Ptychotis.} UMBELLIFERE (Sond.) 537 
leaflets of involucel few, subulate, as long or shorter than the pedicels, 
persistent ; fruit oval. Petroselinum humile, Meisn.! in Hook, Lond. 
Journ. Bot. vol. ii. p. 531+ 
Has. In the plains near Port Natal, Krauss, 418 ; Drege, 9545. Oct. (Herb. 
Meisn. D, Sd.) 
Root thin, perpendicular. Stem }-1 foot high, striated. Leaves petiolate ; petiole 
at the base with a white-margined sheath; limb subtriangular, about 2-3 inches 
long and broad ; leaflets ovate like those of Anthriscus Cerefolium. Umbel with 5-6 
rays, shorter than the peduncle. Pedicels 2 lines long. Petals deeply emarginate. 
Fruit « line long, broadest in the middle. Stylopodium short. Styles reflexed. Com- 
missure with 2 vitte. 
2. P. tenuis (Sond.) annual, glabrous ; stem erect, dichotomously 
branched ; leaves bipinnate, lobes deeply pinnatifid, segments linear, 
acute ; umbels opposite to the leaves, sessile; involucel 1-2 leafed, 
much shorter than the smooth pedicels; fruit rowndish-ovate, as well 
as the ovary quite smooth. 
Has. Hills between Buffeljagdriver and Rietkuil, Oct.-Nov. Zeyh. 2672. (Herb. 
Sd. 
a small herb about a span high. Radical leaves on longer petioles. Segments 
linear-filiform, 1-1} line long. Umbel with 4-5 rays, }-inch long. Pedicels 13 
line long. Fruit nearly 1 line long and broad, contracted from the sides. Stylo- 
podium minute, conical. Styles very short. Vallicule with one elevated vitta 
each. Commissure, 2-vittate. 
3. P. caruifolia (Sond.) annual, glabrous ; stem erect, dichotomous- 
ly much branched ; leaves cut into numerous filiform segments : um- 
bels opposite to the leaves, pedunculate ; involucel 1-2-leaved, much 
shorter than the scabrid pedicels ; ovary muricated on the ridges ; fruit 
ovate, smooth. 
Hap. Near Riebekkasteel, Nov. Zeyher, 729. (Herb. Hk. Sd.) 
Root whitish. Stem 1-24 feet, terete, purplish and glaucous, with many spread- 
2-3 lines long, ents, 3 : t 
uncle, Pedicels 2 lines long. Fruit a little compressed on the sides; 1 line 
; jum subdepressed. Styles short, spreading. Mericarps with § fili- 
foam sak Volieon 1 vittate ng agian Bo with 2 vite. 
2 partite. 
Sect. 2. Tracuysrermum, DC. 1. c. Universal involucre com- 
posed of a few linear entire or trifidleaves. Fruit muricated. (Sp. 4-5.) 
4, P. hispida (Sond.) annual ; stem decumbent or erect, branched, 
as well as the leaves and peduncles scabrid or hispidulous ; leaves sub- 
tripinnate, segments filiform ; umbels opposite to the leaves, peduncu- 
late, with 5-8 rays ; fruit ovate, acute. Sium hispidum, Thunb.! fl. 
c. 261. Trachyspermum rigens, E. § Z.! 2197. (excl. synon.) Phyma- 
tis cyminoides, E. Meyer. Herb Un. Itin.n. 212. Zeyh. 2697, 2673. 
Drege, 4945. 
Has. Sandy places near Capetown ; in Hottenthold. near Tulbagh, Hassaquas- 
kloof, and ott the Zwartkopsriver. Sept.-Jan. (Herb. Th. Hk. Dea) 
Root long, subsimple. Stem several inches, or 1-14 foot, terete ; branches stri- 
ated. Leaves 2-, or nearly 3-pinnate, the radical ones longer, petiolate, 1-3 inches 
long. Segments 1-2 lines long, setaceous. Leaves of involucre usually pinnated or 
compound, Rays of umbel 4-1 inch. Involucel few leaved, twice shorter than the 
pedicels. Petals white, Fruit 1 line long, when ripe nearly as broad as long, con- 
