Pantago. 907 
M. ma. Marmarica; Ras-el-Kenais; Abusir; Mariut; Alexandria- 
West and -East; Abukir. — M. p. Rosetta; Qatiya; el-‘Arish. 
Local name: museyq (Ascherson). 
Spread through the whole Mediterranean region to Persia, also known 
from Tropical Africa. 
1256. (3.) Plantago cylindrica Forsk. Flor. aeg.-arab. (1775), 
p. 31. — Boiss. Flor. Or. IV, p.882. — Rehbeh. Ic. XVII, tab. 79. 
— Aschers.-Schweinf. Ill. Flor. dEg., p. 123 no. 848. — Sickenberg. 
Contrib. Flor. d’Eg., p. 268. — Aschers. Flor. Rhinocol., p.802 no. 206. 
— Aschers. Flor. Sirbon., p.813 no. 33. — An annual or perennial 
plant. Stemless or short-stemmed, silvery-fleecy. Leaves linear to 
linear-oblong, and oblong-lanceolate, tapering to a petiole, acutish 
with a callous tip, entire, nerves, concealed by fleece. Scapes terete 
shorter than the leaves, spikes often subsessile, oblong to cylin- 
drical, 2-8 cm long; flowers as large as in the last species; bracts 
ovate, obtuse, with a herbaceous, hirsute strip along middle of outer 
surface, and scarious, villous-ciliate margin; calyx-lobes oblong- 
obtuse, herbaceous along the midrib, otherwise scarious, ciliate at 
the margin and the tip; corolla-lobes ovate-lanceolate, acute. — 
Flow. February to April. 
M. ma. Alexandria; Sidi-Gaber; Ramle. — M. p. Qatiya to 
Gels Mohamediye; el-‘Arish, — D.1. Es-Sabrigat; Beni-Selama; 
Abu-Roash; Pyramids of Giza; Pyramids of Zawiyet-el-Aryan; 
Pyramids of Saqqara) — D. i. Sialihiya; Ismailia; Nefish. —— 
D. a. sept. Moqattam; Gebel ahmar; Great Petrified Forest; Helwan; 
common in the sandy desert. 
Local name: berkhemy (Schimper); yenem (Ascherson). 
Also known from Arabia Petraea and Palestine. 
1257. (4.) Plantago amplexicaulis Cavan. Icon. Plant. Il (1793), 
p. 22, tab. 125. — Boiss. Flor. Or. IV, p. 883. — Aschers.-Schweint. 
Ill. Flor. @’Eg., p. 123 no. 849. — Aschers. Flor. Sirbon., p. 813 no. 
33. — Plantago lagopoides Desf. Flor. Atlant. I, p.155, tab. 39. — 
Plantago Bauphula Edgew. in Hook. Journ. of Bot. I, p. 285. — 
Plantago salina Decsne. in DC. Prodrom. XIII, p. 720. — An annual 
small plant. More or less hairy, stemless or stems 5—15 cm high 
or sometimes somewhat more. Leaves lanceolate to linear-lanceolate, 
5-nerved, entire, tapering to a clasping petiole. Peduncles axillary, 
longer or shorter than the leaves; spikes 1—2 cm long, globular 
to ovate and cylindrical; bracts glabrous, ovate-orbicular, hooded, 
obtuse, midrib green, margin and tip scarious; calyx glabrous, lobes 
round-ovate, the anterior with a green keel, the posterior all scarious; 
corolla-lobes ovate-oblong, acute. — Flow. February to May. 
