16 LXVI[1. UMBELLIFERE (HIERN). | Pimpinella. 
brous. Petals white or violet-purplish, rounded at the apex or rarely 
emarginate. Fruit ovate, densely covered with much-hooked hairs, 
ay in. long; styles rather short; stigmas capitate. Vitte 5 in each 
mericarp. 
Nile Land. Nubia, Soturba, Schweinfurth | 
Very like P. arabica, Boiss., but with more densely hairy fruit than in the rather 
young specimens that I have seen of the latter. 
14. ANTHRISCUS, Hoffm.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. i. 899. 
Calyx-lobes obsolete; petals oval, with a shortly inflected acumen, 
nearly entire, white; stylopods flat or conical. Fruit ovate-oblong, 
glabrous, with inconspicuous primary ridges, somewhat attenuate at the 
apex; mericarps subterete or somewhat dorsally compressed. Vittee 
slender, often unequal and irregular; carpophore undivided or bifid. 
Seed subterete, with a wide and deep furrow on inner face.—Glabrous 
or hairy, erect, branching herbs. Leaves pinnately or subternately de- 
compound. Involucre 0; involucels of 0 or several leaves. 
Genus of a few species, growing chiefly in the temperate and subtropical parts of the 
Northern hemisphere of the Old World. 
Primary and secondary rays of umbel several. Involucels of several 
bracteoles. Leaves several times pinnate Soe oe ee 
Primary rays of umbel 3 or 4, secondary rays 3-5. Involucels 0: 
Leaves 3 or 5foliate 2... . 
1, A. sylvestris. 
2. A. africana. 
1. A. sylvestris, Hoffm. ; DC. Prod. iv. 223. Stem terete, striate, 
glabrous or pilose, 2-3 ft. high. Radical leaves 3 or 4 times ternate, 
segments ovate-pinnatifid, glabrous or pilosely pubescent, on long 
petioles, dilated and sheathing towards base, 1-2 ft. long ; upper leaves 
on short dilated and sheathing petioles, smaller. Umbels lateral and 
terminal, of several primary and secondary rays; primary rays about 
lin. long, secondary rays $-} in. long. Leaves of the involucels 
many, lanceolate, giabrous or ciliate; many flowers in the secondary 
umbels abortive. Petals unequal. Fruit’smooth or with a few very 
faint tubercles, 3—-} in. long. Vitte about 9 in each mericarp ; carpo- 
phore bifid at the apex or to the middle. Pedicels with a fovw short 
caducous hairs at the apex, seen at the base of carpophore.—Chero- 
phyllum affine, Steud. in Rich. Fl. Abyss. i. 332. 
Wile Land. Abyssinia, Schimper! 
Widely spread in Europe and North Asia. 
Grows in damp mountainous places. Flowers and fruits in June. 
2, A. africana, Hook.f. in Journ. Linn. Soc. vii.195. Root perennial. 
Stem shining, terete, sulcate, 1-4 ft. high, simple and pubescent at the 
base, with divaricate slender glabrous branches above. Root-leaves 
about 6 in. long, 3- or 5-foliolate, on long pilose petioles sheathing at 
the base, with stalked widely ovate cordate irregularly dentate and 
sublobed retrorsely hispid leaflets, 1-2 in. long, the lateral ones often 
oblique at the base. Stem-leaves with gradually shortening petioles, 
