Novitates florae aegyptiacae I

Pjanta perennis, herbacea, procumbens, hirsuto-puberula; a basi ramosa, caudice lignoso; caules 30-90 (-120) cm longi, simplices vel dmidio inferiore ramosi; folia herbacea, hirsuta, radicalia anguste obovata, acuta, basi sensim attenuata, 3-5 cm longa, 3-6 mm lata, 8-10 x longiora quam lata, caulina oblonga vel anguste obovata, acuta vel subacuta, basi attenuata, 1.5-4 cm longa, 3-10 mm lata, 4-8 x longiora quam lata; flores axillares, usque ad 7 inflorescentiam dichasiali-monochasialem vel monochasialem efformantes raro abortu solitaria, pedunculo bractea multo longiore; bracteoli oblongi vel lineares; sepala hirsuta, exteriora 7-8 mm longa, oblonga vel anguste obovata, longe acuminata, medium marginibus inaequalibus, interiora 6—7 mm longa, late oblonga, longe acuminata, basi truncata; corolla 1.3-1.5 cm longa, calyce bis longiore, limbo pallide roseo, tubo albo; stamina inaequalia, filamentis glabris; pistillum glabrum, stylo filiformi, stigmatibus filiformibus, stylo 1.5 x longioribus; capsula non visa. FI. Mart. – Apr. Fr. . . Typus; Abdallah s.n., U.A.R. (Egypt), El-Allaqi (Nile Valley), 21.3. 1962, holotypus (U), isotypus (CAI, CAIM, K, WAG).