BUPLEUKUil. 
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finely pectinate and somewhat stiff or rigid. Umbels 1-3 or 4 , 
terminal and lateral with a 1. at the base of the ped., the latter 
l|-2 in. long, ribbed and furrowed, the former about an in. broad 
level-topped but not confluent, with 6-11 (mostly 8-10) un- 
equal primary rays 4-1 in. long quite smooth but ribbed or fur- 
rowed. No trace of general inv. Partial rays mostly numerous 
(6-10 or 15) unequal short ; constantly without any partial inv. 
FI. w. not small crowded close in separate distinct heads, not 
radiant, many of the outer without stam. but all perfecting fr. 
Pet. pure w. rather large curled or crisped at the edges with an 
incurved or indexed rather long acute lacinula. Stam. about the 
length of pet. ; fil. w., anth. pale purple. Styles at first a mere 
short minute erect point on the large conspicuous tumid and 
prominent but depressed cushion-like hemispherical distinct 
stylopod ; in fr. the latter becomes conical and the styles a little 
lengthened out and divergent but not reflexed. Ov. very small 
and inconspicuous. Fr. dark brown quite smooth and shining 
as if gummed or varnished, oblong or ovate-oblong, compressed 
laterally, the diam. at least twice the breadth of the commissure, 
the 3 dorsal ribs subapproximate, all sharp and pale, their in- 
terstices ( valleculee ) wrinkled and 4-striate, each 3-vittate. Com- 
missural vittce 4, superficial only, not sunk or grooved like the 
dorsal in the substance of the seed or albumen. 
6. Bttplettkum L. 
a. Annual herbaceous . 
1. B. protracted: Link. 
St. mostly branched from the base, branches decumbent or 
diffuse and straggling ; 1. glaucous flaccid perfoliate, the lower 
lanceolate-oblong amplexicaul, the upper ovate perfoliate ; um- 
bels 3- rayed, gen. inv. 0, partial 5 always spreading horizon- 
tally leafy broadly ovate mucronate coloured ; fr. thickly gra- 
nulate or verruculate between the filiform slender ribs and 
without vittce. — DC. iv. 129 ; Koch 321 ; RFG. t. 1880. f. i. 
B. rotundifolium Brot. i. 452 (not Linn.). B. rotundifolium 
j3. Loisel., and B. subovutum Spr. and Link ex DC. and Koch. 
B. rotundifolium A, Desf. i. 229. — Herb. ann. Mad. reg. 1, | ; 
PS. reg. 2, r. Amongst corn and in waste or fallow ground ; 
Mad. general as in Loo fields under Pico da Cruz and towards 
the Praia; PS. only here and there, as up the P. do Castello 
and towards the Fonte d’Area. March-May. — Root fibrous, 
not much branched whitish. St. flexuose upwards sometimes 
erect but mostly low and spreading with loosely straggling or 
declining branches which are pale whitish or purplish round firm 
smooth and striate. Whole pi. smooth 6-10 or 12 in. high. 
St.-l. closely crowded or imbricate about 3 in. long and 1 broad 
or in any case 3 times as long as broad ; upper or floral 1. shortly 
