908 Plantaginaceae. 
N. d. Alexandria; Damanhur; Zaqaziq; Tell-el-Kebir. — D. 1. 
Between Alexandria and Siwa. — D. i. Salihiya; Ismailia. — 
D. a. sept. Often in the Wadies. 
Local name: khananet-en-nageh (Wilkinson). 
Also known from Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Tripolitania, Spain, Italy, 
Greece and Arabia Petraea, 
1258. (5.) Plantago Bellardii All. Flor. Pedemon. I (1791), 
p. 82 tab. 85. — Boiss. Flor. Or. 1V, p. 884. — Aschers.-Schweinf. 
Ill. Flor. @Eg., p. 123 no. 850. — Sickenberg. Contrib. Flor. d’Eg., 
p. 268. — Rehbch. Ic. Flor. German., tab. 82. — Sibth. and Smith Flor. 
graec., tab. 146. — Plantago pilosa Pourr. Mém. Acad. Toul. II, p.324. 
— Plantago holostea Lam. Illustr., no. 1667. — A small stemless annual 
plant, all the parts densely villouse. Leaves lanceolate or sometimes 
lanceolate-linear, acute, attenuate at the base, trinerved, entire or 
obsoletely paucidentate; peduncles terete, fleshy, erect, as long as 
the leaves or somewhat longer; spikes dense, ovate-oblong or cylindric, 
villose; bracts herbaceous villose lanceolate obtuse, as long as the 
calyx or rarely somewhat longer; calyx-limbs villose, oblong, the 
outer ones herbaceous, the inner ones acuminate; corolla glabrous, 
lobes oblong-lanceolate, acuminate. Capsule ovate with one-seeded 
cells; seeds ovate. — Flow. March to April. 
M. p. Qatiya. 
Also known from other parts of the Mediterranean region. 
1259. (6.) Plantago ovata Flor. aeg.-arab. (1775), p. 31. — 
Boiss. Flor. Or. IV, p. 885. — Aschers.-Schweinf. Ill. Flor. d’Eg., p. 124 
no. 851. — Aschers. Flor. Rhinocol., p. 803 no. 207. — Aschers.- 
Schweinf. Primit. Flor. Marmaric., p. 663 no. 250. — Sickenberg. 
Contrib. Flor. d’Eg., p. 269. — Plantago decumbens Forsk. Flor. 
aeg.-arab., p. 30. — Aschers.-Schweinf. Ill. Flor. @Eg., p. 124 no. 852. 
— Sickenberg. Contrib. Flor. d’Eg., p. 269. — Boiss. Flor. Or. IV, 
p. 885. — Annual or perennial (Plantago decumbens Forsk.!). — 
Villous-fleecy, stemless. Leaves narrow-linear to lanceolate, entire 
or obsoletely callous-toothed, tapering at base. Scapes as long as 
leaves or shorter; spikes-globular to ovate and oblong 8 mm to 3 em 
long; bracts round ovate, glabrous, obtuse, midrib, herbaceous exten- 
ding to the tip, margin scarious; calyx-lobes ovate, obtuse, scarious, 
glabrous or pubescent. Corolla-lobes ovate or round, mucronulate. 
— Flow. March to April. 
M. ma. Marmarica: Matruqa; Bir-Burdan; Mariut; Alexandria- 
West and -Hast; Mandara; Abukir. — M. p. Rosetta; Damietta; 
Sheyk-Zoyéd. — D. 1. D. i. D. a. sept. Common on stony ground 
and in sandy places. 
