14 LXVIII. UMBELLIFERE (HIERN). | Pimpinella. 
A large genus, widely scattered over the world. 
Fruit glabrons (T'ragoselinum, DC.). 
Stem manifest. Primary rays of umbel 6-9. Involucre of ; 
lleaforO0. . 0 ee ee ee ee ewe ee A B, oveophila. 
Stem very short. Primary rays of umbel 2-4. Involucre 
one. ww eee te es 2. P. Gymnosciadium. 
Fruit papillose or hairy ( Tragium, DC.). 
Fruit papillose . cee 
Fruit covered with hairs. ; 
Hairs not booked. 2-12in.high . . . . . . . . 4. P. peregrina. 
Hairs hooked. 2-34 ft. high . Loe ee . 5. P. Etbaica, 
1. P. oreophila, Hook. f. in Journ. Linn. Soc. vii. 195. Pubescent 
root perennial. Stem erect or ascending, 2-12 in. high. Leaves pin- 
nate, lower ones 14-5 in. long, on long slender petioles much dilated 
and sheathing at base, alternate ; leaflets subrotund or narrow, crenate 
or dentate, sessile or subsessile, sometimes sublobed or incise ; lateral 
leaflets often oblique at base, terminal one usually cordate. Umbels 
terminal, of 6-9 primary and secondary rays each, on long or manifest 
peduncles ; involucre of 0 or 1 filiform bract shorter than the rays in- 
? 
3. P. simensis. 
volucel of 1 or few similar and smaller bracteoles. Petals oval, with 
inflected acumen, white; filaments about as long as the petals; carpo- 
phore bifid. Fruit ovate-oblong, not winged, not more than +, in. long, 
glabrous. 
Upper Guinea. Fernando Po, 9500 ft. alt., fl. and fr.Dec., Mann! Camaroons 
mountains, 10,000 ft. alt., fl. and fr. Dec. and Jan., Mann! 
Nile Land. Abyssinia, Schimper! 
2. P. Gymnosciadium, Hiern. More or less pubescent, perennial. 
Root perennial; stem scarcely any. Leaves subradical, pinnate, of 
various lengths up to 6 in.; leaflets few, subrotund, crenate, sessile, 
terminal one deeply cordate, 3-6 in. wide; venules numerous; petioles 
long, dilated laterally and membranaceous towards the base with several 
parallel veins. Peduncle of umbel subradical, 1-44 in. long, slender ; 
primary rays 2-4, usually 3, 1-2 in. long, nearly equal; secondary 
rays 8-18, outer ones about } in. long, the inner ones shorter. Petals 
white (?). fnyoluere at involucel absent. Fruit squamosely hairy 
when young, glabrous (?) when ripe, +4, in. long.— adi ‘me 
pinelloides, Hochst. Le. Pe, ro ng.— Gymnosciadium pim 
Nile Land. Abyssinia, fl. June, Schimper! 
3. P. simensis, Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. i. 895. Glabrous. Root 
thick. Stem erect, branched, striato-terete, 1-2 ft. high or more, 
reddish towards the base. Leaves pinnate, lanceolate, ascending, 
ranging up to 33 in. long, with pinnatifid, ovate or lanceolate-acute 
pine ; lo eS Serrate or incise ; petioles dilated and sheathing. Um- 
els terminal, on long peduncles, with many rather une ual rimary 
rays 1-2 in. long and several secondary rays 4-1p in lone Tnvolucre 
very variable, shorter than half the rays, with 1, few or several lanceolate- 
linear or dissected bracts, varying much in different specimens both in 
size and development; involucels of several lanceolate bracteoles about 
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