170 UMBELLIFER^. 



BUPLEURUM. F.B.I. 70 vii. 



Hare^s-ear. 

 A genus remarkable in this family for its entire and 

 for the most part grass-like leaves. Mericarps not com- 

 pressed, with no secondary ridges, and with one to three 

 vittas in the valleys. 



Species 60 in the temperate regions of the Old World. One 

 in South Africa, one in Arctic North America. In Europe we 

 have Hare's-ear, Thorowax ; Ger. Hasenohr. 

 Leaves 4 to 10 by J^ to i inch . . . . B. plantaginifolium. 

 Leaves 2 to 6 by J^ inch or more. . . . B. mucronatum. 



Leaves ^ to 2 by one-sixteen to i/^ inch, grass-like 



B. distichoph)'llum. 



Bupleurum plantaginifolium Wight ; F.B.I, ii 675, VD 

 I ; Giant Hare's-ear. A tall perennial herb, with stem 

 towards the top, where all the leaves are, as thick as a 

 stout lead-pencil ; base bare. Leaves with broad base 

 half encircling the axis, then narrowed and widening 

 gradually into the blade, which may be 10 inches long and 

 over I inch wide ; oblong-lanceolate, acute at both ends, 

 strongly mucronate, with prominent midrib and five to 

 eight slender nerves starting from near the base, and 

 running at a very acute angle to meet the margin near the 

 apex ; upper leaves crowded, shorter to ovate, obtuse but 

 mucronate, with much less distinct midrib. Umbels in 

 branched panicles, with conspicuous elliptic mucronate 

 bracts at the forkings : bracts of the umbels four to five, 

 J4 inch, three to seven-nerved, oblanceolate, mucronate : 

 pedicels }i inch. Petals yellow, refiexed. Mericarps 54 

 to % inch by 1/16, to ^ inch, prominently five-ribbed, 

 slightly curved towards the inner, flatter, side. t. 125. 

 (bj an unripe fruit- Wight Ic. t. 281. 



Nilgiris : near Ootacamund on Snowdon, Elk Hill, etc. 

 Fruiting in July ; Coonoor. Not collected on the Pulneys. 

 Bourne 4635. 



Gen. Dist. Not elsewhere. 



