Ammi. 699 
A. Leaves ovate in outline. 
I. Leaves 1—3-pinnately parted into oblong or ob- 
lanceolate, acutely serrulate leaflets ...... 1. A. majus. 
I. Leayes tripinnatisect into linear, divaricate lobes 2. A. Visnaga. 
B. Leaves oblong in outline .......2...2.-.. 3. A. copticum. 
988. (1.) Ammi majus L. Spec. Plant. I (1753), p.349. — 
Boiss. Flor. Or. II, p. 891. — Rchbch. Ic. XXI, tab. 23. — DC. 
Prodrom. IV, p. 108. — Aschers.-Schweinf. Ill. Flor. @Eg., p. 80 
no. 468. — Sickenberg. Contrib. Flor. d’Eg., p. 240. — Stems 90 em to 
1,5 m high, subglaucous, glabrous, terete. Leaves pinnately divided, 
segments cartilaginous on the margin, acutely serrate; lower ones 
lanceolate; the upper ones many-cleft, linear. Primary rays of the 
umbel sometimes 5 cm long, slender, and as well as the secondary 
rays scattered with a few minute serrulate points; secondary rays 
2—5 cm long, about equalling the linear acute bracteoles. Bracts 
of the involucre 1,5—2,5 cm long. Fruit 1 mm long. — Flow. 
February to March. 
M. ma. M. p. N.d. N.f. O. D. a. sept. Everywhere on way 
sides and often in fields. 
Local name: kerafs; khelle; sheytaniya (Ascherson); generally: 
khelley. 
Everywhere in the Mediterranean region, Mesopotamia and Persia 
frequently introduced into Middle Europe and in some localities naturalized. 
989. (2.) Ammi Visnaga (L.) Lam. Dict. I (1783), p.132. — 
Boiss. Flor. Or. II, p. 892. — DC. Prodrom. IV, p. 108. — Aschers.- 
Schweinf. Hl. Flor. @Eg., p.80 no. 470. — Aschers.-Schweinf. IIL 
Flor. dEg., Supplem. p. 758. — Aschers. Flor. Rhinocol., p. 797 
no. 121. — Daucus Visnaga L. Spec. Plant. 1, p. 348. — Ie. Jacq. 
Hort. Vind. III, tab. 26. — An annual plant. Leaves ovate in out- 
line, fan-shaped, tripinnatisect into linear, divaricate lobes. Umbels 
dense, with very numerous, 4—6 cm long, stiff rays, spreading in 
flower, contracted in fruit, arising from a dilated disk; bracts of 
the involucre long, filiform, tripartite, at length deflexed: fruiting 
pedicels thick; fruit 1,5—2 cm long, ovate, with thick ribs. — Flow. 
March to April. 
M. p. El-‘Arish, recently introduced. — N. d. N. f£. Common in 
waste place and in fields, especially in clay soil. 
Local name: khillal; khillin; gazar sheytany (Ascherson); 
generally: khelle. 
Also known from the Mediterranean region and the Orient. — The 
umbels of stiff, fruiting pedicels are sold as bundles of toothpicks. 
