Tas. 7267. 
FERULA ‘trncirana. 
Native of Northern Africa and Syria. 
Nat. Ord. UMBELLIFERZ.—Tribe Peucepaner, 
Genus Frruta, Linn. ; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. i. p. 917). - 
F. tingitana ; glabra, caule robusto elato inferne folioso, foliis amplis viridibus 
glaucescentibus lucidis triangulari-ovatis quarternatim pinnatisectis, 
segmentis in petiolulum brevem angustatis oblongis in lacinias breves 
oblongas obtusas pinnatipartitis, superiorum vaginis dilatatis, bracteis 
ramorum basin oblongis cymbiformibus membranaceis deciduis, umbellis 
globosis aureis, fructu elliptico caesio margine semine quadruplo angus- 
tiore cincto, jugis tenuibus prominentibus, valleculis 3-vittatis, com- 
missure 4-vittata. = 
F. tingitana, Linn. Sp. Pl. p. 247. Gaertn. Fruct. vol. ii. p. 28, t. 85, £1. 
Ait. Hort, Kew, ed. 2, vol. ii. p. 137. Lamk. Encycl. vol. ii. p. 455. Illustr. 
Gen. t. 205, f. 2. Desf. Fl. Atlant. vol. i. p. 251. DO. Prodr. vol. iv. 
rigs Boiss. Fl. Orient. vol. ii. p. 992. Ballin Journ. Linn. Soe. vol. xvi. 
F. sancta, Boiss. Diagn. Pl. Or. vol. i. pt. X, p. 39. 
Ferula tingitana foliis lucidis, &c. Breyn. Hist. Prodr. Fasc. Rar. Pl. vol. i. 
p- 62 (1680), Sutherland Hort. Med. Edinb. Cat. (1683). Ray. Hist. Pl. 
vol. ili. p. 253 (1624). Hermann Parad. Batav. p. 165, ewm Ie. (1698). 
Rivin. Introd. Gen. in rem Herbar. t. 256 (1699). Ord. Pl. fl. Pentapet. 
Ie. (1699). Morison Plant. Hist. Univ. Oxon. sect. x. p. 309, t. 15 (1699). 
Boerk, Ind. Alt Pl. Hort. Lugd. Bat. p. 65 (1720). Linn. Hort. Oliff. p. 95 
(1737). 
The chief interest attached to this noble Umbellifer is 
that it has long been supposed to be that which produces 
the Gum Ammoniac of Northern Africa, and which article 
is still largely exported to Hurope and the Hast from the 
Maroccan ports of Mogador and Mazagan. For this 
supposition Lindley is the first authority, according to the 
late Dr. Pereira, who says (Mat. Med. Hd. 3 (1853) 
p- 1718), “African Ammoniacum, in Arabic Fasogh or 
Fashook, is, Dr. Lindley assures me, the produce of Ferula 
tingitana.” In this opinion he has been followed by 
Fluckiger and Hanbury, and Bentley and Trimen (under 
Dorema Aucheri, Medicinal Plants, vol. ii. No. 129). It is 
singular that none of these authors seems to have com- 
pared the leaves of F’. tingitana with the only authoritative 
figure of those of the Fashook, or African Gum Ammoniac 
December Ist, 1892. 
