1020 Compositae. 
var. suberostris Boiss. Flor. Or. III (1875), p. 419. — Aschers.- 
Schweinf. Ill. Flor. d’Eg., p. 91 no. 588. — Sickenberg. Contrib. Flor. 
d’Eg., p. 248. — Calendula sancta L. Spec. Plant. I, p. 1304 (?). — 
Marginal achenes winged-inflated; beak short or often 0; inter- 
mediate ones beakless. — Flow. March to April. 
M. ma. N. d. N. f. D. a. sept. Between the type. 
Also known from Palestine. 
588. (48.) Gundelia Tournef. 
Headlets of 5—7 flowers, subtended by a prickly bract of 
the compound head, connate with the prickly, united scales of the 
involucre, the central flower of each headlet fertile, the others 
sterile. Anthers long, linear, base obtusely sagittate. Style some- 
what hispid, branches thick, flat, cylindrical. Achenes large, some- 
what compressed-tetragonal, tapering at the base, tipped with a 
spongy, minutely toothed cup. The common involucre of each 
headlet growing, and united into a leathery, obpyramidal body, 
spiny at the tip, and falling at maturity. — Milky, prickly herbs, 
with aspect of Eryngium. 
A small genus in the Orient. 
1416. Gundelia Tournefortii L. Spec. Plant. I (1753), p. 1315. 
— Boiss. Flor. Or. Ill, p.421. — Aschers. Flor. Rhinoe., p.799 no. 153. 
— A perennial plant, 40—50 cm high or sometimes somewhat more, 
stems thick, simple, or with a few, short, corymbose branches above. 
Leaves leathery, rigid, very thick, with prominent veins, oblong to 
oblong-lanceolate, pinnately lobed or parted, spiny-toothed. — Flow. 
March to April. 
D. i. Between El-Grady and Kharuba. 
Also known from Arabia Petraea and Palestine. 
589. (49.) Echinops Linn. 
Capitula 1-flowered, usually numerous and densely aggregated 
in globose heads: common involucre usually concealed, of small or 
setiform reflexed scales. Partial involucres of numerous rigid im- 
bricate pointed or spinose bracts the outer successarily shorter and 
usually passing gradually or abruptly into slender setae; inner 
bracts sometimes fasciculate-spinulose near the apex. Corolla regular, 
Achenes elongate subterete; pappus of nearly free or connate more 
or less paleaceous setae. — Spinose thistle-like herbs, frequently 
more or less hoary-tomentose, with alternate pinnati- or bipinnati- 
