Bupleurum. 693 
abruptly acuminate, 5—7-nerved, scarcely longer than the angled, 
granular fruit. — Flow. March to April. 
M. ma. Marmarica: Umm Rakum; Matruga; Mariut; Abusir; 
Montaza; Alexandria-West to Abukir. — M. p. El-’Arish; el-Grady. 
Local name: halablib; helawan (Ascherson). 
Scattered along the North African Coast. 
978. (2.) Bupleurum nodiflorum Smith in Sibth. and Smith 
Flor. Graec. I (1806), p. 177. — Wolffin Engler, Das Pflanzenreich IV 
fasc. 228, p. 76. — Boiss. Flor. Or. II, p. 840. — Aschers.-Schweinf. 
Ill. Flor. d’Eg., p.79 no. 460. — Aschers.-Schweinf. Il. Flor. d’Kg., 
Supplem. p. 758. — Aschers.-Schweinf. Primit. Flor. Marmaric., p. 648 
no. 131. — Bupleurum proliferum Del. [lustr. Flor. d’Eg., p. 61 tab. 22 
fig. 2. — Bupleurum mareoticum Del. Illustr. Flor. d’Eg., p. 61 tab. 22 
fig.3. — Bupleurum nanum Poir. in Lam. Encyclop., Supplem. I p. 750. 
— An annual plant, 30—50 cm high or more, 2—3-chotomously 
branched from the base. Leaves linear-lanceolate to linear, 3—5- 
nerved. Umbels head-like, sessile, rays 3—6, all shorter than the 
involucre; bracts of the involucel ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, 
mucronate, translucent, three keeled. — Flow. February to March. 
M. ma. Marmarica: Matrugqa; Abusir; Mariut; Alexandria-West 
and -Hast; Abukir. — M. p. Rosetta; Damietta; el-‘Arish. 
Also known from all the other parts of the Middle and South-Eastern 
Mediterranean region. 
979. (3.) Bupleurum Muschleri Wolff in Fedde Repertor. 
Spec. Novar. IX (1911), p. 565. — An annual erect plant, 40—50 cm 
high; stems virgate, flexed, obsoletely angulate, in the lower part 
2—2,5 mm thick, branching from the base; branches elongate, sub- 
erect, virgate. Basilar leaves narrow-linear, stem ones clasping, acute. 
Umbels numerous, the terminal one with an 1—2 cm long peduncle, 
quadrangulate, 2—3-radiate, rays unequal. Involucre-bracts 2—3, 
shorter than the rays, narrow-linear-lanceolate, long-acuminate, 
3-nerved; bracts of the involucel 4, rarely 3 or 5, narrow-lanceolate, 
shortly acuminate, 3-nerved, middle-nerve carinate on the under- 
surface longer than the floriferous-umbels. Flowers 3—4 in the 
umbels, shortly pedicellate; petals pale-yellow, entire glabrous, 
semiorbicular, convex; style short; stylopod plan-compressed. — 
Flow. February. 
N. v. Hdfu, at the margin of fields (Muschler). 
Only known from this locality. — The species is closely allied to 
Bupleurum trichopodum Boiss. and Sprun growing in Cyrenaica. 
980. (4.) Bupleurum semicompositum L. Dissert. Demonstr 
Plant. (1753), p. 7. — Wolff in Engler, Das Pflanzenreich IV, fasc. 228 
