Pycnocycla. | LXVIII. UMBELLIFERE (HIERN). 9 
and upwards, hairy about the midrib inside, and on adjacent margins 
of lobes ; outer petal of outer flowers often larger than the rest. Fila- 
ments long. Styles glabrous long; vitte about 7 in one row, unequally 
distributed in each mericarp. Fruit 4 in. long.—P. abyssinica, Hochst. 
in Rich. Fl. Abyss, i. 333. 
Nile Land. Abyssinia, Mount Scholoda, near Adoa, fl. Nov., Schimper! 
Occurs also in N-W. India. 
6. CONIUM, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. i. 883. 
Calyx-teeth minute or obsolete. Petals obovate with a short in- 
flected acumen, slightly emarginate in consequence of the midrib being 
“eoply impressed inwards, imbricate in wstivation. Filaments not ex- 
ceeding the petals. Stylopodes depressed; styles short, reflexed ; 
ovules obovoid. Fruit ovoid, laterally compressed, ultimately'with a 
narrow commissure ; mericarp J-seeded; primary ridges equal promi- 
nent blunt undulate crenulate, at length smooth. Carpophore, ulti- 
mately divided; vitts oo , very small. Seeds transversely pentagonal, 
deeply and narrowly sulcate along the middle line of the face—A 
biennial tall glabrous herb. Leaves 2—4 times pinnate, with segments 
pinnatitid and incise-dentate. Umbels regularly compound, of several 
primary and secondary rays: 
A genus of only one species, which is widely dispersed over the Northern hemisphere 
of the Old World. 
1. C. maculatum, Linn. ; DC. Prod. iv. 242. Stem striate or sul- 
cate, tall, 2-5 ft. high, hollow, with opposite and alternate often spotted 
eaves and branches; ultimate segments of the leaves acute; radical 
leaves large on long dilated and sheathing petioles. Bracts of the in- 
volucre and involucel shorter than the rays, lanceolate, caducous. Root 
conical. Fruit 4-1 in. long. Primary rays of fruiting umbel scarcely 
an inch long, secondary rays } in. long.—Seseli cherophylloides, Thunb. 
Prod. 51, DC. Prod. iv. 148; C. cherophylloides, Eck. et Zeyh. Enum. 
Pl. Afr. Austr. 355, n. 2264. 
Nile Land. Abyssinia, Schimper! 
7. TRACHYDIUM, Lindl.; Benth. et Hook. f. 
Gen. Plant. i. 884. 
Calyx-teeth small. Petals ovate-lanceolate, 1—3-veined, entire, with 
an inflexed acute point. Stamens longer than the petals. Stylopods 
convex ; style erect; fruit ovoid, laterally compressed, somewhat nar- 
Towed at the commissure. Primary ridges blunt, vesiculoso-rugose 
Papulose or smooth ; carpophore bifid or bipartite. Seeds transversely 
Semilunate or subterete, concave on the face.—Glabrous herbs. Leaves 
subradical, pinnate, with innatipartite acute segments. Umbels re- 
gularly compound with abbreviated peduncle, long rays and short 
pedicels, and with many-leaved involucres and involucels. Vitte alter- 
