. Flora of Syria, Palestine, and Sinai : from the Taurus to Ras Muhammas and from the Mediterranean sea to the Syrian desert. 25. DEVERRA, Deverra. Calyx-teeth obsolete. Fruit ovate or orbicular, laterally of mericarps filiform, nearly obsolete. Stylopodia conical, withsomewhat wavy margin. Intervals with one oil-tube. Carpophore 2-parted. Seed nearly terete — Much branched, rigid, perennial, desertherbs, with whitish, leafless stems, and white or yellowish-greenpetals. UMBELLIFER^. (PARSLEY FAMILY.) 345 1. D. tortuosa, Desf. Soquhlt. QasVch. Shebet-el-Jebeh to .6, gla
. Flora of Syria, Palestine, and Sinai : from the Taurus to Ras Muhammas and from the Mediterranean sea to the Syrian desert. 25. DEVERRA, Deverra. Calyx-teeth obsolete. Fruit ovate or orbicular, laterally of mericarps filiform, nearly obsolete. Stylopodia conical, withsomewhat wavy margin. Intervals with one oil-tube. Carpophore 2-parted. Seed nearly terete — Much branched, rigid, perennial, desertherbs, with whitish, leafless stems, and white or yellowish-greenpetals. UMBELLIFER^. (PARSLEY FAMILY.) 345 1. D. tortuosa, Desf. Soquhlt. QasVch. Shebet-el-Jebeh to .6, glabrous, dichotomously branched from base. Root-leaves andlower stem-leaves rounded in outline, bipinnatisect into linear-subulate,rigid, divergent lobes; the upper reduced to oblong sheaths. Umbelswith 6-8 rays, .015 to .02 long; persistent bracts ^m. 177. of involucre oblong-ovate, and of involucel ovate,membranous-margined, shorter than pedicels;fruits shorter than pedicel, sparingly hirtulous —Spring — Borders of the lesser desert, and 2. 1>. triradiata, Hochst. 21 QasuhJi. Qaz-zuh. .4 to *, glabrous; stems erect, juncaceous,alternately branched, loosely panicled above. Up-per stem-leaves reduced to short, ovate-triangularsheaths. Umbels 3-6 rayed; bracts of involucreand involucel caducous, the latter ovate, hooded, Fruiting umbel of long as flowers; fruits shorter than pedicel, tnradiata. densely long-hirsute — Spring — Sinai. 26. AMm, L. Ammi. Khilleh. Calyx-teeth obsolete or minute. Stylopodia flattened. Fruitovate or oblong, laterally flattened. Ribs of mericarps 5. filiform,equal, the lateral at margin. Intervals with 1 oil-tube. Carpophore2-parted. Inner face of albumen flattish — Annual or biennial herbs,with white flowers. A. majus, L. KhiJleh-Sheitdniyah. 0 .6 to 1. Leaves ovate inoutline, 1-3-pinnately parted into oUong or oUanceolate, acutely serrulateleajfets, those of upper leaves, or of al, linear^ entire^ dentate or
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