700 Umbelliferae. 
990. (3.) Ammi copticum L. Mant. (1771), p.56. — Boiss. 
Flor. Or. Il, p. 891. — le. Jacq. Hort. Vindob. I, tab. 196. — Aschers.- 
Schweinf. Ill. Flor. d’Eg., p. 80 no. 469. — Carvum copticum Benth. 
and Hook. Gen. Plant. I, p.891. — Ptychotis copticus DC. Prodrom. IV, 
p- 108. — Trachyspernum copticum Link Enum. I, p. 267. — Pale 
glaucescent, slender. Stem erect branched, terete, striate, 30 to 
90 cm high. Leaves multifid with linear segments, the uppermost 
ones simply pinnatilobed; petioles sheathing. Umbels at the ends 
of stem and branches with very short hairs on the secondary rays, 
bracteoles, and sometimes on the bracts; primary rays of fruiting 
umbels about 1 cm long, secondary rays about 1—10th cm long; 
involucre and involucels of several linear leaves shorter than the 
rays. Petals roundly-obovate, bilobed, ciliate on the margins and 
on the midrib outside, white; filaments about equalling the petals. 
Fruit ovate, muricate or papillose, 1—12th cm long, contracted at 
the commissure. Carpophore bifid. — Flow. March to April. 
N. d. Near Kasr-el--Ain at Cairo (Hussein). — Has not been 
found again. 
Occurs also in Tropical Africa, Arabia Petraea and India. 
388. (11.) Berula Mert. and Koch. 
Calyx-teeth obsolete; petals oval with an inflected acumen, 
midrib impressed, emarginate, connivent in bud; stamens exceeding 
the petals. Stylopodia convex, thick, margin entire; style short and 
contiguous in flower, elongated and spreading in fruit. Fruit shortly 
ovoid, laterally compressed, subdidymous, contracted at the com- 
missure when ripe; mericarp somewhat pentagonal; primary ridges 
rather prominent, smooth, lateral ones near the commissure. Vittae co. 
Carpophore 0. Seeds terete-pentagonal. — Glabrous herbs, growing 
in marshy or subaquatic places. Leaves pinnate, dentate; umbel 
regularly compound, terminal and lateral, furnished with many-leaved 
involucre and involucels. 
A small genus of only a few species in the Mediterranean region and 
Europe. 
991. Berula angustifolia (L.) Koch Deutschl. Flora (1840), 
p. 433. — Boiss. Flor. Or. II, p. 889. — Rehbch. Ic. Flor. German., 
fig. 1878. — Aschers.-Schweinf. Ill. Flor. d’Eg., p.80 no. 467. — 
Sickenberg. Contrib. Flor. d’Eg., p. 240. — Sium angustifolium L. 
Spec. Plant. I, p. 1672. — A perennial plant, 30—40 cm high or 
more. Root stoloniferous; stem hollow, branching. Leaves pinnati- 
sect into oblong, incised, serrate leaflets. Umbels short peduncled, 
