716 Umbelliferae. ° 
including the prickles; prickles thrice as long as the linear mericarp; 
styles very short. — Flow. March to April. — 
M. ma. Marmarica: Matruqa; Ras-el-Kena’is; Mariut; Montaza; 
Alexandria-West and -Hast; Mandara; Abukir, common in deep sand. 
Also known from Cyrenaica, Greece, Asia Minor, Syria, Palestine, 
Mesopotamia and Persia. 
1016. (2.) Caucalis leptophylla L. Spec. Plant. I (1753), p. 347. 
— Boiss. Flor. Or. I, p. 1084. — Aschers. Flor. Rhinocol., p. 797 
no. 130. — Aschers.-Schweinf. Ill. Flor. d’Eg., Supplem. p. 759. — 
Sickenberg. Contrib. Flor. d’Eg., p. 241. — Torilis leptophylla Rehbch. 
Ic. XXI, tab. 169 fig. 1. — An annual plant, 20—-50 cm high or more, 
dichotomously branched. Leaves oblong in outline, bipinnatisect into 
linear lobes. Umbels with short or moderately long, thick peduncles, 
and 2—4, short, thick rays; fruit oblong, 5 mm long, 3 mm broad, 
including the prickles; prickles in 3 rows, twice as long as the 
diameter of the mericarp; stigmas sessile. — Flow. February to March. 
M. p. Hl-“Arish; Feqirah. 
Also known from the other parts of the Mediterranean region, Mesopo- 
tamia and Persia. 
406. (29.) Cuminum Linn. 
Calyx-teeth subulate, unequal. Fruit oblong, tapering at the 
base and apex, somewhat compressed laterally, and somewhat con- 
stricted at commissure. Primary ribs filiform, obtuse, secondary as 
prominent or more so, more or less long-setulose. Oil-tubes under 
each secondary rib 1, thick. Stylopodia conical, tapering into rigid 
styles. Inner face of the seed somewhat concave. — Annual herbs, 
with minute, white or reddish flowers. 
A single species, with the short fruit of an Apiwm or Cicuta, but differing 
essentially in the deeply furrowed albumen. 
1017. Cuminum Cyminum L. Spec. Plant. I (1753), p. 365. — 
var. hirtum Boiss. Flor. Or. IT (1872), p. 1080. — Aschers.-Schweinf. 
Ill. Flor. @Eg., p.82 no.484. — Aschers.-Schweinf. Ill. Flor. dEg., 
Supplem. p. 759. — Aschers. Flor. Rhinocol., p. 797 no, 129. — 
Sickenberg. Contrib. Flor. d’Kg., p. 241. — An erect, branching 
annual or biennial, 60—150 cm high or sometimes more, usually 
glabrous, and emitting a nauseous smell when bruised. Leaves 
large and much divided into numerous small ovate or lanceolate 
deeply cut segments; the upper leaves gradually smaller and less 
divided. Umbels terminal, not large for the size of the plant, of 
10—15 rays. Bracts short and lanceolate; those of the general 
