Alepidea.] UMBELLIFERZ (Sond.) 533 
entire ; peduncles aggregated, rarely solitary, filiform, short, 1-5- 
flowered ; fruit obovate or suborbicular, longer than the ovate, acute 
or acuminate, 2-leaved involucre. Cham. § Schlecht.! l.c. 379. 
Var. a. glaberrima (DC. |. c. 69); erect, branched, quite labrous ; flowers poly- 
gamous, monoecious. #. virgata, Thunb.! fl. cap. 50. Lam./ ill. t. 188. f. 3. EB. Z./ 
2183. AH. filicaulis, E.§ Z./ 2184. H. fusca, E. § Z.1 ex pte. Zeyh. 727, 2668, a. 
Drege, 7620, 7652, 7625, 7626, 9543- 
Var. B. lanuginosa (Cham, & Schlect. 1. ¢.); erect, virgate, lanuginose-villous, 
polygamo-monoecious ; leaves broader, suleate, but not flat. H. lanuginosa, E. § Z.! 
2182. 
Van. y. macrocarpa (Cham. & Schl. 1. c.); virgate, glabrous, ee oe 
fruit larger. H. macrocarpa, Rich. Monog. 67, f. 40. E.G Z./ 2181. Zey. 2668, b. 
Drege, 1839, 7623, 7624. Herb. Un. Itin. 7. 
Var. 8. nana (Cham. & Schl. 1. c.); plant short, glabrous, polygamo-dioecious or 
monoecious; fruit small. H. alpina et trichophylla, E. § Z./ 2171, 2185. 
Has. In plains and on hills throughout the Colony; var 8. near the Gauritzriver, 
Swellendam; var 8, on Tablemountain and Devilsmountain, and above the Waterfall 
near Tulbagh. (Herb. Thunb. Hk. D. Sd.) 
Stem from 4-2 feet high, terete, dichotomously-branched. Leaves terete, acute, 
dilated at the base, 2 or more at the nodes ; lower and intermediate ones 2-5 inches 
long, }-1 line broad, the upper gradually smaller. Peduncles 2-6 lines long, in the 
upper, often woolly axils, capillary. Umbels very small, the fertile monocarpous, 
the male ones sometimes 4-8-flowered. Petals glabrous. Fruit more or less rugulose, 
14-2 lines long, 1 line broad, in var. y, 3 lines long, 2-3 lines broad ; in var. 3, 
suborbicular, about 1 line long and wide. Mericarps with § filiform ribs. The 
species is easily distinguished from all the others by the filiform or terete leaves. 
Il. SANICULA, Linn. 
Calyx-tube bristly; its margin 5-cleft, leafy. Petals erect, conniving, 
obovate, their apices inflexed. Fruit subglobose, not spontaneously 
bipartite. Mericarps with obsolete ridges, many-vittate, densely covered 
with hooked bristles. Carpophore indistinct. Seeds semiglobose. DC. 
lc. p. 84. Endl. Gen. n. 4382. 
Perennial herbs. Leaves radical, petiolate, palmate-lobed ; lobes cuneated, deeply 
toothed at the apex. Stem naked or sparingly leafy. Flowers in dense heads, 
sessile. General umbel with few rays. Leaves of involucre few, lobed. Umbel- 
lules of many rays. Leaves of involucel many, entire. Flowers, male, female and 
hermaphrodite in the same umbel. Name from sano, to heal or cure. 
1. 8. Europea (Linn. Spec. 339) 5 leaves radical, palmate-parted ; 
lobes trifid, serrate-toothed ; flowers polygamous, all nearly sessile, dis- 
din umbellules ; lobes of calyx denticulated. Schkuhr. Handb. t. 
60. Engl. Bot. 98. S. Europ. var. Capensis, Cham.§ Schl. Lnnn. 1, 352-— 
S. Canadensis, Thunb.! Fl. Cap. 254, excl. syn. S. Capensis, E.§ Z.12186. 
Schimper Abyss. sect. 2.2. 1127. 
Has. Woods and groves, districts of Worcester, Swellendam, George, etc. Oct.- 
Jan. (Herb. Hk. Sd.) : 1 : 
Stems 1-3 feet high. Flowers white or tinged with red, disposed in little heads. 
T have been unable to detect a character by which to separate this plant from the 
European specimens. 
II. ALEPIDEA, La Roche. 
Calyx-tube glabrous or muricately-tuberculate ; lobes erect, leafy. 
Petals inflexed. Fruit ovate, somewhat compressed and contracted 
from the sides, its transverse section nearly circular. Mericarps without 
