Berula. — Pimpinella. 701 
opposite the leaves; bracts of the involucre large, lanceolate, incised, 
or entire. — Flow. February to March. 
N. d. Alexandria; Bank of the canal near Mandara. 
Also known from the other parts of the Eastern Mediterranean region 
and Europe. 
389. (12.) Pimpinella Linn. 
Calyx-teeth obsolete; petals ovate or ovate-lanceolate, glabrous 
or minutely dentate, usually with an acute or blunt point, emar- 
ginate or entire, connivent in bud. Disk with thick stvlopodia, convex 
or conical, margin entire; styles long or rather short, erect or 
spreading. Fruit glabrous, papillose or covered with straight or 
hooked hairs, laterally more or less compressed; commissure wide; 
primary ridges equal; secondary ridges absent. Vittae usually alter- 
nating with the primary ridges, 2 or more in the commissure of 
each mericarp. Carpophore bifid or bipartite. Seed subterete or 
dorsally compressed. Herbs annual, biennial or perennial. Leaves 
pinnate or decompound; umbels regularly compound; bracts of the 
involucre 0 or 1-leaved or sometimes many-leaved, of the involucels 0 
or of few leaves. Flowers white or slightly purplish. 
A large genus widely scattered over the World. 
A. Umbels with 5—8-rays; fruits 1 mm long. . 1. P. Schweinfurthii. 
B. Umbels with 10—12 rays; fruits 3 mm long. 2. P. Anisum. 
992. (1.) Pimpinella Schweinfurthii Ascherson in Sitzber. 
Bot. Ver. Prov. Brandbg. XXI (1879), p.69. — Sitzber. Naturf. Freunde 
(1879), p.43. — Aschers.-Schweinf. Ill. Flor. d’Eg., p.80 no. 466. 
— Sickenberg. Contrib. Flor. d’Eg., p. 240. — An annual pubescent- 
hirtellous plant; stems 40—50 cm high or sometimes somewhat 
more, in the upper part branched, striate. Basilar leaves long- 
petiolate, mostly pinnately ternate or biternate, leaflets like the 
lower leaves entire, orbicular, petiolate, at the base with a broad 
sinus reniform, subduplicate-incised-dentate; the cauline ones sessile 
with cuneiform-obovate segments, incise-dentate; terminal umbel 
1l-rayed, the lateral ones 6—5-rayed; involucrum 0 or rarely 
1-bract; involucel of only one bracteole; petals on the under- 
surface green-carinate, in the lower part sparingly hirtellous; stylopod 
conical; styles long, erect-patent, deciduous; fruits small, 1 mm long 
or sometimes less, densely with hispid hairs. — Flow. March. 
O. Great Oasis, in fields at Kharge near Gyau and near Gyenna, 
Only known from these localities. 
