Iphiona. — Pulicaria. 985 
with alternate entire or toothed leaves and yellowish white capitula, 
either solitary or cymose. 
A small genus, chiefly Mediterranean and Mascarene. 
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B. Glandular-seabrous plants.) 2). js s« oj. sts. 2. I. scabra. 
1355. (1.) Iphiona mucronata (Forsk.) Aschers.-Schweinf. in 
Aschers.-Schweinf. Ill. Flor. d’ Eg. (1887), p. 86 no. 524. — Chryso- 
coma mucronata Forsk. Flor. aeg.-arab., p. 147. — Iphiona juniperi- 
folia Cass. in Dict. Scienc. Natur. XXIII, p. 610. — Boiss. Flor. Or. II, 
p. 210. — Staehelina spinosa Vahl Symb. Bot. I, p.69. — Chryso- 
coma spinosa Del. Ilustr. Fl. d’Eg., p. 128 tab. 46. — Conyza pungens 
Lam. Dict. I, p. 86. — A shrubby plant, glabrous, 30—50 em high, 
or sometimes somewhat more, branches intricate, forked corym- 
hose above, numerous. Leaves linear, pinnatipartite to the base 
into 2—6, prickly lobes. Capitula campanulate, 1—2,5 cm long, 
about 12-flowered, solitary, axillary, and terminal, often crowded, on 
pedicels ranging up to 2 cm long. Outer scales of the involucre 
ovate, obtuse, abruptly mucronate, the inner ones lanceolate. Receptacle 
0,3 mm wide, naked. Achenes oblong, 1 mm long, hirsute. Pappus 
tawny, multiseriate, unequal, subscabrid. —- Flow. March to April. 
D. a. sept. Often in the Wadies, especially in shady places. 
Local name: dafra; dafry. 
Also known from Arabia Petraea, Palestine and Syria. 
1356. (2.) Iphiona scabra DC. Prodrom. VI (1837), p. 475. — 
Boiss. Flor. Or. II, p. 210. — DC. in Ann. Science. Natur. (1834), p. 263. 
— Aschers.-Schweinf. Ill. Flor. d’Eg., p.86 no.525. — Shrubby, 
scattered with short glandular scabrous pubescence; branches ascending, 
numerous. Leaves subulate-pungent, sessile, 1—2 cm long, with 
1—3 spines about 4 mm long at the base on each side. Capitula 
campanulate, 1 cm long, about 14-flowered, solitary, axillary and 
terminal, often crowded, on pedicels ranging up to 2 cm _ long. 
Seales of the involucre 3—4-seriate, puberulous; inner linear, acute; 
outer shorter less acute or subobtuse; outermost acute. Receptacle 
2mm wide, naked. Achenes oblong, 4/,, in. long, hirsute. Pappus 
tawny, multiseriate, unequal, subscabrid. — Flow. March to April. 
D. a. sept. Suez. — D. a. mer. Qoseyr. 
Also known from Tropical Africa, Arabia, Palestine and Syria. 
563. (23.) Pulicaria Gaertn. 
Capitula heterogamous, radiate or discoid, outer flowers Q. Invo- 
lucre hemispherical; bracts narrow acute pauciseriate, outer more or 
