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Lichtensteinia.| | UMBELLIFER2 (Sond.) 543 
irregularly serrated ; serratures setaceously cuspidate ; fruit oblong, a 
little compressed. Hermasrudissima, Rochb. in Spreng. syst. 4.118. Sieb. 
Flor. Cap. eas. n. 213. E. & Z.! 2206, 
Var. 8. pinnatifida; leaves smooth, pinnatifid-lobed. 
Has. On mountains near Capetown, and near Clasenbosch and Constantia. 
Jan.—Feb. (Herb. reg. Berol. Hk. D. Sd.) 
Stem fistulose, 3 feet and more in height, sulcate, glabrous, branched. Petioles 
very large, 3-5-inches long. Leaves 3-1 foot long, 4~9 inches broad or smaller, 
much-veined, and with large branched middle nerve ; the margin with a A 
often 4-1 inch long serratures, terminated by a longish mucro. Umbel many-ray : 
Leaves of involuére (cire. 10) 3-4 lines long. Umbellules about 10~12-flowered ; 
pedicels a little longer than the involucel. Flowers white. Fruit when ripe 5 lines 
long, 2 lines broad. Stylopodium conical. Mericarps with § filiform ridges. 
2. L. latifolia (E. & Z.! 2207); leaves shortly petiolate, orbicular or - 
obovate, coriaceous, smooth and glabrous, undivided or 3-lobed, lobes 
obovate, margined with short tallous-mucronate teeth ; fruit ovate, 
nearly terete. 
Has. Among shrubs on the Van Stadensriviersberge, Uitenhage. Feb. £. ¢ Z./ e 
(Herb. Sd.) ms 
Habit of the preceding, distinguished by the minutely-toothed leaves and fruit. 
Petioles 1-2 inches long. ‘Leaves 8-12 inches long, or smaller, with prominent 
nerves and veins. Umbels as in L. lacera, or with somewhat longer rays. Umbel- 
lules 12-16-flowered. Calyx-teeth acute, persistent. Fruit 3 lineslong, 
8. L. trifida (Cham. & Schl.! 1. c. 396); leaves long-petiolate, trifid 
to the base, rarely 2 or 4-fid; segments lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, 
toothed, glabrous, rarely hairy, coriaceous ; fruit ovate-oblong. 2. ¢ Z.! 
2208. L. runcinata, FE. Mey. in Herb. Drege. ; 
Van. B, palmata; leaves 3-5-fid, the middle segment trifid. L. palmata, DC. 1.c. * hee 
138, (with hairy leaves). 2 Oe (Coy : 
Var. , pinnatifida; leaves 3-fid, the segments pinnatifid. Hav. Me Wd 
- ‘Hap. Var. a, in Schurfdeberg, Mundt. ¢ Maire ; Paarlberg, Drege; Zwarteberg, Moe } 6 
E.¢Z.; var. B, Piquetberg, Drege, 7633; var. 7, Cape Flats, 2g Z. Jan,=Feb. . efi 
(Herb. reg. Berol. Hk. Sd. : : : 
Stem 2-5 feet, striate. Petioles 4—6 inches long, 6~9 lines broad. Radical 
leaves 5-10 inches long, the ages decurrent on the petiole, the middle seg- 
ment longer, 2-3 inches broad, shortly and callously toothed, rarely incised or 
inciso-dentate, acute or acuminate, rarely obtuse, entire or 3-lobed. One of the 
“art leaves often undivided, obovate. Umbels many-rayed, nearly the same as 
in ZL. lacera, and also the fruit, but the latter is sometimes a little smaller and more 
ovate. The var. y has narrower segments of leaves (4-8 lines broad) with uncial. 
or shorter, acutely-toothed, horizontal, lateral lobes. nen 
_« & I. crassijuga (E. Meyer) ; leaves longish-petiolate, trifid to the 
~» base; segments linear, bi or tri-pinnatisect ; lobes lanceolate-acuminate. 
ee Tan: I : - Il i. Feb. D ‘inne. 7 ‘orb. Hk. Sd. 4 
Petioles 4—5 inches long, 4-6 oped poced 6-10 inches long. Segments 
2 lines broad, with horizontally-spreading marginal lobes, and short, often minute, - 
subulate teeth. Lobes pinnately divided or simple, 2-4 lines long. Umbels with — 
6-9 rays, 2-24 inches long. Inyolucre and involucels as in the preceding. 
when young, ovate. Sar ox 
5. L. interrupta (E. Mey.); leaves petiolate, ternate; segments decur- 
sively and interruptedly pinnate ; leaflets ovate, unequally inciso-serrate 
or subpinnatifid, glabrous ; wmbels 8-12-rayed ; fruit roundish ovate ; 
