538 UMBELLIFERZ (Sond.) [Pimpinella. 
tracted from the sides. Mericarps with 5 filiform ribs. Vallecule with 1 elevated 
vitta ; the commissure 2 vittate. Styles diverging. It varies with glabrous stem 
and leaves, hispidulous or minutely muricated fruit. 
5. P. didyma (Sond.) annual; stem decumbent, branched, gla- 
brous ; leaves bi- or subtripinnate ; segments filiform ; umbels opposite 
to the leaves, pedunculate, with 10-16 rays; fruit didymous, broader 
than long. Carpophyllum Jacquini, «, herb. Drege ! 
Has. Woods near Tulbaghskloof, Nov. Zeyh. 730. (Herb. Hk. Sd.) 
Stem and leaves as in the preceding, but well distinguished by the many-rayed 
umbels and didymous fruit. Involucre of umbel pinnatifid. Rays 6—7 lines long, 
sometimes a little scabrid. Leaves of involucel 2-4, subulate, shorter than the 
pedicels. Flowers very small. Fruit } line long, } line broad, densely muricated, 
much contracted from the sides. Mericarps roundish-ovate, with 5 bluntish ribs. 
Stylopodium and styles very short. 
VII. CARUM. Linn. 
Margin of calyx obsolete or nearly so. Petals obovate or elliptic, 
emarginate, with an inflexed point. Stylopodiwm depressed or shortly 
conical; styles divaricate. Fruit ovate or oblong, contracted from the 
sides. Mericarps with 5 filiform, equal ribs, the lateral marginating. 
Furrows with 1 vitta ; commisure bi-vittate. Carpophore free, forked 
or bipartite. Seed terete-convex, flattish in front. Koch. Umb. 121. 
Nees. ab. Es. gen. fl. germ. fase. 26,7. 15. Endl. gen. n. 4406. 
Biennial or perennial, glabrous herbs, much branched. Leaves pinnate, seg- 
ments or leaflets, multifid. Both the involucra and involucels variable, often want- 
ing. Flowers white. Name from Caria, in Asia Minor ; the native country of the 
Caraway. 
1, C. Capense (Sond.) root fleshy, stem branched, radical leaves 
tripinnate, leaflets filiform, setaceously acuminated, fastigiate ; cauline 
leaves sheathy, without limb, Apium, radice crassa, etc. Burm. Afr. 
t. 72, f. 1. Anethum Capense, Thunb! Jl. cap. 262. Feeniculum Capense, 
DO. 1. ¢. 142. Chamarea Capensis et Caffra, E. & Z.! 2220, 2221, 
Drege. 7635. Zeyher, 736, 739, 2682. 
Has. Flats between Constantia and Hotthld. ; karroolike places and mountains 
in the distr. of Stellenbosch, Albany, Uitenhage, Caffraria, Namaqualand, &c. 
Apr—July. (Herb. Thunb. Hk. D. Sd.) 
Root solitary or geminate, oblong, aromatic, called by the colonists ‘ Fenkelwor-. 
tel.” Radical leaves aggregated ; petiole 2-3 inches, leaf 3-5 inches long ; the two 
primary lateral branches about twice shorter than the middle pinnz ; the ultimate 
pinnulz opposite with tridichotomously divided, numeroys, setaceous lobes, 1-2 lines 
long. Umbel 4-7 rayed ; rays unequal, 3-1} inch long. Umbellules 8-12 flower- 
ed, pedicels often violaceous, 2-4 lines longer than the involucel. Fruit ovate, If 
line long, ovate, much contracted at the sides. 
Margin of the calyx obsolete. Petals obovate, emarginate, with the 
point long and inflexed. Frwit contracted laterally, ovate, crowned 
with the reflexed style, whose bases are much swollen, smooth or hairy. 
Mericarps with 5 filiform, equal ridges, the lateral marginal, Furrows 
with many vitte ; Commissure 2 vittate ; carpophore free, bifid. Seed 
gibbous, flattish in front. DC. 1. ¢ Nees. ab Esend. 1. ¢. n. 16. Endl. gen. 
n. 4410. 
