Coriandrum. — Bupleurum. 691 
380. (3.) Coriandrum Linn. 
Calyx-teeth small, acute, often unequal. Petals obovate, emar- 
ginate, white or purplish, of the outer flowers unequal, often radiant. 
Fruit subglobose, ridges not prominent, dorsal primary and adjacent 
secondary strongest, lateral primary and secondary obscure; vittae 
obscure, solitary, under the secondary ridges; carpels slightly con- 
cave on the inner face, commissure distinctly 2-vittate; carpophore 
2-partite. Seeps convexo-concave, about thrice as broad as thick. 
— A herb, annual, branched, glabrous. Leaves decompound. Umbels 
compound, rays few; bracts none or small linear; bracteoles few, 
filiform. 
A small genus of only a single species, very distinct in the from of 
the fruit. 
976. Coriandrum sativum L. Spec. Plant. I (1753), p. 367. — 
Boiss. Flor. Or. II, p. 920. — Rehbch. Ic. XXI, tab. 202. — Aschers.- 
Schweinf. Ill. Flor. d’Eg., p. 81 no. 472. — Sickenberg. Contrib. Flor. 
@Hg., p. 240. — Aschers.-Schweinf. Ill. Flor. d’Eg., Supplem. p. 758. 
— An annual plant, 40—50 cm high, or sometimes somewhat more, 
glabrous. Leaves of two kinds, the lower ones petioled, impari- 
pinnatisect into 2—3 pairs of ovate-cuneiform, obtuse, incised-dentate 
segments, the upper ones short-petioled or subsessile, 2—3-pinnatisect 
into linear-setaceous lobes. Umbels 5—10-rayed, involucre 0, or 
composed of 1, small, setaceous bract, involucel usually of 3, short, 
linear-lanceolate bracts. — Flow. March to April. 
M. ma. N. d. N.f. N. v. O. D. a. sept. Cultivated everywhere 
and often naturalized. — The plant has a disagreable bug-smell; 
it is used as a pot herb. 
Local name: kuzbavra. 
Cultivated everywhere in all part of the Mediterranean region. Wild 
known from Palestine, Syria, Mesopotamia and Greece. 
381. (4.) Bupleurum Linn.*). 
Calyx-teeth obsolete. Fruit laterally flattened or somewhat 
twin. Stylopodium flat or depressed, entire. Ribs of mericarp 5, 
equal, subulate, acute, or thickened, or nearly obsolete. Intervals 
with or without vittae. Seed flat or concave within. — Herbs or 
shrubs, with yellow or yellowish-green flowers, and entire leaves. 
*) The classification of this difficult genus is that given by Hermann 
Wolff in his: Umbelliferae-Apioideae in Engler, Das Pflanzenreich [V fase. 
228 (1910). 
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