Plantago. 911 
flowered, dense; bracts and calyx-lobes coriaceous, herbaceous, hirsute, 
membranous-margined, carinate; corolla-tube appressed hairy, cap- 
sule 2-celled; ovules monosperm; seeds orate, biconvex. — Flow. 
March to April. : 
M. ma. Marmarica: Matruga; Mariit; Montaza; Alexandria- 
West and -Hast. — D.i. Tell-el-Kebir. — D. a. sept. Wady Khereyze. 
Local name: deqis (Ascherson). 
Only known from Egypt. 
1264. (11.) Plantago crassifolia Forsk. Flor. aeg.-arab. (1775), 
p. 31. — Aschers.-Schweinf. Ill. Flor. d’Eg., p. 124 no. 858. — Sicken- 
berg. Contrib. Flor. d’Kg., p. 269. — Aschers.-Schweinf. Primit. Flor. 
Marmaric, p. 664 no. 265. — Plantago maritima L. Spec. Plant. I, 
p- 165 partly. — Boiss. Flor. Or. IV, p.889. — Sibth and Smith 
Flor. graec. tab. 148. — Rehbch. Ic. XVII, tab. 80 fig. II. — Plan- 
tago maritima Desf. Flor. Atlant. I, p.138. — A perennial plant, 
3—15 cm high, or sometimes somewhat more. Stemless. Leaves 
fleshy, linear, 3-nerved, entire or remotely denticulate, glabrous 
or sparingly papillose, hirsute or fleecy at the sheathing base. 
Scapes appressed-papillose-hairy, usually longer than the leaves; 
spike cylindrical, 2—6 cm long, rather loose; bracts ovate, consave, 
shorter than the calyx, narrow-margined; calyx-lobes obtuse, broad- 
margined, the keel of the posterior lobes green, expanded into a 
narrow, scarious wing; corolla-tube appressed-hirtulous, lobes ovate, 
acute; cells of capsule 2, each with 1 seed. — Flow. March to April. 
M. ma. Marmarica: Ras-el-Kena’is; Abusir; Mariut; Behig; 
Alexandria-West and -East; Mandara; Abukir. — M. p. Rosetta; 
Damietta. 
Local name: deqis. 
Also known from all the other parts of the Mediterranean region and 
Kurope. 
1265. (12.) Plantago Coronopus L. Spec. Plant. [ (1753), p. 166. 
—— Boiss. Flor. Or. IV, p. 888. — Rchbch. Ic. XVII, tab. 79 fig. V to 
VII. — Aschers.-Schweinf. Primit. Flor. Marmar., p. 664 no. 263. Plan- 
tago commutata Guss. Guss., Supplem. I p. 46. — Aschers.-Schweinf. 
Ill. Flor. d’Eg., p. 124 no. 856. — Rootstock short and thick, scar- 
cely branched. Leaves spreading, in a dense tuft, linear or linear- 
lanceolate, or pinnatifid with linear segments, more or less hairy, 
with scarcely prominent ribs. Spikes cylindrical, 2—5 cm long. 
The flowers rather smaller than in Plantago crassifolia Forsk.; the 
sepals broad and ciliate. Ovary with 4 cells, each with a single 
ovule, but it often happens that only 1 or 2 in each capsule attain 
their maturity. — Flow. March to April. 
