986 Compositae. 
less herbaceous usually shorter. Receptacle foveolate or punctate. 
Ray-flowers ligulate or limb of corolla minute. Anther-base sagittate 
finely tailed. Achenes subterete or ribbed. Pappus more or less 
distinctly double, outer usually minute cupuliform dentate, inner 
setaceous. — Herbs usually hairy or puberulous with alternate sessile 
often amplexicaul entire or toothed leaves and solitary or cymosely 
panicled yellow capitula. 
A considerable Old World genus of the Tropics and Northern tempe- 
rate zone. 
A. Pappus biseriate. 
I. Leaves mucronate, denticulate, flat. 
a) Setae of the pappus 10. ......... JI. P. arabica. 
b) Setae of the pappus 18—25....., .. 2. P.sicula. 
II. Leaves obtuse, not mucronate, dentate, often un- 
dulated. 
a) Setae of the pappus 15........ . 3. P. undulata. 
b) Setae of the pappus 10... 4. P. inuloides. 
B. Pappus uniseriate 5. P. erispa. 
1357. (1.) Pulicaria arabica Cass. in Dict. Scienc. Natur. XLIV 
(1825), p. 94. — Boiss. Flor. Or. III, p. 205. — Aschers.-Schweinf. 
lll. Flor. d’Eg., p.86 no. 522. — Sickenberg. Contrib. Flor. d’Kg., p. 244. 
— Inula arabica L. Mant., p.114. — Pulicaria trichocephala DC. 
Prodrom. V, p. 478. — Pulicaria vulgaris Gaertn. — De fructib. I, 
p. 461. — DC. Prodrom. V, p. 478. — Herbaceous, erect, much 
branched at least above, more than 30 cm high, puberulous; branches 
subterete, striate. Leaves linear-oblong, subobtuse or subacute, mucro- 
nate, sessile, cordate semiamplexicaul, entire or obsoletely denticulate, 
1—5'/, cm long by 5—12 mm wide. Capitula hemispherical, many- 
flowered, 0,75—10 mm diameter, solitary or subsolitary, on pedicels 
1—5 em long, terminal and subterminal, radiate. Scales of the in- 
volucre pauciseriate, glandular-pubescent, linear acute apiculate; outer 
rather shorter. Receptacle plane convex, areolate, naked, 4—6 mm 
diameter. Ligule of ray tridentate, 0,5—0,75 mm broad. Achenes 
oblong, setulose. Outer pappus cup-shaped, dendate, inner of about 
10—12 setae, barbellate towards the tip. — Flow. March to April. 
M. ma. M. p. N. d. N. f. N. v. D. 1. D. i. D. a. sept. A common 
plant in sandy and stony localities. 
Local name: var¥Vayib (Forsk.; Schweinfurth); zaghlil; abi- 
*ain-safra (G. Roth). 
Widely dispersed in Europe, the Sahara region, Asia to Persia. 
1358. (2.) Pulicaria sicula Moris Flor. Sard. IT (1840—1843), 
p. 363. — Boiss. Flor. Or. II, p. 205. — Rehbeh. Ic. XVI tab. 43 
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