1042 Compositae. 
1454. (3.) Carthamus mareoticus Del. Illustr. Flor. d’ Eg. (1813), 
p. 365 tab. 48 fig. I. — Boiss. Flor. Or. III, p.710. — Aschers.- 
Schweinf. Ill. Flor. d@’Eg., p. 97 no. 623. — Aschers.-Schweinf. Primit. 
Flor. Marmaric., p.656 no. 194. — An annual plant, 15—20 cm 
high or sometimes somewhat more, sparingly and appressed arachnoid- 
pubescent, woody at the base, sparingly and divaricately branched, 
diffuse. Leaves coriaceous narrow lanceolate, canaliculate, spinose, 
shortly 2—3 spinose-dentate on either side; capitula terminal and 
sometimes dichotomous; scales of the involucre small linear twice 
as long as the head, the inner ones scarious ovate in the upper 
part pectinately spinulous-ciliate narrowed into a short petiole; 
flowers pale yellow; achenes ovate-turbinate subtetragonous; setae 
of the pappus scabrid. — Flow. February to March. 
M. ma. Marmarica: Ras-el-Kena@is; Abusir; Mariut; Alexandria- 
West and -East; Abukir; a common plant throughout. 
Only known from these localities. 
1455. (4.) Carthamus tinctorius L. Spec. Plant. I (1753), 
p. 1162. — Boiss. Flor. Or. Ill, p. 709. — DC. Prodrom. VI, p. 612. 
— Rchbch. Ic. XV, tab. 15 fig. I. — Carthamus tinctorius var. typicus 
Schweinf. in Ber. d. Deut. Bot. Ges. If (1884), p. 365. — Aschers.- 
Schweinf. Ill. Flor. d’Fg., p. 96 no. 250. — Sickenberg. Contrib. Flor. 
d’Eg., p. 250. — An annual plant, 1—1,5 m high or more; stem 
corymbose. Leaves oblong, serrate-prickly, rarely entire, unarmed. 
Heads ovate-conical, 3 cm long, 2,5 em broad at the base; outer 
scales of the involucre leaf-like, obsoletely prickly at the margin, 
flowers red. — Flow. March to April. 
N. d. N.f. N. v. Cultivated and sometimes naturalized. 
Local name: qortom; the flowers: ’osfur. 
Probably origin from Arabia, cultivated in India, Orient, Egypt, Nubia, 
Abyssinia and Europe. 
var. inermis Schweinfurth in Sitzber. Deut. Bot. Ges. II (1884), 
p. 365. — Aschers.-Schweinf. Ill. Flor. d’Eg., p.96 no.622. — Sicken- 
berg. Contrib. Flor. d’Eg., p. 250. -— Lower leaves subentire, less 
spinulous than in the type; appendages of the scales of the involuere 
foliaceous abbreviate, ovate mostly entire, shortly spinulous-mucro- 
nulate; the inner ones shortly spinulous at the apex; flowers often 
orange-coloured. — Flow. March to April. 
N. d. N. v. Cultivated everywhere and often subspontaneous. 
Local name: qortom; flowers: ’osfur. 
Also known from Nubia and East-India. 
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