Peucedanum. | LXVIII, UMBELLIFERZE (HIERN.) 19 
disk flattened, wavy ; stylopods small or long and conical. Fruit oval 
or obovate, much compressed laterally, with winged margins, convex 
on the back. Primary ridges on the back of the fruit, all or 3 interior 
ones, conspicuous, glabrous, often with filiform less conspicuous, inter- 
mediate ridges. Carpophore bipartite or bifid. Vitte solitary or 2 or 
3 together between the primary ridges, 2 or 4 in the commissural face 
of each mericarp, Seeds compressed, plane or sulcate on the face.— 
Glabrous or occasionally hairy, usually glaucescent and perennial herbs, 
or glaucous and glabrous shrubs or even trees. Leaves pinnately de- 
compound or pinnate. Umbels regularly compound. Involucre of 
0, 1, or few leaves; involucels of few or several leaves. Flowers white, 
yellow, or rarely purplish, polygamous, those of the central umbels 
usually perfect. 
_ large genus, inhabiting also Europe, Asia, S.W. Tropical America, and South 
Tica, 
Herbs. Fruit oval, much compressed dorsally throughout. 
aves bi- or multi-pinnate. 
Petals white or yellowish. Fruit pale. 
Vitte solitary between the primary ridges. 
Leaves without conspicuous veins. 
Segments of leaves setaceo-linear . 
Segments of leaves linear . 
Segments of leaves oval or ovate . 
Leaves with pale principal veins soe oe 
Vittee 2 or 3 together between the primary ridges . 
Petals and fruit purplish... 1. 1. ee ee ee 
Tees. Fruit obovate, much compressed but thickening upwards 
with strong disk. 
Leaves simply pinnate. Vitte oo. (Steganotenia). 
aves irregularly denticulate ; leaflets ovate-lanceolate, acu- 
. P. graveolens. 
F’. silaifolium. 
P. Petitianum. 
. P. altum. 
. P. Grantii. 
6. P. atropurpurea. 
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minate atbothends .......... . . . 7%. P.araliaceum. 
eaves serrato-setose; leaflets ovate-acuminate at apex, not . 
attenuate atbase . . . 1. 1. ew we 8 BP frarinifolium. 
1. P. graveolens, Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. i. 919. Glabrous 
erect glaucescent annual herb, 1 to2 ft. high or more. Root fusiform, 
whitish brown. Stem terete, finely striate, pale, branched above, 
slender. Leaves decompound with setaceo-linear lobes. Petioles wholly 
dilated and sheathing. Umbels at the ends of stem and branches, of 
many primary rays, 14 to 1} in. long in fruit, each of many secondary 
rays $-4 in. long. Involucre and involucel none. Flowers yellow. 
Calyx-teeth obsolete. Petals oval, with long inflected blunt point, 
nearly entire. Stamens exceeding petals. Stylopods depressed ; styles 
Short, reflexed. Fruit oval-oblong, glabrous, dorsally compressed, $ in. 
long. Primary ridges equidistant, prominent, the lateral ones winged 
when ripe. Vitte solitary between the ridge, and 2 in each commis- 
ig aichiaae graveolens, Linn.; DC. Prod. iv. 186; Rchb. Ic. 
a Land. Abyssinia, Petit! Schimper, 6000 ft. alt. 
igre name, Silan. 
A. Richard in Fl. Abyss. i. 329, reports Anethum segetum, L., DC. Prod. iv. 186, 
Carum Ridolfia, Benth, and Hook. f, Gen. Pl. i. $91, from Abyssinia, as collected by 
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