1022 Compositae. 
intermediate ones, free to the base, circa 2mm long, toothed at 
the top. Style bifid, barbellate at the back. Setae of the pappus 
free. — Flow. March to April. 
D. a. sept. In the Wadies of the Northern Galala. 
Local name: Khashir. 
Only known from Egypt. 
1419. (3.) Echinops glaberrimus DC. Ann. Scienc. Natur. (1834), 
p. 260. — Boiss. Flor. Or. HI, p. 426. — Aschers.-Schweinf. Il]. Flor. 
d’Eg., p.92 no. 591. — Aschers.-Schweinf. Ill. Flor. d’Eg., Supplem. 
p. 763. — A perennial plant, 40—60 cm high or sometimes some- 
what more, glossy, glabrous, except slightly cobwebby, under face 
of the leaves; stem slender, simple, l-headed. Leaves rigid, pro- 
minently nerved, lanceolate, pinnatipartite into small, ovate-oblong 
segments, with crowded, spiny lobes. Pencil half as long as the 
involucre; scales of the involucre about 16; chaff of the pappus 
short, free. — Flow. March to April. 
D. a. sept. Suez. 
Local name: Khashir. 
Also known from Arabia Petraea. 
1420. (4.) Echinops spinosus L. Mant. (1771), p. 119. — 
Boiss. Flor. Or. III, p. 429. — Aschers.-Schweinf. Il. Flor. d’Eg., p.92 
no. 592. — Aschers.-Schweinf. Ill. Flor. ’Eg., Supplem. p. 765. — 
Aschers.-Schweinf. Primit. Flor. Marmaric, p.655 no. 179. — Echi- 
nops Bovei Boiss. Diagnos. Plant. Or., Ser. I fase. VI p. 99. — Sibth. 
and Smith Flor. graec., tab.924. — Echinops echinophorus Boiss. 
Diagnos. Plant. Or., Ser.I fase. X p.87. — Stem erect, branched, 
90 cm to 2m high, terete, more or less white-cottony, not glan- 
dular. Stem-leaves sessile, ovate, pinnatisect, 5—16 cm long; seg- 
ments spinous-incised or undivided. Heads about 1,8 mm long or 
including the long spines that project from some of them about 
2°/, cm long, crowded in clusters of 6—9 cm diameter. Outer 
setaceous bracts silky, 5—8 mm long, nearly white. Inner involu- 
eral bracts about 17, narrowly spathulate or sublinear, acuminate; 
sometimes one or two project far beyond the others in a strong 
spine; the innermost connate at least half way. Achenes narrowly 
turbinate, densely setulose (in the spine-bearing heads). Pappus of 
setaceous ciliate scales connate nearly the whole way up. — Flow. 
February to March. 
M. ma. M. p. D. 1. D. i. D. a. sept. D. a. mer. Common in all 
the Wadies. 
Local name: shok-el-gemel (Forsk.); generally; khashir. 
Extends to Morocco, Syria, Arabia and Tropical Africa. 
