“7% 
Lryngium.] LXVIIl, UMBELLIFERE (HIERN). 
leaves, about 3 in. long by } in. thick, at ends of stem and branches. 
ilaments long, slender. Styles long; bracteoles longer than the 
flowers. 
Upper Guinea. Niger Expedition, Prince’s Island, to 2000 ft. alt., common, 
Barter! St. Thomas Island, 1000 ft. alt., Mann ! 
Occurs also in South America, where it is cultivated as a condiment; Florida, and the 
West Indies. 
3. ALEPIDEA, Laroch.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. i. 878. 
Calyx-tube covered with small tubercles; calyx-lobes ovate, rather 
blunt, membranaceous, not imbricated in bud, persistent. Petals erect, 
submarginate, inflexed. Fruit but little compressed laterally, tubercled ; 
commissure wide, primary ridges 5, manitest, enclosing one vitta in 
each; secondary ridges wanting; carpophore 0. Styles filiform, 
thicker towards the base; disk sessile, annular—Glabrous erect herbs, 
simple at base, 1—5 ft. high. Leaves rigid, serrato-ciliate, those at the 
base of the umbel 3—4-partite. Flowers without palew, sessile, in 
small globular heads, the outer ones opposite the segments of the invo- 
lucre, hermaphrodite. Involucre usually 10-partite, the segments 
alternately longer and shorter, entire, all exceeding the flowers and 
fruits, often white or coloured inside. 
genus containing three species, occurring only in Africa; possibly the three are 
orms of one species (A. ciliaris, Laroch.). 
Bracts of the involucre not exceeding } in. in length. Radical and ; 
basal leaves attenuate at base . . . . =... . . .. LA. amatymbica. 
Longer bracts of the involucre about 4 in. long. Basal leaves ; 
Sometimes rounded at base and distinctly petiolate . . . . 2. A. peduncularis. 
1. A. amatymbica, Ech. et Zeyh. Enum. Pl. Afr. Austr. 339, n. 2189. 
Stem sulcate, 1-24 ft. high. Radical leaves oblanceolate, attenuate at 
. base, about 6 in. long; stem-leaves lanceolate-oblong, clasping and 
auricled at base, shorter. Flowers many in each head, small. Invo- 
lucre not more than 4 in. long.— A. longifolia, E. Mey. 
Mozamb. Distr. Sotshi, Manganja mountains, lat. 15° 20’ S., alt. 3000 ft.; 4. 
Oct., Dr. Kirk! 
Occurs also in South Africa and Natal. 
2. A. peduncularis, Steud. in Rich. Fl. Abyss. i.820. Stem striate, 
1-2 ft. high. Radical leaves attenuate at base; basal leaves often 
oblong, rounded at the base and distinctly petiolate, about 6 in. long. 
Stem-leaves oblong or lanceolate, clasping and auricled at base, shorten- 
ing upwards. Flowers about 12 in each head. Styles long, curving 
outwards. Fruit rather larger than in the former species, zs in. 
long. Involucre about } in. long. 
Nile Land. Abyssinia, Schimper! fl. in Jan. and August. 
A 
only 
4. SANICULA, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. i. 880. 
_Calyx-teeth herbaceous, persistent, lanceolate. Petals erect, emar- 
ginate, inflexed with a long acuminate point, 1-veined, slightly imbri- 
