Achillea. — Diotis. 1007 
Local name: qestm (Forsk.); bishrin (G. Roth); generally: 
ba’eytheran; ghobeyra (Aschers.). 
Also known from the other parts of North Africa, Arabia Petraca, 
Palestine, Syria, Asia Minor and Persia. 
1393. (2.) Achillea fragrantissima (Forsk.) Sch. Bip. in Flora 
XXXVIII (1855), p. 13. — Boiss. Flor. Or. III, p. 272. — DC. Pro- 
drom. VI, p.32. — Aschers.-Schweinf. Ill. Flor. d’Hg., p.89 no. 558. — 
Sickenberg. Contrib. Flor. d’Eg., p. 246. — Aschers.-Schweinf. Ill. Flor. 
WEg., Supplem. p. 761. — Aschers. Flor. Rhinocol., p.798 no. 145. 
— Santolina fragrantissima Forsk. Flor. aeg.-arab., p.147. — Del. 
[llustr. Flor. d’Eg., tab. 42 fig. 3. — A shrubby plant, 60cm to 1m 
high, or sometimes somewhat more; stems numerous, white-woolly, 
wand-like, rigid, paniculate-corymbose. Leaves small, sessile, thickish, 
oblong-linear to ovate, serrate. Heads ovate-oblong, 3—4 mm long, 
as long as the pedicels, in clusters of 3—4 on each branch. — 
Flow. March to April. 
D. i. Wady-el-Arish. — D. a. sept. Common in the Wadies. 
Local name: qestim gebely (Forsk.); eleyan; alegian (Schwein- 
furth); generally: baeytheran; babtineg. 
Also known from Arabia Petraea, Palestine, Syria and Mesopotamia, 
581. (41.) Diotis Desf. 
Heads many-flowered, discoid. Fiowers all perfect, the 5- 
toothed tube flattened-triquetrous, 2-auricled at the base, at length 
thickened, fungous, embracing the tip of the achene. Achenes ob- 
long, 3—4-angled, tapering at the base, auricles adnate to the 
corolla-tube. Involucre imbricated. Receptacle convex, chaffy. — 
White-pannous, perennial herbs. 
A small genus widely spread in the Mediterranean region. 
1394. Diotis maritima Smith Encyclop. II (1825), p. 403. — 
Boiss. Flor. Or. III, p. 253. — Rchbch. Ic. XVI, tab, 107 fig. III. — 
Aschers.-Schweinf. Ill. Flor. d’Eg., p. 89 no. 556. — Sickenberg. 
Contrib. Flor. d’Eg., p. 246. — Aschers. Flor. Rhinocol., p.798 no. 143. 
Aschers.-Schweinf. Primit. Flor. Marmaric., p.653 no. 166. — 
Athanasia maritima L. Spec. Plant. I, p. 1182. — Diotis candidissima 
Desf. Flor. Atlant. I, p. 261. — Otanthus maritimus Link and Hoffm. 
Flor. Port., p. 216. — A perennial plant, 25—40 cm high, or some- 
times somewhat more, stems numerous from a woody root-stock, 
erect, and ascending, thick, zigzag, densely leafy, simple or sparingly 
branched. Leaves somewhat clasping at the base, ovate to oblong, 
5 mm to 1,5 em long, obtuse, entire or crenulate. Heads globular, 
