984 Compositae. 
1353. (1.) Varthemia montana (Vahl). — Boiss. Flor. Or. II 
(1875), p. 212. — Aschers.-Schweinf. Ill. Flor. d’Eg., p. 86 no. 526. 
— Chrysocoma montana Vahl Symb. Bot. I, p. 70. —- Linosyris mon- 
tana DC. Prodrom. V, p. 352. — Inula conyzoides DC. Prodrom. VII, 
p. 283. — Varthemia conyzoides Boiss. Diagnos. Plant. Or., Ser. IL 
fase. III, p. 10. — A perennial plant, 40—50 cm high, or sometimes 
somewhat more, woolly with yellow glands interspersed; stems wand- 
like, branching from the middle, branches rigid, short, 1—3-headed. 
Leaves ovate-oblong, half-clasping, the lower 2,5 cm long, 1 cm 
broad, those of the branches and peduncles small, scale-like, sprea- 
ding; outer scales of the involucre somewhat glutinous, oblong, 
spreading-recurved at the tip, inner longer, linear. — Flow. March 
to April. 
D. a. sept. Wady Rishrash, in the both Galala. 
Local name: haneydey (Schimper). 
Also known from Palestine and Syria. 
1354. (2.) Varthemia candicans Boiss. Flor. Or. III (1875), 
p. 212. — Aschers.-Schweinf. Ill. Flor. d’Eg., p. 86 no. 527. — Sicken- 
berg. Contrib. Flor. d’Eg., p. 244. —- Aschers.-Schweinf. Primit. Flor. 
Marmaric., p. 652 no.59 — Chrysocoma candicans Del. Illustr. Flor. 
d’Eg., p.358 tab. 46 fig. 2. — Warthemia libyca Sch. Bip. in Schweinf. 
Beitr. Flor. Aethiop., p. 287 no. 2677. — A perennial plant, 50 to 
60 em high or sometimes somewhat more, valvety-pubescent; branches 
erect or diffuse, leafy. Leaves linear-spathulate, obtuse, revolute- 
margined the lower ones 2,5—3 cm long, 2—3 mm broad, the upper 
ones smaller. Heads 3—5 at the end of the branches; scales of 
the involucre few, erect, obtuse, the outer ones herbaceous, oblong, 
the inner ones linear. Flow. March to May. 
M. ma. Marmarica: Matruqa; Bir-el-Qasaba; Mariut; Montaza; 
Alexandria-West and -Hast. 
Local name: sawvtar-el-homar (Ehrenberg). 
Also known from Tripolitania and Arabia Petraea. 
562. (22.) Iphiona Cass. 
Capitula homogamous, discoid, the flowers usually all tubular 
and hermaphrodite. Involucre campanulate or ovoid, bracts multi- 
seriate, imbricate, dry more or less scarious; receptacle narrow 
naked. Anther-base sagittate with slender tails. Achenes subterete 
(hirsute in the following) 8—10-costate. Pappus 1—co-seriate, 
setae copious. — Branching more or less glabrous or scabrid shrubs, 
