Gobularia. 9OL 
glaucescent, branches short. Leaves scattered, oblong-spathulate, 
entire or somewhat 3-toothed at the apex. Heads terminal; involucre 
leaves ovate, imbricated; receptacle conico-cylindrical, not stipitate; 
calyx-lobes thrice as long as the tube, lanceolate-subulate; corolla 
once anda half as long as the calyx; upper lip 0, lower one short- 
trilobed. — Flow. January to April. 
M. ma. Marmarica: Ras-el-Ken#is; Matruqa; Abusir; Alexandria- 
West and -Kast; Mandara; Abukir. — M. p. Rosetta. — D. i. Gebel 
Ekhfén. — D. a. sept. Galala; Suez. 
Local name: hendaqtq (Schimper); ghanntim (Schweinfurth). 
Also known from Western Marmarica and Arabia Petraea. 
104. Acanthaceae. 
Flowers irregular. Calyx more or less deeply divided into 5 
lobes segments or distinct sepals, the upper one often smaller and 
sometimes wanting or the two lowest united into one. Corolla with 
a long or short tube, the limb either two-lipped or of 5 spreading 
lobes, contorted or otherwise imbricate in the bud or expanded into 
a single lower lip. Stamens inserted in the tube, 4 in pairs or 
2 only, the upper ones then reduced to staminodia or entirely 
wanting. Anthers 2-celled or 1-celled by the abortion of the other 
cell. Ovary superior, 2-celled, with 2 or more ovules or rarely a 
single one in each cell. Style simple, usually subulate, with an 
entire or 2-lobed stigma, the lobes not dilated and the upper one 
often reduced to a small tooth. Capsule opening loculicidally in 
two valves, usually elastically recurved and bearing the placentas 
along their centre. Seeds usually flat, attached to hooked processes 
from the dissepiment called retinacula, or the seeds globular and 
resting on cup-shaped dilatations or more papillae, sometimes 
almost inconspicuous. Albumen none. Embryo usually curved. — 
Herbs, shrubs or rarely trees. Leaves opposite, entire or rarely 
toothed, or in a few species lobed. Flowers axillary or terminal, 
in spikes racemes or clusters, more or less bracteate, the primary 
inflorescence centripetal, the secondary sometimes dichotomous and 
centrifugal. Bracteoles rarely wanting and sometimes large and leafy. 
A large Order, diffused over both the New and the Old World, chiefly 
within the tropics. a very few species occurring in more temperate regions, 
either in the northern or the southern hemisphere. 
A. Seeds hygroscopisally hairy ....... -.. .. 1. Blepharis. 
Brisceus WIthouy LGirs s+ cme te ee ks te eek t ee” s 2. Acanthus. 
