540 UMBELLIFERZ (Sond.) [Rhyticarpus. 
_. Has. Marshy spots near Zeekoevalle , in the bed of the Zwartkopsriver, and in 
similar localities in the district of Albany, and near Port Natal. Feb.—Mar. (Herb. 
Thunb. Hk. D. Sd.) 
Stem 1-3 feet high. The root called Tandpynwortel (Tooth-ache-root) by the 
colonists, is renowned for its allaying tooth-ache when held in the mouth or chewed. 
Pappe, Fl. Cap. meed. 18. 
XI. RHYTICARPUS, Sond. 
Margin of calyx 5-toothed. Petals obovate, entire, involute, the 
apex acute or acuminate, Fruit roundish, laterally compressed, crowned 
with the conical stylopodium and the short styles. Mericarps rugose, 
with 5 filiform ridges, the lateral marginal ; furrows with single, com- 
missure with 2 vitte. Carpophore bipartite. Seeds convex, flattish in 
front. 
Perennial, glabrous herbs, Stem erect, glaucous. Petioles ternately branched. 
Leaves pinnatisect, lobes cuneate or subulate ; ramifications of petiole articulate. 
Umbels compound. Involucres and involucels of many small leaves. Flowers yel- 
lowish, moneecious or dicecious. Name from puis, a wrinkle, and xapmos, fruit. 
ANALYSIS OF THE SPECIES. 
Leaf-lobes cuneate, incised or toothed... .. oo 4a) Pagores. 
Rowe Ptg. tds, farvwed a eke 
1. R. rugosus (Sond.) ; radical leaves 2-3 pinnatisect, lobes cuneate, 
incised or toothed, or oblong-lanceolate, trifid, or quite entire; cauline 
linear-subulate ; fruit roundish - ovate, laterally contracted, rugose, 
Conium rugosum, Thunb.! Fl. Cap. 253. Sium panwculatum, Thunb. ! 
lc. 261. Trinia Vitenhagensis, EB. & Z.! 2193. Lepisma paniculatum, 
L. Mey. (ea parte) Zeyh. 2671. 
Has. On the fields near the Zwartkopsriver, FE. & Z.! Zondagsriver, Enon, and 
on the Giftberg, Drege; in the Hantum mountains, Thunberg. Nov.—June. Herb. 
Thunb. Hk. Sd) 
Root blackish. Stem 2-3 feet high, terete, striate ; pruinose, spotted with purple, 
much branched above. Leaves glaucous, much aggregated at the base of the stem. 
Petioles 2-4 inches long, terete, ternately compound. Larger leaflets generally 
trifid, lobes 2-3 lines broad, incised or acutel 3-4-toothed ; other leaflets with lan- 
ceolate lobes, 1 line broad ; those of the upper leaves more distant, thicker, subulate, 
carinate, 3-1 line long. Umbels on longish peduncles, with 6-8 glaucous rays I-14 
as the stylopodium. Fruit 14 lines long and broad, when ripe, didymous. Siwm 
paniculatum, Thunb. / is the flowering, Conium rugosum the fruit-bearing plant 
2, R. Ecklonis (Sond.) ; lower leaves biternate ; lobes elongate, 
terete, acute, sulcate, rigid; the terminal longer ; upper leaves trifid 
or undivided ; leaves of involucre and involucel short, subulate ; fruit 
broad-ovate, compressed, rugose. T'rinia Swellendammensis, E. d: Z.! 
2194. Bupleurum acerosum, EB. Meyer. 
Has. In Karro, between Kochmanskloof and uritzriv : ; : 
enthal, Drege. Oct—Nov. (Herb. Hk. Sd.) ae pete soso asp 
Near! y allied to the preceding, but easily distinguished by the terete, striate-sulcate 
ramifications of the terete petiole. Umbels with 5~7 ra: - involucre and involucel 
4-5-leaved ; flowers and fruit as in the foregoing. This comes near Bupleurwm 
difforme, but I never found a leaf or phyllodium without lobes, 
