Linaria. 865 
p. 374. — Ie. Fl. Ishia., tab. 9 fig. 1. — Densely villous; floral leaves 
as in the type; pedicels glabrous or hirsute, less elongate. — Flow. 
March to April. 
N. d. Alexandria; Damietta; Menzale; Benha-el-’Asl; Mehallet- 
el-Kebir; Tanta; Zaqaziq; Qalyaib; Cairo. — N. f. Medinet-el-Fayim; 
Tamia; Fedimin. — O. Little Oasis; Farafra; Dakhel; Great Oasis. 
Also known from Europe, the other parts of the Sahara region, Ma- 
deira and Arabia Petraea. 
1211. (3.) Linaria aegyptiaca (L.) Dum. Cours. Bot. Cult. 
ed. 1 vol. If (1802), p. 92. — Boiss. Flor. Or. IV, p. 369. — Del. 
Illustr. Flor. d’Eg., tab. 32. — Aschers.-Schweinf. Ill. Flor. d’Eg., p.115 
no. 779. — Aschers.-Schweinf. Primit. Flor. Marmaric., p. 661 no. 233. 
— Antirrhinum aegyptiacum L. Spec. Plant. I, p. 851. — Antirrhinum 
spinescens Viv. Flor. Libyc., p. 32 tab. 27 fig. 2. — A perennial herb 
or undershrub, 15—30 em long or sometimes somewhat more, 
pubescent, much branched from the base and above; branches stiff, 
elongated, at length spinescent. Leaves 5 mm to 2 ¢m long, the 
lower ones oblong, obtuse, the upper ones triangular-hastate. Racemes 
leafy; pedicels capillary, longer than the leaves, flexed, at the tip, 
at length spinescent; calyx-lobes lanceolate, acute; corolla 1 cm long; 
seeds glandular-tubercled. — Flow. March to April. 
M. ma. Marmarica: Matruqua; Abusir; Alexandria-West and 
-Hast; Mandara; Abukir. — D.1. Abu-Roash; Pyramids of Zawiyet- 
el-’Aryan; Pyramids of Saqqfra. — D. i. Salihiva; Ismailia. — 
D. a. sept. D. a. mer. Common in all the Wadies, especially in 
shady places. 
Local name: *esheb-ed-dib; doreyshe y (Forsk.); magenniney 
(Wilkinson); rihe (Klunz); gawim (Schweinfurth). 
Also known from Tripolitania, Arabia Petraea and Palestine. 
1212. (4.) Linaria Kneuckeri Bornmueller in Allgem. Botan. 
Zeitschrift (1909), p. 2. — A small plant, 30—40 em high, or some- 
what more, glandulous; stems rigid, adscendent, simple or branched, 
leafy. Leaves densely glandulous-villous, the lower ones small 6 mm 
broad, 8 mm long; the other gradually diminute, the upper-ones 
squamiform, all remote, the lower ones shortly petioled, the upper 
ones subsessile, hastate, the upper ones rotundate at the base; flowers 
axillary, small, half as long as in Linaria aegyptiaca, with the spur 
7 mm long; pedicels short, as long as or somewhat shorther than 
the calyx; calyx small, 2—4 mm long, densely glandulose-viscidulous, 
yellowish-white; spur shorter than the corolla; capsule ovate or sub-" 
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