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equalling or shorter than the secondary rays. Calyx-lobes obsolete ; 
petals oval with blunt inflexed point, white; filaments exceeding the 
petals. Stylopods conical with dilatato-undulating margins. Fruit 
shortly ovoid, verrucoso-papillose, with distant primary ridges, laterally 
compressed, +); in. long. Vitte oo, 2 or 3 in the wide intervals of the 
ridges, 2 in the commissural face of each mericarp. Carpophore bi- 
partite.— Helosciadium simense, Hochst. in Hb. Schimp. Abyss.; Sium 
simense, Gay in Rich. Fl. Abyss. i. 324; Conium verrucosum, Hochst. in 
Pl. Schimp. Abyss. ; Siwm verrucosum, Gay in Rich. Fl. Abyss. i. 324. 
Nile Land. Abyssinia, by mountain-streams. Flowers and fruits in August and 
September. Schimper! Plowden! 
Abyssinian names, Kerounta, Zakeda, Antuohana. 
4. P. peregrina, Linn.; Sp. Pl. ed. 4, 378; DC. Prod. iv. 121; 
Rehb. Ic. t. 1866. Pubescent or subglabrous, biennial; stem erect, 
2-3} feet high, terete-striate, usually purplish towards the base, 
glaucescent. Radical-leaves pinnate with subrotund, crenate, mem- 
branaceous leaflets, the terminal one cordate, about 6 in. long; stem- 
leaves pinnate or pinnatisect; segments ovate or lanceolate, serrate 
or laciniate ; petioles long or manifest, sheathing ; umbels terminal on 
long or manifest peduncles, with 10-13 primary rays more than an 
inch long in fruit, each with about as many secondary rays } in. long 
in fruit; involucre and involucels absent. Petals ovate with a long 
inflected acumen and then emarginate, minutely toothed, white; mid- 
rib reddish. Stylopods conical; styles slender, erect-patent or more 
usually spreading. Fruit ovoid, hairy when young, hispid when ma- 
ture, somewhat compressed laterally ; mericarp somewhat pentagonal 
In transverse section, primary ridges blunt, $5 in. long; hairs not 
hooked. Vittze alternate with primary ridges, but 2 in each commis- 
sure. Carpophore bifid.—P. hirtella, A. Rich. Fl. Abyss. i. 823; Zra- 
gum hirtellum, Hochst. in Hb. Schimp. Abyss. n. 355. 
Abyssinian name Mazogo. 
Nile Land. Abyssinia, Mt. Scholoda; fl. Oct., Schimper / 
Grows in thickets. 
he Abyssinian specimens differ from the type by the styles usually spreading or re- 
curving instead of being erect patent, as is common in the type. 
Occurs also in South Europe, the Levant, Caucasus, Egypt, &c. 
D. P. Etbaica, Schweinf. in Verh. Zool. Bot, Wien. sér. i. 667. Annual. 
Quite elabrous except the fruit and sheaths of petioles. Stem erect, 
finely striate, glaucescent, erect or ascending, 2-12 in. high. Radical 
leaves on long petioles, pinnately tripartite; segments stalked, doubly 
trifid ; lower stem-leaves 5-pinnate-partite, segments divaricate, stalked, 
tripartite, partitions doubly trilobed, lobes oblong or linear acute and 
mucronulate ; upper leaves shortly stalked, tripartite, with linear seg- 
ments, trifid or entire; petioles long or manifest, sheathing at the 
‘ase; sheaths narrowed, whitish, membranaceous, slightly webbed- 
ciliate. Umbels long-stalked, of 3-7 primary rays, §—3 in. long, each 
of 7-12 secondary rays, ;1, in. long, somewhat hairy or at length gla- 
