaments violet . ....... 3. V. sinuatum. 
1206. (1.) Verbascum Letourneuxii Aschers. in Aschers.- 
Schweinf. Ill. Flor. d’Eg. (1887), p.114 no. 74. — Sickenberg. Contrib. 
Flor. d’Eg., p. 263. — Aschers.-Schweinf. Primit. Flor. Marmaric., 
p- 660 no. 231. — Verbascum spinosum Del. Ill. Flor. d’Eg., p. 55 
no. 237 not of Linn. — Verbascum marmaricum Letourneux ap. 
Barbey Herb. au Lev., p. 182. — A many stemmed shrub; stems 
50—60 cm long or sometimes somewhat more, in the lower part 
loosely leafy, in the upper part divaricately branched, often spinescent 
at the tip, fleshy, white-tomentellous; leaves greenish, pubescent- 
tomentellous, the basilar-ones long petiolate variable in size, oblong 
or oblong-lanceolate, narrowed at the base, interrupted pinnatifid, 
