Peganum
(the old Greek name, used by Theophrastus, for Rue, which the plants resemble). ORD. Rutaceae. A small genus (four species) of hardy, perennial, branched herbs. One is broadly dispersed over the Mediterranean region and the warmer parts of Asia, and the rest are found in Central and Eastern Asia and Mexico. Flowers white, rather large; sepals four or five, narrow, often leafy and pinnatifid; petals four or five, spreading, entire; peduncles one-flowered, opposite the leaves, sub-terminal. Leaves alternate, entire or irregularly multifid, not dotted. P. Harmala may occasionally be met with in English gardens. It thrives in any light soil, and may be multiplied by divisions of the root.
P. Harmala (from the Arabic name). fl. green-veined, with entire calyces. July and August. l. multifid into linear lobes. Root woody. h. 1ft. Europe, 1570. (S. F. G. 456.)