714 Umbelliferae. 
the whole interval. Vittae 1 under each secondary rib. Inner face 
of the albumen grooved. — Annual, setulose herbs, with white or 
reddish flowers. 
A small genus of only a few species in Europe and the Mediterranean 
region. 
A. Umbels long peduncled. 
L-\Upper, leaves;longi ..w ye . Kiyateays eles 1. T. infesta. 
Il. Upper leaves gradually diminishing ...... 2. T. neglecta. 
5B. Umbels nearly sessile.) 0.0 --otiankt wrekel &) cree 3. T. nodosa. 
1012. (1.) Torilis infesta (L.) Hoffm. Gen. Umbellif. (1824), 
p. 89. — Boiss. Flor. Or. I, p. 1082. — Rehbceh. Ic., tab. 123 fig. 2007. 
— Aschers.-Schweinf. Ill. Flor. d’Eg.. p.82 no. 485. — Sickenberg. 
Contrib. Flor. d’Eg., p. 241. — Caucalis helvetica Jacq. Hort. Vind. I, 
tab. 16. — Torilis helvetica Gmel. ap. Boiss. 1. ¢. — Torilis purpurea 
Ten. Flor. Nap., tab. 131. — Torilis Friedrichsthalii Cesati in Friedr. 
Reise, p. 281. — An annual plant, 30—60 cm high or sometimes 
somewhat more, sparingly divaricate above. Lower leaves bipinnati- 
sect into ovate or lanceolate, incised-dentate segments, the terminal 
one of the upper leaves much longer. Umbels long-peduneled, 
2—8-rayed; fruit oblong, 6 mm long, 4 mm broad, including the 
prickles. — Flow. March to April. 
N. d. Alexandria; Sharabas. 
Also known from Middle and Southern Europe. 
1013. (2.) Torilis neglecta Roem. and Schult. System.VI (1820), 
p. 484. — Boiss. Flor. Or. II, p. 1083. — Aschers.-Schweinf. Ill. Flor. 
d’Eg., p. 82 no. 1083. — Sickenberg. Contrib. Flor. d’Eg., p. 241. — 
Scandix infesta Jacq. Flor. Austr., tab. 46 not Linn. — Torilis chloro- 
carpa Spreng. Syst. I, p. 898. — Torilis syriaca Boiss. and Bl. Diagn. 
Plant. Orient., Ser. I fase. II p.98. — An annual plant, 50 cm to 
1 m high, or more, divaricately branched. Leaves bipinnatisect, 
segments rather large, oblong, incised-dentate; the upper leaves 
gradually diminishing. Umbels long-peduncled; rays 2—12; flowers 
radiating; fruit 5 mm long and broad, with both mericarps densely 
prickly, or with one mericarp prickly and the other tubercled. — 
Flow. March to April. 
M. ma. N.d N. v. Common in waste and often in sandy places. 
Local name: khelle; gazar-esh-sheytany (Forsk.); qumeyley; 
qumely (Delile). 
Also known from the Canarian Islands, Southern Europe, Syria and 
Palestine. 
