Phagnalon. 977 
D. a. sept. Wady Dugla; Wady Hof; Wady Rished near Helwan; 
Northern and Southern Galala. 
Local name: khani-net-ennager (Schweinfurth). 
Also known from Arabia Petraea. 
1342. (2.) Phagnalon Barbeyanum Aschers. and Schweinf. in 
Aschers.-Schweinf. Ill. Flor. d’Eg. (1887), p.87 no. 534. — Aschers.- 
Schweinf. Ill. Flor. d’Eg., Supplem. p. 760. — Sickenberg. Contrib. 
Flor. d’Eg., p.245. — Phagnalon aegyptiacum Boiss. Flor. Or., Supplem. 
(1888) p. 292. — A somewhat shrubby plant, up to 20 or some- 
times 35 cm high; stems and upper branches elongated into one- 
headed naked peduncles, like the whole plant whitish-canescent. 
Leaves rigid, on the upper surface pulverulent-tomentose, on the 
under surface whitish-tomentose, somewhat revolute at the margin, 
_ the lower ones oblong-linear, narrowed at the base, the other ones 
linear-lanceolate, half stem-clasping; involucral scales coriaceous, 
appressed, the inner ones ovate, acute; the other gradually larger 
and more acute, all floccose-tomentose at the back, in the upper 
part brownish-scarious, glabrous. — Flow. March to April. 
D. a. sept. Wady Hof; Wady Rished near Helwan; Wady Hamata. 
Local name: santf (Ehrenberg); gervit (Schweinfurth); goreyer 
(Schweinfurth). 
Only known from Egypt. 
1343. (3.) Phagnalon rupestre (L.) DC. Prodrom. V (1836), 
p. 396. — Boiss. Flor. I, p. 220. — Aschers.-Schweinf. Ill. Flor. 
d’Ke., p.87 no. 533. — Sickenberg. Contrib. Flor. d’Eg., p. 245. — 
Aschers.-Schweinf. Primit. Flor. Marmaric., p. 652 no. 160. — Conyza 
rupestris L. Mant., p. 113. — Phagnalon Tenorii Presl Flor. Sic. I, 
p. 29. — Conyza tomentosa Forsk. Flor. aeg.-arab., p. 148. — Rehbch. 
Icon. XVI, tab. 29 fig. 3. — An undershrub, 40—60 cm high, or 
sometimes somewhat more, appressed-canescent; stems numerous, 
ascending or erect. Leaves somewhat toothed, often wavy, the lower- 
ones oblong, tapering at the base, the rest oblong-linear, sessile. 
Peduncles from the upper axils single or in pairs; heads 1,2 cm 
long; involucral scales glossy, glabrous, very unequal, the lower ones 
leathery, ovate to linear, the upper-ones linear, all obtuse. — Flow. 
March to April. 
M. ma. Marmarica: Ras-el-Ken#is; Matruga; Abusir; Mariut; 
Behig; Alexandria-West and -Kast; Mandara; Abukir. — M. p. 
Rosetta. — Hverywhere in sandy places. 
Local name: twim-el-arneb; motey (Forsk., Del.). 
Also known from Italy, France, Spain, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Tripo- 
litania, Cyrenaica, Western Marmarica, Palestine and Syria. 
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