Peucedanum. | LXVIII. UMBELLIFERZ (HIERN). 2: 
Mozamb. Distr. Maganja hills, 3000 ft. alt., Meller / 
Var. 8B. Nile Land. Abyssinia, Schimper! Coll. 1863-8. n. 923. 
Alvardia arborescens, Fenzl in Flora 1844, p. 312 (name only), Peucedanum, teste 
Benth. and Hook. f. Gen. Pl. i. 920, was found by Kotschy in the kingdom of Fesoglu ; 
I have seen it only in flower without leaves. It appears to be a distinct species. There 
is a specimen, 3 in. thick, in the St. Petersburgh museum. It fruits in M. . 
A specimen of a Peucedanum (Steganotenia), collected by Barter in the Niger Expe- 
dition, has nearly entire stalked ovate-lanceolate acuminate leaflets, widened to near the 
base, 7 on one leaf. It is probably a new species nearly related to P. araliaceum. 
Abyssinian name, Antrokohela. Manganja name, M’Poloné. White Nile name, 
Meonga Pembe. 
18, LEFEBURIA, A. Rich.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. i. 921. 
Calyx-teeth obsolete; petals narrowly cuneate or oblanceolate, acu- 
men inflected, entire. Stylopods conical or long and narrow, not 
dilated at the base, 4-connate or free. Fruit obovato-elliptic, flat, 
dorsally compressed, winged at the margin ; wings with a deep narrow 
Sinus at apex, not thickened; primary ridges 5, dorsal delicate ; vittwe 
solitary, conspicuous between the primary ridges; 2 distinct vittwe in 
each commissural face. Carpophore bipartite. Seeds flat—Hrect 
labrous, perennial herbs with terete stems. Leaves ternately divided, 
ower ones on long petioles, sheathing and amplexicaul at base, upper 
Ones simpler ; leaflets simple or subpartite, lanceolate, acute, attenuate 
at both ends, distantly serrate or very finely serrulate. Umbels ter- 
minal and subterminal, of several or many long slender rays and many 
slender shorter secondar rays; involucre 0 or of several delicate short 
bracts ; involucels of a few similar bracteoles. 
The genus contains only the two following species :— 
Tumary rays 12-16. Stylopods 3-connate, very narrow. Seeds . 
‘ sulcate on face . . . 1, LD. abyssinica. 
Primary rays about 8. Stylopods free, conical. Seeds flat on the 
ace, . kk ke ee ee we ee ee 2. DL brachystyla. 
_ 1. L. abyssinica, Rich. in Ann. Sc. Nat. sér. 2, xiv. 260, t. xv. 
fig. 1; Fl. Abyss. i. 328, t. lv. Glaucescent, 2-3 ft. high. Root 
leaves triternate, 2 ft. long; uppermost leaves nearly reduced to di- 
lated petioles about 1 in. long; leaflets coarsely and distantly serrate, 
Serratures apiculate. Umbels arranged on peduncles in a corymbose 
manner, the central one only fertile; primary rays of fruiting umbels 
many, oft in. long; secondary nearly 1 in. long, ascending, filiform ; 
receptacle of rays somewhat dilated. Stylopods narrowly conical, 
longer than the notch in the wings of the fruit, connate from the middle 
downwards. Fruit 4 in. long by 8 in. wide ; pedicels dilated at articu- 
lation with fruit. Seeds with a medial depressed line on the face. 
Nile Land. Abyssinia, Schimper! Fruits in November. 
2. L. brachystyla, Hiern. Subglaucescent, 3 ft. high. Stem-leaves 
ternate with lanceolate-linear leaflets, minutely and distantly serrulate, 
4-8 in, long, on manifest petioles sheathing at the base. Primary 
