20 LXVIII. UMBELLIFERE (HIERN). [ Peucedanum. 
Quartin-Dillon, Ant. Petit, and Schimper, some specimens of which Hochstetter (in Pl. 
Schimp. Abyss: sect. i. 379, sect. ii. 1879) had previously named A. graveolens, L. 
Richard says that this species is known in Abyssinia by the names Sadanskoa and 
Chelone. e only marked difference between these species consists in the fruit, 
which in A. segetum is laterally compressed, and without lateral wings. 
9. P, silaifolium, Jiern. Glabrous and shining except in protected 
parts above, herbaceous, pale, 24 ft. high. Root thick. Stem deeply 
striate, erect; branches several from the base, branched again above. 
Root-leaves about 10 in. long, on long petioles, clasping at base, glau- 
cous, lanceolate in outline, bipinnate; pinne and pinnules stalked ; 
segments biternato-partite with linear acute lobes; upper smaller, 
similar, erect. Umbels on erect or ascending peduncles somewhat 
glandular-hairy at apex, terminal and subterminal; primary fruiting 
rays 8-12, 1-1} in. long, and as many secondary rays +3,—2 in. long ; 
involucre and involucel of few small leaves. Petals lanceolate with 
inflected acumen, emarginate. Fruit oblong, }—} in. long by } in. wide, 
broadly winged, with 5 rather broad rounded conspicuous contiguous 
ridges and 2 exterior less conspicuous and smaller ones, slightly in- 
dented at both ends. Stylopods convex, exceeding the lateral wings 
of the fruit. Carpophore bifid. Vitte solitary between the ridges and 
wings; 2 rather distant ones in each commissural face. Seeds plane 
on the face. 
A Mille Land. Abyssinia, Schimper! Coll. 1863-8; 8200 ft. alt.; fl. and fr. 
ugust. , 
3. BP. Petitianum, 4. Rich. Fl. Abyss. i. 8327. Perennial herb, 
23-4 ft. high. Root thick. Glaucescent, glabrescent except in places 
about the upper part and inflorescence which are glandular- airy. 
Stem terete, striate, branched and usually geniculate above. Leaves 
tripartito-pinnatisect on manifest petioles, dilated and amplexicaul at 
the base ; pinne stalked ; segments narrowly oval or ovate, incise and 
serrate, the lower ones often with an exterior lo 
quickly glabrescent. Umbels at the ends of the stem and branches, of 
many primary and secondary rays (peduncled). Primary fruiting rays 
1—2 in. long, secondary }—? in. long; involucre and involucels of few 
small leaves. Flowers white. Fruit oval, broadly winged at the 
margins, marked on the back with much raised ridges and. 2 exterior 
less conspicuous ridges, 43,—2 in. long by 3-1 in. wide emarginate 
at both ends. Stylopods small on the fruit, convex with recurved 
short styles, exceeding the wings of the fruit; disk annular, undulated. 
Carpophore bipartite. Vittw solitary between the ridges and wine's, 2 
rather distant ones in each commissural face. Seeds slichtly suleate 
along the middle of the face. oy 
Nile Land. Abyssinia, Schimper! 
Peay cetera Fernando Po, Clarence Peak, 9000-9500 ft. alt.; fl.in December, 
4. P. altum, Hiern. A nearl 
. ‘labrous subel “Uh tt. 
high, with several terete striate ubglaucescent herb, 8—15 ft 
late branches. Root perennial, thick, 
be; slightly hairy but — 
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