Tnula. — Varthemia. 983 
Marmaric¢., p. 652 no. 158. — Icon. Engl. Bot., tab.68. — A perennial 
plant, 30—40 cm high or sometimes somewhat more, woody at the 
base, glabrous, corymbose to monocephalous. Leaves fleshy, green, 
linear-spathulate, obtuse, the lower frequently 3-toothed toward tip, 
those of the axils clustered. Peduncles long, beset with linear 
bracts; heads 3 cm broad; scales of the involucre linear-lanceolate, 
acuminate, the outer ones somewhat shorter; rays about twice as 
long as the involucre. — Flow. March to April. 
M. ma. Marmarica: Ras-el-Kena’is; Matruqa; along the sandy 
coast; Mariut; Montaza; Alexandria-West and -Hast. — M. p. 
‘Rosetta. — 0. Little Oasis (according Caillaud). 
Local name: zarata (Caillaud); hatab zeyty (Schweinfurth). 
Also known from the other parts of the Mediterranean region. 
1352. (2.) Inula viscosa Ait. Hort. Kew. III (1811), p. 223. — 
Boiss. Flor. Or. III, p.198. — Rehbch. Ic. XVI, tab. 44 fig. UT. — 
Aschers.-Schweinf. Ill. Flor. d’Eg., p.85 no. 519. — _ Sickenberg. 
Contrib. Flor. d’Eg., p. 244. — Erigeron viscosum L. Spec. Plant. I, 
p- 1209. — Cupularia viscosa Gren. and Godr. Flor. France. II, p. 181. 
— Solidago viscosa Lam. Flor. France. II, p. 144. — Jasonia glutinosa 
DC. Prodrom. VII, p. 285. — A perennial plant, 50 cm to 1m or 
more high, woody at the base, glandular-hairy; stems rigid, pani- 
culate. Leaves lanceolate to linear-lanceolate, sessile, remotely denti- 
culate. Heads 8 mm long, peduncled, in a leafy panicle; scales of 
the involucre puberulent, the outher ones short, oblong, obtuse, the 
inner ones linear; rays few, scarcely once and a half as long as 
the involucre. — Flow. March to April. 
M. p. Port Said (?). — N. d. Alexandria, borders of the Mareotis, 
common. 
Local name: ?urq-et-tayyin. 
Also known from all the other parts of the Mediterranean region. 
561. (21.) Varthemia DC. 
Heads discoid, obconical. Flowers tubular, all perfect 5-toothed. 
Seales of the involucre few, truncate. Receptacle honey-combed. 
Anthers caudate at the base, appendages frequently ragged. Achenes 
somewhat compressed. bristles of the pappus numerous, scabrous, 
nearly in one row, twice as long as the achenes. — Shrubby, 
branching, unarmed plants, distinguished from the nearly allied 
genus Inula by somewhat flattened achenes. 
A small genus widely distributed in the Mediterranean region and the Orient. 
Ay ibeaves ovatée-oblong tii ns 203 Sa 1. V. montana. 
B. Leaves linear-spathulate ........2.2.. 2. V. candicans. 
