870 Serophulariaceae.., 
except the minutely glandular inflorescence; stems slender, sparingly 
leafy, ending in a panicle or thyrsus. Leaves small, thick, cartila- 
ginous at the margin, petioled, ovate to lyrate with obtuse lobes, 
the upper sessile, pinnatipartite into oblong to linear-spathulate ob- 
tuse, obtusely crenate or dentate lobes. Cymes short peduncled, 
bifid, 3—9-flowered; bracts and bracteoles scale-like; flowers minute; 
pedicel shorter than the calyx; calyx-lobes orbicular; narrowly white 
margined; corolla twice as long as the calyx, its upper lobes small, 
round; anthers nearly included; scale orbicular; capsule small, twice 
as long as the calyx. — Flow. February to April. 
D. i. Salihiya; El-Tihe — D. a. sept. Common in the sandy 
desert along the Nile alluvium. 
Local name: zeyht (Schweinfurth). 
Also known from Sinai, Palestine and Persia. 
1221. (2.) Serophularia xanthoglossa Boiss. Diagnos. Plant. 
Or., Ser. I fase. XII (1853) p. 38. — Stiefelhagen in Engler’s Bot. 
Jahrb. XLIV (1910), p.473. — Scrophularia aintabensis Boiss. and 
Hausskn. ex Boiss. Flor. Or. [V, p.413. — Scerophularia decipiens 
Boiss. and Kotshy Diagnos. Plant. Or. Ser. I fase. UI p. 156. — 
Scrophularia expansa Reut ex Boiss. Flor. Or. IV, p. 413. — Sero- 
phularia gileadense Post Journ. Linn. Soc. XXIV (18688), p. 438. — 
Scrophularia hispidula Boiss. and Bal. Diagnos. Plant. Or., Ser. II fase. VI 
p. 157. — Scrophularia turcomanica Bornm. and Sint. in exsic. Sint. 
1900 partly. — A perennial, 40 cm to 1 m high, or somewhat more, 
glabrous-glaucescent; stems erect, rigid, expanding from the middle 
into a long, thyrsoid or much branched panicle. Leaves thickish, 
rather fleshy, the lowest obovate-cuneate obtusely crenate, or fan- 
shaped, incised, the others pinnately cut, with dentate lobes, those 
of the lower leaves minute, oblong, obtuse, of the upper one lanceo- 
late to linear, acutely denticulate. Cymes short-peduncled, bifid, 
branches at length elongated, rigid, loose, many-flowered; bracts 
and bracteoles linear, the latter as long as the calyx; calyx-lobes 
round, white margined; corolla 5 mm long, thrice as long as the 
calyx, upper lobes round, large, narrowed at the base; scale large, 
yellow, often as large as the upper corolla-lobes, with a crenulate 
margin; stamens more or less exserted; capsule 3—4 mm long, 
ovate-spherical, mucronate, twice to thrice as long as the calyx. — 
Flow. March to April. 
D. a. sept. Wady Dugla; Wady Hof; Suez (Bornmiiller). 
Also known from Arabia Petraea, Palestine, Syria, Silicia, Mesopotamia 
to Persia. 
