18 LXVIII, UMBELLIFERE (HIERN). [ Diplolophium. 
2, D. zambesianum, Hiern. Glaucescent; about 4 feet high. 
Stem-leaves 1}-5 in. long; segments acicular; petioles 1-3 in. long, 
expanded, sheathing at the base. Primary rays of the umbel g—1§ in. 
long, rigid, glabrous; secondary rays }—;5 in. long. Bracts of the in- 
volucre glabrous, }~1} in. long by less than 7, in. wide, acute, shorter 
than the outer primary rays. Involucels }—} in. long. Petals equal, 
J, in. wide. Styles reflexed over the tops of the mericarps; stylopods 
epresso-convex ; 4 vitte in each commissural face. Fruit $ in. long. 
South Central. Highlands of Batoka country, Dr. Kirk! 3000 ft. alt. Flowers 
and fruits in July. 
16. FERULA, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. i. 917. 
Calyx-teeth rather prominent, small. Petals ovate, with inflected 
lanceolate acumen, slightly emarginate, nearly equal. Stamens with 
filaments longer than the petals. Disk flat, with narrow undulating 
margin. Fruit oval, dorsally much compressed. Primary ridges 9, 
blunt except the marginal ones, which are winged, 3 (or rarely 2) being 
plainly visible on each dorsal face. Vittz about 3 between each primary 
ridge, and 4 on the commissural face; carpophore bipartite. Seeds 
dorsally compressed, somewhat concave.—Perennial glaucescent herbs. 
Leaves highly decompound with filiform segments. Petioles of the 
upper leaves much dilated, sheathing. Umbels regularly compound, ot 
many primary and secondary rays, terminal, subterminal, and lateral. 
Involucre and involucels none or of few caducous leaves. Flowers 
yellow, polygamous. 
A large genus, inhabiting South Europe, Western and Central Asia, and North 
Tica. 
1. F. communis, Linn.; DC. Prod. iv. 172. Stem terete, striate, 
thick, 4-8 ft. high, with reddish spots or patches. Leaves widely 
spreading, the lower ones large. Petioles much dilated, membranous, 
sometimes 6 in. long and 1 in. wide, auricled or sagittate at apex. Root- 
leaves on very long petioles, which gradually expand into sheaths. 
Central umbels on peduncles about 4 in. long, bearing hermaphrodite 
flowers; lateral umbels barren on peduncles 3-33 in. long, in the axils 
of the uppermost leaves, which are nearly or quite reduced to sheathing 
petioles. Primary rays nearly equal, ‘about 1} in. long; secondary 
rays about 4 in. long. Fruit scarcely 4 in. long by 4 in broad.— Ferula 
abyssinica, Hochst. in A. Rich. Fl. Abyss. i. 826, 0 
Nile Land. Abyssinia, Schimper ! 6000-7000 ft. alt. Fl. and fr. November. 
, Occurs also in Algeria, on the shores of the Mediterranean Sea, and in Western 
Asia. 
The young stems when cooked are eaten in Abyssinia. 
Abyssinian names, Diéhgo, Dgog, Deok. 
17. PEUCEDANUM, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f£ Gen. Plant. i. 918. 
Calyx-teeth obsolete or small. Petals lanceolate, oval or obovate, 
with inflected acumen, emarginate or nearly entire. Margin of the 
peepee pest 
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