1034 Compositae, 
Local name: kheyzaran (Forsk., Del.); rumey (Wilkinson); ahna 
(Schweinfurth). 
Also known from Moroeco, Algeria, Tunisia, Tripolitania, Spain, Arabia 
Petraea and Persia. 
1437. (2.) Centaurea crupinoides Desf. Flor. Atlant. II (1798), 
p. 293. — Amberboa crupinoides DC. Prodrom. VI, p.557. — Aschers.- 
Schweinf. Il. Flor. 7’Eg., p.95 no. 606. — Sickenberg. Contrib. Flor. 
d’EKe., p.248. — Aschers.-Schweinf. Primit. Flor. Marmaric., p. 656 
no. 187. — Boiss. Flor. Or. III, p. 606. — Lacellia libyca Viv. Flor. 
Libyc., p.58 tab. 22 fig. 2. — Volutarella bicolor Cass. ap. Benth. 
and Hook. Gen. Plant. HU, p.476. — Amberboa sinaica DC. Prodrom. 
VI, p.559 (only a form whith larger segments of the leaves). — 
An annual herb, 20—40 cm high, or sometimes somewhat more, 
villous or glabrescent; stems slender, forked. Lower leaves nearly 
sessile, pinnatipartite into linear or oblong, usually toothed lobes; 
upper ones sessile, pinnatipartite. Heads ovate oblong, 1 em long; 
scales of the involucre 3—5-lined, acute, with blackish tip; marginal 
flowerets blue, disk-flowers golden. — Flow. March and April. 
M. ma. Marmarica: Matruqa; Mariut; Montaza; Alexandria- West 
and -East; Mandara; Abukir. — D. a. sept. Wady Dukhan. 
Also known from Moroeco, Algeria, Tunisia, Tripolitania, Arabia and 
Palestine. 
1438. (3.) Centaurea pumila L. Amoen. Acad. IV (1764), 
p. 292. — Icon. Vent. Malm., tab. 9. — Aegialophila pumila Boiss. 
Diagnos. Plant. Or., Ser. I fase. X p. 105. — Flor. Or. II, p. 703. — 
Aschers.-Schweinf. Ill. Flor. d’Eg., p.96 no.618. — Sickenberg. Con- 
trib. Flor. d’Eg., p. 249. — Aschers.-Schweinf. Primit. Flor. Marmaric., 
p. 656 no. 191. — Centaurea mucronata Forsk. Flor. aeg.-arab., 
p. 151. — A perennial herb, 5—15 cm high, appressed araneous- 
canescent; root fleshy cylindrical; stem fleshy dichotomously branched, 
branches very short. Leaves petioled often longer than the capi- 
tula pinnatisect, segments unequal ovate, oblong and linear; heads 
large ovate, aggregate, subsessile; scales of the involucre glabrous 
coliaceous yellow, ovate small white-membranous, minutely crose- 
denticulate narrowed into a spine; spines erect often as long as the 
scales; flowers purplish; setae of the pappus white, the outer ones 
thrice as long as the achenes; achenes sericeous. — Flow. March 
to April. 
M. ma. Marmarica: Matruqa; Abusir; Mariut; Behig; Montaza; 
Alexandria-West and -Kast. 
Only known from Egypt. 
