24 LXVIIJ. UMBELLIFERZ (HIERN). | Lefeburia. 
rays about 8, 24 in. long. Receptacle of rays scarcely dilated ; secon- 
dary rays 3-2 in. long. Stylopods conical, free, not exceeding the 
noteh of the fruit ; styles recurved. Fruit }—} in. long by 1-3 in. wide ; 
pedicels dilated at articulation with fruit. Seeds flat on the face. 
Nile Land. Upper Nile, Province Unyamuezi. In marsh or backwater by R. 
Wallah, 5°S. lat., 33° E. long.; alt. 3800 ft., Speke and Grant! 
19. MALABAILA, Hoffm.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. i. 923. 
Calyx-teeth minute; petals oval, with a filiform inflected acumen, 
emarginate, slightly hairy outside. Filaments longer than the petals. 
Stylopods convex-conical; surrounded by a slightly waved margin. 
Fruit obcordate-oblong, flatly and dorsally compressed, surrounded by 
a wide somewhat thickened margin, cordate at the apex, with the sty- 
lopods in the notch, which extends about as high as the margin of the 
fruit, glabrous, wider at base than the pedicel ; primary ridges delicate, 
except the winged marginal ones. Vittz solitary between the primary 
ridges, equal, reaching 2 way down the fruit, broad, clearly seen 
from outside ; 2 vittee in each commissural face. Carpophore bipartite. 
Seed flat.—Perennial erect tall herbs. Leaves pinnate, with incise- 
dentate ovate usually acute pinne. Umbels terminal and subterminal, 
regularly compound, of several primary and many secondary rays; 
involucre of 0, 1 or few bracts, and involucels of many linear-acute 
bracteoles. 
‘ A genus of a few species occurring in Eastern Africa, South-east Europe, and Western 
sia. 
1. M. abyssinica, Boiss. in Ann. Sc. Nat. Sér. 8, Pl. i. 338. Glan- 
dular-pubescent in upper part, hairy below. Stem terete, striate, 2-3 ft. 
high. Root-leaves more than a foot long, on petioles 6 in. long clasp- 
ing at base; lower leaves 4—6 in. long, on petioles 2-8 in. long, dilated 
into a clasping sheath about 1-2 in. long. Outer primary rays of fruit- 
ing umbels 2—3}in. long; secondary rays }—3, in.long. Fruit 2—2 in. 
long by {—3 in. wide.— Peucedanum (Cervaria), Hochst. in Hb. Schimp. 
Abyss. n. 204. 
Wile Land. Abyssinia, Schimper! Quartin-Dillon and Petit (?); 8000 ft. alt. ; 
fr. Nov., Schimper. ; 
Abyssinian name, Mokuessa. 
20. DAUCUS, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. i. 928. 
Calyx-teeth acute; petals unequal, obovate, with inflected acumen, 
deeply emarginate, or the larger ones bilobed. Stylopods shortly 
conical, Fruit ovoid, somewhat compressed laterally or subterete; 9 
a, ridges not prominent, with 2 faint rows of short thin patent 
airs; 4 secondary ridges very prominent, armed with long spines 
hooked at the end or glochidiate. Vitte solitary under the secondary 
ridges, and 2 contiguous in the commissural face of each mericarp. 
Carpophore undivided. Seed sub- or }-terete, somewhat hollowed in 
