Gnaphalium. 979 
1345. (2.) Gnaphalium pulvinatum Del. Illustr. Flor. d’Eg. 
(1813), p. 122 tab. 44 fig. 1. — Boiss. Flor. Or. III, p.225. — 
Aschers.-Schweinf. Ill. Flor. d’Eg., p. 88 no. 537. — Sickenberg. 
Contrib. Flor. @Eg., p. 245. — DC. Prodrom. VI, p. 231. — Diffuse 
or prostrate annual, lanate-tomentose all over; branches numerous, 
spreading, slender, terete, 6—9 cm long. Leaves spathulate, more 
or less obtuse, mucronate, attenuate at the base into the short petiole, 
8—10 mm long. Capitula campanulate, 3 mm long, crowded in 
subglobose leafy or involucrate terminal clusters, about 1 cm diam. 
Seales of the involucre sub-triseriate, lanate, linear-lanceolate, sub- 
acute, membranous; inner a little longer than the florets, scarious, 
whitish or purplish at the apex. Bisexual florets 83—6. Female 
flowers numerous. Achenes scabridulois or nearly so. 
N. d. Alexandria; Mansura; Benha-el-‘Asel; Zaqaziq; Tanta; 
Qalyub; Cairo. — M.f. Medinet-el-Fayim; Tamia; Senhur; Seniris. 
— N.v. Siut; Erment; Luksor; Aswan. — O. Little Oasis. 
Local name: rava. 
Also known from Kordofan, Arabia Petraea, Scind to India. 
1346. (3.) Gnaphalium crispatulum Del. Illustr. Flor. d’Kg. 
(1813), p. 123 tab. 44 fig. 3. — Boiss. Flor. Or. I, p. 225. — 
Aschers.-Schweinf. Ill. Flor. d’Hg., p. 88 no. 538. — _ Sickenberg. 
Contrib. Flor. d’Eg., p. 245. — Diffuse or somewhat prostrate annual, 
lanate-canescent all over; branches numerous, somewhat elongate, 
flexuose slender, 5—6 cm long. Leaves narrow-spathulate, more or 
less acute, somewhat undulate, attenuate at the base into the short 
petiole, 6—8 mm long. Capitula campanulate 2—2,5 mm long, 
crowded in subglobose leafy or involucrate terminal clusters, about 
0,75 cm diameter. Scales of the involucre mostly triseriate lanate, 
oblong, subacute, membranous; inner ones twice as long than the 
outer ones, glabrous; the outer ones elliptic-linear, whitish, much 
longer than the flowers; achenes smooth. — Flow. March to April. 
N. d. Destiq; Tanta; Shirbin; Mansura; Zifta; Benha-el-‘Asal; 
Belbés; Cairo. — N. v. Helwan; Beni-Suéf; Ekhmim; Girga; Farshtt; 
Thebes; Karnak; Luksor; Erment; Aswan. 
Only known from Egypt. 
1347. (4.) Gnaphalium indicum L. Spec. Plant. I (1753), 
p. 1200. — Boiss. Flor. Or. UI, p. 225. — DC. Prodrom. VI, p. 231. 
— Aschers.-Schweinf. Ill. Flor. d’Eg., p.88 no. 539. — Sickenberg. 
Contrib. Flor. d’Eg., p. 245. — Gnaphalium niliacum Raddi in Spreng. 
System. Plant. III, p.480. — Gnaphalium spathulatum Del. Ilustr. 
Flor. d’Eg., p. 122 tab. 44 fig. 2 not of Lam. — Diffuse annual 9 to 
20 cm high, branched at the base, thinly cottony in most parts; 
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