912 Plantaginaceae. 
M. ma. M..p. -N..d..N;.f{. N. v._N. v. mer. O...D. 1, D. i. -Dicaz 
sept. D. a. mer. Everywhere a common plant in waste and sandy 
places. 
Loeal name: uddeyna (Ascherson). 
Everywhere in the Mediterranean region, Middle Europe, Caueasia, 
Persia and Afghanistan. 
var. filiformis (Boiss.) Muschler comb. nov. — Plantago Coro- 
nopus var. simplex Boiss. in Flor. Or. IV, p. 888. — Plantago fili- 
formis C. Koch in Linnaea XXI, p. 709. — Leaves narrow linear 
entire or paucidentate; spikes abbreviate. — Flow. March to April. 
M. ma. Abukir; Alexandria-West and -Hast. — M. p. Rosetta; 
Damietta. 
Also known from Transcaucasia and Persia. 
1266. (13.) Plantago ramosa (Gil.) Aschers. Flor. Brandbg. III 
(1859), p.92. — Aschers.-Schweinf. Ill. Flor. d’Kg., p.124 no. 862, — 
Sickenberg. Contrib. Flor. d’Eg., p. 269. — Plantago arenaria Wald. and 
Kit. Plant, rar. Hung. I, p.51 tab.51. — Boiss. Flor. Or. IV, p. 892. — 
Rchbch. Ic. XVII, tab. 85. — Plantago Cynops Sm. Prodrom. I, p. 103 
not of S$. — Plantago ramosa Aschers. var. aegyptiaca Boiss. Flor. 
Or., Supplem. p.366. — An annual plant, 30—50 em high, or 
sometimes somewhat more, pubescent; stem erect or diffuse, stiff 
branched. Leaves linear to filiform, 3—6 em long, 1—2 mm broad, 
entire, margin somewhat revolute, base often villulose. Peduncles 
axillary, longer than the leaves, more or less umbelled; spikes ovate, 
1 cm long, dense; bracts papillose-hirtulous at the back, the lowest 
ovate, tapering into a herbaceous cusp longer than the flowers, the 
upper-one spathulate-orbicular, membranous-margined; anterior calyx- 
lobes obliquely ovate, obtuse, posterior lanceolate, acutish, mem- 
branous; corolla-lobes, ovate-lanceolate, acute. — Flow. February 
to March. 
N. d. Damanhur; Ftiia; Er-Rahmaniye; Shirbin; Manstira; Benha- 
el-“Asl; Belbés; Merg; Cairo. — 0. Little Oasis; Dakhel; Kharge. 
— D.i. Salihiya; Ismailia; Tell-el-Kebir; Ramses-Station. 
Local name: habb-el-baraghit. 
Also known from Europe and other parts of the Mediterranean region. 
1267. (14.) Plantago exigua Murr. Comm. Goett. (1778), p. 94 
tab. 5. — Aschers.-Schweinf. Ill. Flor. d’Eg., p.124 no. 862. — Plan- 
tago pumila L. fil., Supplem. p.131. — Boiss. Flor. Or. IV, p. 891. 
— Plantago Rosetana Poir. Dict., Supplem. IV p. 433. — An small 
annual glabrous herb. Stems gracious from a decumbent base erect 
flexuose, branched. Leaves subulate-capillary elongate, somewhat 
