692 Umbelliferae. 
A considerable genus, widely diffused over the temperate regions of 
the Old World, and one of the few natural ones among Umbelliferae, but 
distinguished more by its entire leaves, with parallel veins and yellow 
flowers, than by the carpological characters, which in different species cor- 
respond to different short-fruited genera. 
A. Middle and upper leaves all perfoliate . . 1. B. subovatum. 
B. Leaves never perfoliate. 
I. Bracts of the involucel glumaceous, 
OXCAVALC. «sia wowed ce SU ele . . 2. B. nodiflorum. 
II, Bracts of the involucel not glumaceous, 
plane. 
a) Mericarp smooth. .... ° +s .«. 0. 1, Muschisr. 
b) Mericarp tuberculato-granulate . . 4. B. semicompositum. 
977. (1.) Bupleurum subovatum Link ap. Spreng. Spec. Umb. 
minus cogn. (1818), p. 19. — Wolff in Engler, Das Pflanzenreich IV 
fasc. 228, p.46. — Bupleurum rotundifolium Desf. Flor. Atlant. I, 
p. 229. — Bupleurum perfoliatum 8 longifolium Desy. in Journ. Bot. I, 
p. 315. — Bupleurum intermedium Poir. in Lam. Encyelop., Suppl. IV 
p.585. — Bupleurum protractum Hoffgg. and Link Flor. Port. I, 
p. 387. — An annual plant, 30—50 cm high, often somewhat more, 
glaucous, divaricately branched from the base. Root-leaves tapering 
at the base, oblong; stem-leaves oblong, the uppermost ovate. Umbels 
2—5-rayed; bracts of involucel 5—7-nerved, 3—4 times as long 
as the flowers, ovate-orbicular, mucronate; fruit ovate, granular in 
intervals. — Flow. February to March. 
M. ma. Alexandria-West and -East, in deep sandy places. — 
M. p. El-‘Arish. 
Local name: halablib; helawan. 
Also known from all the other parts of the Mediterranean region. 
var. heterophyllum (Link) Wolff in Engler, Das Pflanzenreich IV 
fasc. 228 (1910), p. 48. — Bupleurum perfoliatum y longifolium Desv. 
Journ. Bot. I, p. 315. — Bupleurum heterophylum Link Enum. Hort. 
Berol. I, p. 262. — Boiss. Flor. Or., Supplem. p. 251. — Bupleurum 
protractum Hffeg. and Link B heterophyllum Boiss. Flor. Or., Supplem. 
p. 251. — Aschers.-Schweinf. Ill. Flor. d’Eg., p.79 no. 459, — Sicken- 
berg. Contrib. Flor. d’Kg., p. 239. — Aschers.-Schweinf. Ill. Flor. d’Eg., 
Supplem. p. 758. — Aschers. Flor. Rhinocol., p. 796 no. 118. — 
Aschers.-Schweinf. Primit. Flor. Marmar., p.648 no. 130. — Bupleurum 
aegyptiacum Nectoux in Herb. Willd., no. 5640. — An annual herb, 
5—10 em high, glaucous, dichotomous from the base. Root-leaves 
linear-lanceolate or linear, the upper ones clasping, auricled to perfoliate, 
oblong-lanceolate. Umbels 2—3-rayed; bracts of the involucre ovate, 
