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principal umbel terminates th'e flem, and is large, plano-convex, and 
compofed of numerous radii; the lateral umbels are few, and grow 
upon flender pendent branches; the leaflets of the general involucruni 
about twelve, narrow, lanceolated, membraneous, wh it iih, and bent 
downwards ; of the partial involucrum they are fix, of the fame fhap 
and patent. 
at the circumference of th 
The flowers are all hermaphrodite, fertile, firfl open 
d followed fuccefl[ively by 
I umbel, 
thofe towards the centre ; the petals are 
points turned inwards, and are of a greenifh yellow colour; the ftamina 
qual 
patent, have their 
greenifli, longer than the peta 
d the anthers are yellow ; the 
germen is round and narrow at the bafe, the ftyles are two, fliort and 
tapering ; the feeds are two, brownifh, oval, with fmooth uneven fur- 
faces, and marked with three elevated lines. The whole plant is fmooth, 
has an aromatic fmell, and an acrid biting tafte. It is a native of Afri- 
It 
and 
fmce cultivated 
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ca, about the Cape'of Good Hope, and flowers in June and July 
was firft introduced into Britain by Mr. John Gerard in 1596,^ 
V_ _ 
the four fp 
defcribed by Linnseus have b 
by Mr. Miller. Through the indullry of Mr. MalTon, a new fpecies of 
the Bubon (the Ixvigatum) has been difcovered at the Cape of Good 
Hope, and is now in the Royal garden at Kew. Notwithftanding we 
have 
oflici 
prefented the Bubon Galbanum as the 
drug 
yet it , is ftill a matter of doubt which 
yielding the 
of 
thefe umbelliferous plants really produc 
referred 
Herman s Ferula Afric 
he thought this matter ftill uncer 
Galbanum is obtained from diffe 
upon the authority of Lin 
confine 
d 
es it ; and although we have 
yet we wifh to obferve, that 
It feems highly probable that 
fpecies of the Bub 
though 
medical colle 
figured. - 
ThC' juic( 
es, 
th 
the London, Edinburgh, and other 
reference 
to the 
we have 
is obtained partly by its fp 
V 
d 
Hort. Kew 
Genuina ilia planta, quae Galbanum officinarum fundit, 
noftri feculi Botanicis nondum innotuit. Ferulaceam effe veteres decent omneSj qu^nam. 
vero fpecies fit, non conftat. Parad. Bat. I. c. 
Hermann is certainly a good authority ; he was an intelligent phyficlan, and prac- 
tifed many years in the Eaft-Indies, about the latter end of the laft century, and alfo at 
the Cape of Good Hone : his judgment therefore, as well as his fidelity, is at leafl equal 
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to that of Plukenett's, which Linnaeus prefers. 
lachry 
Herm 
Galbano fimilem ft 
. !• c. 
No. 3 
& e diverfis ftirpib 
um eft 
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