1002 Compositae. 
1382. (2.) Anthemis indurata Del. Illustr. Flor. d’Eg. (1813), 
p. 363 tab. 47 fig. 3. — Boiss. Flor. Or. Ill, p. 302. — Aschers.- 
Schweinf. Ill. Flor. @Eg., p. 90 no. 561. — Sickenberg. Contrib. Flor. 
d’'Kg., p. 247. — Aschers.-Schweinf. Primit. Flor. Marmaric., p. 653 
no. 168. — Anthemis secundiramea var. indurata DC. Prodrom. VI, 
p. 10. — An annual plant, 30—40 cm high, or sometimes somewhat 
more, appressed hairy, greenish, branching from the neck; stems 
prostrate, abbreviate, divaricately branched, often indurate. Leaves 
linear, somewhat fleshy, the first ones entire, the later ones divided 
into triangular-oblong lobes. Pedunecles short and mostly thickened; 
scales of the involucre hirtulous, the outer ones lanceolate acute, the 
other ones obtuse, broadly scarious; receptacle conical with oblong 
scales, carinate with a conspicuous middle nerv; female ligules short, 
ovate-oblong; tube compressed widened at the base; achenes turbinate 
obtusely cingulate, smooth, somewhat concave at the tip. — Flow. 
March to April. 
M. ma. Marmarica: Matruqa; Alexandria. — N. d. Alexandria. 
Only known from Egypt. 
1383. (3.) Anthemis deserti Boiss. Flor. Or. [II (1875), p. 305. 
— Aschers.-Schweinf. Ill. Flor. d’Eg., p. 90 no. 562. — Anthemis 
peregrina Decsne Flor. sinaic., p. 26 not of Linn. — Anthemis melam- 
podina Del. var. deserti Aschers. in Aschers.-Schweinf. Ill. Flor. d’Kg., 
Supplem. p. 761. — DC. Prodrom. VI, p.11. — An annual plant 
10—15 cm high or sometimes somewhat more, appressed-woolly- 
canescent, branching from the neck: stems erect or ascending. 
Leaves oblong to linear in outline, pinnatipartite into linear or oblong, 
obtuse, undivided or trifid, callous-tipped lobes. Peduncles elongated, 
not thickened. Involucre umbilicate, scales lanceolate, acute, the 
inner scarious at the tip; chaf oblong, narrow at the base, acuminate, 
keeled; rays white or pink; achenes grooved, with tubercled ribs, 
bald or obsoletely margined. — Flow. March to April. 
M. p. Rosetta. — D. i. Gebel Ekfén. 
Local name: qurbayan (Muschler). 
Also known from Arabia Petraea and Palestine. 
1384. (4.) Anthemis melampodina Del. [llustr. Flor. d’Eg. 
(1813), p. 351 tab. 45 fig. 1. — Boiss. Flor. Or. II,.p. 309. — 
Aschers.-Schweinf. Il. Flor. d’Eg., p. 90 no. 563. — Aschers. Flor. 
Rhinocol., p. 798 no. 146. — An annual plant, 15—25 em high or 
sometimes somewhat more, ash-coloured, woolly, branching from the 
neck. Leaves small, oblong in outline, 1—2-pinnatipartite into linear- 
oblong, mucronate lobules. Peduncles short, not thickened; heads 
2 em broad; scales of the involucre hirsute, lanceolate to oblong, 
