Crucianella. 923 
521 (7.) Crucianella Linn. 
Flowers perfect, so.itary or twin, with 3, scarious, green-vittate 
bracts at base, forming imbricated, 2—3 rowed spikes. Calyx-limb 
obsolete. Corolla funnel-shaped, with 4—5 lobes, ending in a caudi- 
form, introflexed appendage. Style bifid; stigmas globular. Meri- 
carps dry, oblong or oblong-linear. — Annual or perennial herbs, 
sometimes shrubby at base, flowers opening at night. 
A small genus of only a few species, widely distributed in the Medi- 
terranean region and Midde Europe. 
A. Annuals. 
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1284. (1.) Crucianella herbacea Flor. aeg.-arab. (1775), p. 30. 
— Boiss. Flor. Or. III, p. 22. — Aschers.-Schweinf. Illustr. Flor. d’Eg., 
p.83 no. 494. — Aschers.-Schweinf. Primit. Flor. Marmar., p. 651 
no. 146. — Sickenberg. Contrib. Flor. V@Eg., p. 142. — Crucianella 
aegyptiaca DC. Prodrom. IV, p. 587. — An annual plant, 30—35 cm 
high or sometimes somewhat more. Lower leaves ovate-oblong, the 
rest linear, revolute. Spikes 3—5 cm long, dense, linear-cylindrical ; 
outer bracts ovate-oblong, round-backed, scarcely keeled, lateral ones 
keeled, linear, shorter; corolla somewhat shorter than the bracts. — 
Flow. March. 
M. ma. Marmarica: Ras-el-Kena’is; Matruqa; Dakalla; Mariut; 
Montaza; Alexandria-West and -Kast. 
Also known from Tunisia and Tripolitania. 
1285. (2.) Crucianella membranacea Boiss. Diagnos. Plant. 
Or., Ser. I fasc. I (1849) p. 27. — Flor. Or. III, p.23. — Aschers.- 
Schweinf. Ill. Flor. dEg., p.83 no. 495. — Aschers.-Schweinf. Ill. 
Flor. d’Eg., Supplem. p. 759. — Aschers. Flor. Sirbon., p. 812 no. 18. 
— Aschers. Flor. Rhinocol., p.797 no. 131. — Sickenberg. Contrib. 
Flor. d’Eg., p. 242. — An erect annual plant, 20—50 cm high or 
sometimes somewhat more, branched from the base, erect. Leaves 
linear, white, acute, very scabrous. Spikes ovate oblong, short, at 
length elongated, 2—5 cm long, loose; bracts lanceolate, very acute, 
keeled, very broadly membranous, the outer ones longer, recurved- 
falcate; corolla-tube somewhat longer than the bracts. — Flow. 
February to March. . 
M. p. El-Gels-Mohamediya; el~Arish, — D.i. Abti Elfein; 
Wady-el-‘Arish. 
Local name: hozzeyl (Ascherson). 
Also known from Arabia Petraea, Palestine and Syria. 
