976 Compositae. 
Phil. (1818), p.75. — A small annual plant, 5—10 em high, or 
sometimes somewhat more, much branched from the base; branches 
filiform, prostrate. Leaves linear to oblong-spathulate, the floral 
oues about as long as the clusters, which are concealed in the fine 
wool. Scales of the involucre scarious, linear, obtuse. — Flow. 
March to April. 
M. ma. Mariut; Behig; Alexandria-West and -East; Mandara; 
Abukir. — M. p. Rosetta; Damietta. — O. Siwa. — D.1. Kafr- 
Hakim; Pyramids of Giza and Zawiyet-el-‘Aryan. — D. a. sept. 
Often in the Wadies on calcarious ground. 
Local name: kreyshet-el-djedj (Schimper). 
Also known from Arabia Petraea, Palestine and Syria. 
556. (16.) Phagnalon Cass. 
Capitula heterogamous, disciform, many-flowered; outer flowers 
co female, central ones oo bisexual. Involucre campanulate or sub- 
hemispherical, scales oo-seriate, imbricate and scarious or membranous, 
outer gradually shorter. Receptacle plane naked (or foveolate). 
Corolla of the female flower tubular, filiform, minutely dentate, of 
the bisexual flower tubular but slightly wider above, 5-toothed. 
Anther-base scarcely or obscurely produced at the base; apical con- 
nective ovate obtuse or retuse. Style-branches obtuse or subtruncate. 
Achenes small; pappus of slender 1l-seriate setae. — Small shrubs 
ascending or decumbent, more or less whitish tomentose or glabrate. 
Leaves alternate, narrow. Capitula of medium size, pedunculate, 
solitary or loosely corymbose or axillary. 
A small genus extending from the Atlantic Islands eastward into Asia. 
A. Leaves acute. 
I. Leaves glabrescent on the upper surface. 1. P. nitidum. 
Il. Leaves white-tomentose on theupper surface 2. P. Barbeyanum. 
B.. Leaves: obtusel. o25.— Sitsuis copra ao ke ee ies ee COMI PUpOAEEEE 
1341. (1.) Phagnalon nitidum Fresen. Mus. Senckenberg II 
(1835), p. 81 tab. 4 fig. 2. — Boiss. Flor. Or. Il, p. 220. — Aschers.- 
Schweinf. Il. Flor. d’Eg., p. 86 no. 532. — Sickenberg. Contrib. Flor. 
d’He., p. 245. — A perennial plant, 15—20 cm high, or sometimes 
somewhat more, stems ascending, simple or sparingly branched. 
Leaves oblong to linear, acutish, auricled at the base. Peduncles 
terminal; scales of the involucre glabrescent, glossy, scarious, with 
purplish-brown median nerve, and pellucid, ragged-toothed margin, 
the outer ones rounded-ovate, mucronate, the inner ones lanceolate, 
larger. — Flow. March to April. 
