Peucedanum.] LXVIII. UMBELLIFERE (HIERN). 21 
divided. Leaves bipinnate, large, with dilated sheathing petioles, 
stalked pinne, and ovate-incised or sublobed shortly stalked pinnules ; 
segments rounded or obtuse, often shortly mucronate ; principal veins 
slender, clear, scattered with a few short bristles, in relief on both 
“des and of a paler colour than the leaves; the net-veins darker; the 
stalks shortly and inconspicuously pilose. Umbels peduncled, with 
many rather slender primary and secondary rays, and involucre and 
involucels of few short linear leaves. Primary rays of fruiting umbel 
2 in. long, secondary 4 in. long. Calyx-teeth minute; petals shortly 
oval, emarginate. Styles short; stylopods convexo-conical. Fruit ob- 
ovate-oblong, glabrous: primary ridges all equally conspicuous, }—43 in. 
long, } in. wide. Vitte large and solitary between the ridges 2 not 
distant in each commissural face. Seed concave on the face, with 3 
ridges on the back. 
Nile Land. Abyssinia, Gafat, Schimper! 1863-68 ; 8700 ft.; fl. and fr. October. 
5. P. Grantii, Kingston mss. Glabrous and nitescent, herbaceous 
Root tapering. Stem terete, striate, 14—7 ft. high, branched especially 
sbove, sometimes as thick as a walking-stick. ower leaves bipinnate, 
on long petioles, dilated and clasping at base; pinne distinctly 
stalked ; pinnules sessile, ovate or ovate-lanceolate, acute, cuneate at 
base, incise-serrate ; upper leaves usually ternate on petioles more or 
less dilated throughout their entire length; veins of all the leaves pale, 
delicate, but very prominent on the under side. Umbels on manifest 
peduncles, numerous, arranged in a paniculate manner, middle ones 
often subumbellate ;_ primary rays 4-4 in. long; secondary }—} in. 
long. Involucre of 0 or 1 small bract, involucel of several small brac- 
teoles. Calyx-lobes obsolete. Petals lanceolate, with inflected point, 
subentire; stamens longer than the petals; stylopods convex with 
sharp overhanging disk; styles very short in flower. Fruit much 
compressed dorsally with 3 rounded ridges on the base, winged on the 
margins, obovate-oblong, 4 in. long. Vitte 2 or 3 together, 4 in 
commissural faces. Carpophore bipartite. Seed somewhat convex on 
back, with a wide central trench on commissural face. 
Nile Land. Abyssinia, Schimper! White Nile, fl. and fr. in December, Pethe- 
rick! Unyoro, fl. in August, Speke and Grant! 581. 
Grows in woods. 
6. P. atropurpureum (Pastinaca), Steud. in A. Rich, Fl. Abyss. i. 329. 
Glabrous. Stem terete, finely striate. Flowers purple. Petals ob- 
ovate concave with inflected acumen. Involucre and involucels of 0, 1 or 
2 bracts with lanceolate subulate segments. Fruiting umbels of about 
? primary and secondary rays, about 1 in. and } in. long respectively. 
Stylopods depressed. Fruit purplish ? glaucous, narrowly elliptic, 
compressed, immature } in. long in our specimens. 
Nile Land. Abyssinia, Schimper ! 
Grows in shady places, and flowers in September. 
?. P. araliaceum, Benth. et Hook. f. Gen, Plant. i.920. A small 
glabrous tree, with terete stem and branches. Leaves pinnate, crowded 
