1058 Compositae. 
Local name: libbeyn (Ascherson); gelaweyn; kharra- bitty 
(Ascherson). 
Also known from Algeria, Tunisia, Tripolitania; Arabia Petraea, Meso- 
potamia and Persia. 
1481. (2.) Launaea tenuiloba Muschler comb. nov. — Zolli- 
koferia tenuiloba Boiss. Diagnos. Plant. Or., Ser. I fase. XI p. 50. 
— Flor. Or. HI, p. 822. — Aschers.-Schweinf. Ill. Flor. d’Kg., p.100 
no.649. — Aschers. Flor. Sirb., p.811 no. 24. — Sickenberg. Contrib. 
Flor. d’Eg., p. 252. — Aschers. Flor. Rhinocol., p.800 no. 168, — 
A biennial plant, 10—30 cm high or sometimes somewhat more, 
glabrous; stem branching from the neck. Root-leaves rosetted, 
elongated, pinnatipartite into slender, linear, entire or sparingly 
denticulate, white-mucronate lobes; stem-leaves with minute appen- 
dages at the base. Outer scales of the involucre ovate, abruptly 
white-tipped, inner ones linear-lanceolate; pappus persistent, as long 
as the achene. 
M. p. El-’Arish. — D. i. Sheykh Serhan near Salihiya. 
Local name: slihet-el-gemal (Ascherson). 
Also known from Arabia Petraea and Palestine. 
1482. (3.) Launaea Cassiniana (Jaub. and Spach) Muschler 
comb. nov. — Zollikoferia Cassiniana Boiss. Flor. Or. Ill, p. 822. — 
Aschers.-Schweinf. Ill. Flor. @’Eg., p.100 no. 650. — Sickenberg. 
Contrib. Flor. d’Eg., p. 252. — Sonchus Cassianus Jaub. and Spach 
Illustr. Plant. Orient. III, p.112 tab. 280. — A perennial plant, 
20—-30 cm high or sometimes somewhat more, glabrous; stems 
erect dichotomous or divariately branched, loose corymbose. Basilar 
leaves petioled oblong-lanceolate in outline with oblong-lanceolate 
more or less deep callous-toothed segments; stem-leaves very minute, 
auriculate at the base, incised or dentate, lanceolate; capitula ovata, 
medium-sized terminal, long-peduncled; scales of the involucre 
herbaceous, ovate and oblong shortly and obtusely mucronate; 
achenes slowly colum-prismatic truncate at the top, shortly velutine, 
the inner-ones glabrous; pappus as long as the achenes. — Flow. 
March to April. 
O. Dakhel; Great Oasis. — D.1. D. i. D. a. sept. D. a. mer. 
Often in deep sandy places. 
Local name: murreyrey-entiye (Schweinfurth); haudau (Ehren- 
- berg); ’adeyd (Klunzinger); generally: murreyr; yanotr; martr; 
abad; haddieyde (Schweinfurth). 
Also known from Tropical Arabia and Northern India. 
