930 Dipsacaceae. 
1293. Cephalaria syriaca (L.) Schrad. Akad. Goett. (1814), 
p. 316. — Boiss. Flor. Or. II, p. 120. — Aschers.-Schweinf. Ill. Flor. 
d’Eg., p. 84 no. 504. — Aschers.-Schweinf. Il]. Flor. d’Eg., Supplem.., 
p. 760. — Aschers. Flor. Rhinoc., p. 797 no. 133. — Sickenberg. 
Contrib. Flor. d’Eg., p. 243. An annual plant, 50 cm to 1,50 m 
high, bristly; stem stiff, trivaricately branched above. Leaves sessile 
or nearly so, the lower ones oblong-lanceolate, entire or serrate, 
often 10—15 cm long, the upper ones linear, entire. Peduncles long, 
stiff, or heads in forsk sessile; heads ovate, 2 cm long; bracts and 
pales obovate, ending abruptly in a long awn; involucel hirsute, 
truncate, with 4 awns, much longer than the calyx-limb, and 4 inter- 
mediate, half or less than half as long. — Flow. March to April. 
M. ma. Mariut; Alexandria-West and -East; Abukir. — M. p. 
Qotiya; Seth. 
Also known from Syria. 
528. (2.) Pterocephalus Vaill. 
Tube of involucel 8-grooved or striate, ending in minute teeth 
or a shorth crown. Calyx-limb short-stipitate, with 12—24, plumose 
awns. Corolla 5-fid. Receptacle hairy or naked. — Herbs or shrubs. 
A small genus widely distributed in the Mediterranean region. 
1294. Pterocephalus papposus (L.) Halascy in Consp. Flor. 
Graee. I (1901), p. 762. — Pterocephalus involucratus Spreng Syst. I, 
p. 384. — Boiss. Flor. Or. I, p. 148. — Aschers.-Schweinf. Ill. Flor. 
d’Eg., p. 84 no. 507. — Aschers.-Schweinf. Primit. Flor. Marmaric., 
p. 652 no. 155. — Aschers.-Schweinf. Ill. Flor. d’Eg., Supplem., p. 768. 
— Sickenberg. Contrib. Flor. d’Eg., p. 243. — Pterocephalus brevis 
Coult. Mém. Dipsac., p. 44, tab. I, fig. 16. — Pterocephalus Coulteri 
Boiss. Diagnos. Plant. Or., Ser. I fase. X, p. 77. — Scabiosa papposa 
L. Spec. Plant. I, p. 146. — Scabiosa involucrata Sibth. and Smith 
Flor. Graec. I, p. 84. — An annual plant, 15—40 cm high or some- 
times somewhat more, pubescent and hairy, viscid; stems forked, much 
branched. Leaves pinnatisect into oblong-linear, pinnatifid, decurrent 
lobes. Involucre as long as or longer than the pink to blackish- 
purple flowers, larger leaves 2—4-lobed at the base; involucel trun- 
cate, ending in a small, membranous crown; awns 12, once and a 
half as long as the tube. — Flow. March to April. 
M. a. Marmarica; Matruga; Mariut; Behig; Alexandria-West 
and -Hast; Mandara; Abukir. — D. a. sept. Basatin. 
Also known from Greece, Arabia Petraea, Palestine, Syria, Mesopotamia 
and Persia. 
