914 Plantaginaceae. — Rubiaceae. 
3—6 em long, entire or remotely denticulate. Peduncles from the 
upper axils, about as long as the leaves; spikes ovate-spherical, 
6 mm to 1,3 cm long, glandular-hairy; bracts ovate-lanceolate, acute 
or acuminate; calyx-lobes acuminate, corolla-lobes lanceolate, acute. 
— Flow. January to April. 
M. p. El-‘Arish; Sheykh Djubara; El-Khariba; Sheyk-Zoyed. 
Also known from all the other parts of the Mediterranean region and Persia. 
1271. (18.) Plantago squarrosa Murr. Comm. Goett. (1781), 
p. 38 tab. 3 var. brachystachys Boiss. Flor. Or. [V (1879), p. 893. 
— Aschers.-Schweinf. Ill. Flor. d’Eg., p.125 no. 863. Plantago 
aegyptiaca Jacq. Ic. rar., tab. 28. — An annual plant, 20—30 em high, 
or rarely sometimes somewhat more, papillose-hairy, branching from the 
neck; stems diffused or ascending, usually branching. Leaves some- 
what fleshy, linear to linear-oblong, 2—4 cm long, 3—5 mm broad, 
often recurved. Peduncles axillary, as long as the leaves or shorter; 
3—5 together; spikes pubescent, oblong to cylindrical, 1—2 cm 
long; the lower pair of bracts forming an involucre to the spike, 
sometimes elongated, oblong-lanceolate, recurved, somewhat narrowed 
above the dilated base; the upper one oblong, bluntish, as long as 
the calyx or longer; anterior calyx-lobes oblong-spathulate, somewhat 
oblique, posterior oblong, keeled; corolla-lobes ovate-oblong, acute. 
- Flow. March to April. 
M. ma. Alexandria-West and -Hast. — M. p. Rosetta; Damietta. 
Also known from Arabia Petraea and Palestine. 
Rubiales. 
Herbs, shrubs or trees. Leaves opposite, sometimes whorled: 
blades mainly entire. Flowers perfect, or rarely polygamous, solitary 
or in variously modified cymes. Hypanthium well developped. 
Sepals 3—6 or rarely 10, sometimes very small. Corolla of 3—6 
or rarely 10 partially united petals. Androecium of as many stamens 
as corolla-lobes or twice as many, or rarely fewer. Anthers separate. 
Gynoecium of several united carpels. Ovary 1—10-celled. Styles 
united. Ovules 1-many in each cavity of the ovary. Fruit a capsule, 
a berry or a drupe. 
106. Rubiaceae. 
Flowers usually hermaphrodite, regular and symmetrical, rarely 
irregular or unsymmetrical, sometimes dimorphic. Calyx-tube adnate 
to the ovary; limb various. Corolla inserted on the ovary, various 
in form and aestivation. Stamens usually isomerous with the corolla- 
lobes, inserted at the mouth or throat or on the tube of the corolla; 
