536 UMBELLIFERZ (Sond.) [ Ptychotis. 
1. H. repens (Koch. DC. 1. c. 105); glabrous, perennial ; stem pros- 
trate, rooting ; leaves pinnate ; leaflets roundish-ovate, unequally and 
acutely inciso serrate ; umbels on long peduncles, opposite to the leaves; 
involucre of 2-4 ovate-lanceolate, permanent leaves ; fruit glabrous, 
Siumrepens Linn. fil. Fl. Dan. 1514. Eng. Bot.t.1431. E.&Z.! 2195. 
Has. Marshy places in Zwartland, Brehm. (Herb. Sd.) 
Stem 4-1 foot long, quite prostrate. Leaves petiolate, 1-2 inches ; leaflets 2-3 
lines long and wide, sessile. Involucre shorter than the (3-6) rays; involucels as 
long or longer than the pedicels. Flowers very small. 
2, H, Capense (E. & Z.! 2196); pubescent, annual; stem erect, 
branched ; leaves long, petiolate, ternately-partite ; lobes 2—3-fid, linear- 
oblong, acute ; umbels axillary, with 3- 5 rays ; umbellules 1-3-flowered, 
involucel few-leaved or wanting ; fruit ovate-oblong, hairy. 
Has. Rocky places on the hills by the Coegariver, Uitenhage. Oct. E.¢ Z.! 
(Herb, Hk. Sd.) 
Stem }~1 foot, terete. Petiole of the radical leaves 1-2 inches long, of the upper 
leaves shorter. Lobes of the leaves 2-3 lines long, 3-1 line broad, entire or bifid. 
Rays of the umbel unequal, the longer 6-12, the shortest 12 lines long, capillary. 
Umbellules of 2-4 flowers, pedicels scarcely } line long. Flowers very small. Ripe 
fruit 1 line long, a little contracted at the margins. Stylopodium depressed ; styles 
very short. Ridges obtuse. Commisure with 2 vitte. 
VII. PTYCHOTIS, Koch. 
Margin of calyx 5-toothed. Petals obovate, bifid, or deeply emargi- 
nate, with a long inflexed point proceeding from the sinus. Fruit 
compressed, ovate or oblong. Mervcarps with 5 equal, filiform, primary 
ridges, the lateral ones marginal. nterstices with single vitte. Car- 
pophore bi-partite. Seeds terete or gibbously convex, flattish in front. 
DC.1.¢. p.107, Endl. Gen. n. 4400. 
Flowers white. Name from mrvxn, @ plait, and ovs, wros, an ear; the petals have 
(usually) a plait in the middle, emitting a little ear or segment. (The European 
species of Ptychotis are characterised by a large gland they bear on the back of the 
petals ; I never saw it in the exotic species. ) 
ANALYSIS OF THE S. AFRICAN SPECIES. 
1, Euptychotis, Involucre wanting. Fruit smooth. 
Segments of leaves ovate-oblo blong ; umbels ° 
culate; fruitoval .. ..°.. rare 
eee RT RT Sed PSE oe (t) Medanerl. 
Segments of leaves linear, acute; umbels sessile; fruit se 
roundish-ovaGiMe ©... 1. hg GS), ... (2) tenuis. 
Segments of leaves filiform; umbels pedunculate ; fruit 
‘ Ovate ... ... hess ee oa s+ vee aes (3) caruifolia. 
. Trachyspermum. u volucre present. it muricated. 
* Stem me tbwvie -»» (4) hispida. 
Stem ; fruit broader than long linet ay fukn oye  diapme, 
__ Sect. 1, Euprycnoris, DO. 1. ¢, 108, Universal involucrum want- 
ing. Fruit smooth, not muricated, (Sp. 1-3) 
1, P. Meisneri (Sond.) ; smooth ; stem erect, branched ; leaves bi- 
pinnate, lobes pinnatifid, segments ovate-oblong or oblong, acute, asper- 
ulous on the margin; umbels Opposite to the leaves, pedunculate ; 
