Seseli.] UMBELLIFERZ (Sond.) 549 
ANALYSIS OF THE 8. AFRICAN SPECIES. 
Fruit hairy... 2.0: ere eee cot Sn? sey. AE) 
Fruit tubercula: ge ee ee ee ee es OS arshells 
1. D. aphylla (DC. 1. c. 143); stem erect ; sheaths leafless, or the 
lower ones furnished with simple, entire or petiolate, trifoliolate leaves, 
the segments of which are linear-filiform ; frutt very hispid. Bubon 
aphyllum, Cham. § Schlecht. Linnea, 1389. D.aphylla, £. § Z.1 2224. 
Zeyher, 738, 2685. 
Van. 6, denudata; fruit sparingly hispid. D. Burchellii, E. § Z./ 2225. excl. syn. 
Has. In mountains in the districts of Clanwilliam, Beaufort, Uitenhage, Graaf- 
ge in Caffraria and Little Namaqualand, 1-4000 feet. Oct.July. (Herb. Sd. 
k. D.) 
Root woody. Stem 1-3 feet high, terete, striate, often flexuous, panicled above. 
Leaves of the lower sheaths wanting or filiform, terminating the large sheaths, 
4-1 inch long, or 3-foliolate, with a short filiform petiole, the lobes 4-14 inch long. 
Umbels with 3-9 rays, {-1 inch long. Involucre ovate-lanceolate, whitish-margined. 
Umbellules 6—-12-flowered ; pedicels, when young, shorter than the 5-leaved involu- 
cel, but friitbearing longer. Fruit ovate, 14 lines long, very villous, in var 8. 
sparingly villous or muricate. Mericarps with filiform, obtuse ridges, more evident 
in var, 8, the lateral marginal, equal. Stylopodium short, conical, glabrous. Styles 
_ 2D, Barchellii (Sond.); stem erect ; sheaths leafléss or with simple, 
_ entire or petiolate, trifoliolate leaves, the segments of which are linear- 
filiform ; fruit tuberculate. D. aphylla, B, Burchellui. DC. 1. ¢. 
Has. Near Kapockfontyn, district of Graafreynet, Zeyh. 738. b.; Wonderfontyn 
near Vaalriver, and Magalisberg, Zeyh. 737- Dec.-Feb. (Herb. Hk. D. Sd.) 
Stem, leaves and umbels as in the Perey from which it is distinguished by 
the ripe fruit, not covered with hairs but with evated granules or tubercles. 
XX. SESELI, Linn. 
Margin of calyx 5-toothed.; teeth short, thickish, sometimes oblite- 
rated. Petals ovate, with inflexed points, emarginate or nearly entire. 
Fruit oval or oblong, its transverse section nearly terete, crowned by 
the reflexed styles. Mericarps with 5 prominent, filiform or elongated, 
thick ridges, the lateral marginal and often a little broader. Furrows 
with single vitte, the outer rarely 2-vittate. Commissure 2-vittate, 
- rarely 4-vittate. Seeds semiterete. DO.1.¢. 144. Endl. Gen. n. 4430. 
Biennial or perennial herbs, with pinnatifid or decompound leaves. _Involucre 
scarcely any ; involucel of many leaves. Flowers white, rarely yellow. Name from 
Seycelyous, the Arabic name of an umbelliferous plant. 
ANALYSIS OF THE SOUTH AFRICAN SPECIES, 
Leaves 2-pinnatipartite ; segments incised ; involucel cupuliform... (1) Caffrum. 
Leaves 3-pinnatisect, segments multifid, lobes subulate ; involucel 
Leaves 3-foliolate, leaflets linear-lanceolate ... ... .. +. «+ (2) Natalense. — 
1. 8. (Hippomarathroides) caffrum (Mcisn.! in Hook. Lond. Journ. 
Bot. vol. 2. 533); quite glabrous ; stem terete, stiff, striate, with a few 
branches above the middle; radical leaves aggregated, bipinnatipartite ; 
segments cuneate, pinnatifid and inciso-dentate ; teeth mucronulate ; 
stem-leaves reduced to a large vagina ; involucre 2-leaved or wanting ; 
