550 UMBELLIFERA (Sond.). [Polemannia. 
involucel cupuliform, semi-5-6-parted, with acute, deciduous lobes : 
rays of umbel elongated ; pedicels 2-3 times longer than the involucel ; 
fruit smooth. 
Has. Near Port Natal, Krauss, 403; on hills near Adow, Uitenhage, and near 
Philipstown, Ceded Territory, Ecklon ; on the Kowieriver, Albany, Zeyher, n. N. n. 
E. Umbell. 4.. Aug.—Oct. (Herb. D. Meisn. Sd.) 
Root woody. Stem 1-2 feet high. Radical leaves petiolate. Petiole as long or a 
little shorter than the leaf, canaliculate above, striate-suleate beneath. Leaves about 
3 inches long and broad, the segments or leaflets 6-12 lines long, obovate or ovate. 
Rays of umbel 2-3 inches long. Umbellules 12-16-flowered. Flowers white. Stylo- 
podium depressed. Styles spreading. Ripe fruit unknown. 
2. §. (Euseseli) Natalense (Sond.); quite glabrous ; stem terete, 
fistular, multistriate, branched above the middle ; radical and the 
lower stem-leaves petiolate, trifoliolate; leaflets linear-lanceolate, 3-ner- 
ved, quite entire; upper leaves quite entire, linear; involucre with 4—5 
unequal leaves ; leaves of involucel distinct; fruit smooth. 
> = ; On the Tableland near Port Natal, Krauss, 433; Gueinzius, 535- (Herb. 
_ Perennial herb, 2-3 feet hi easily known the trifoliolate leaves. Stem 
finely striated. Sapiens efi Phase unec ee middle somewhat loliber, about 
2 inches long, 2 lines broad, on a petiole of the same length. Cauline leaves few. 
Flowers white. Rays of umbel (6-10) unequal, the longer 1-1} inches. Le of 
involucre setaceous, acuminated, 4-1} lines long. Involucel of 4-5 subulate leaflets. 
Fruit, when half ripe, oblong, with 5 equal, filiform ridges. Stylopodium depressed. 
Styles short. 
3. 8. (Euseseli) asperum (Sond,) ; glabrous ; stem terete, striate, 
branched ; leaves sub-3-pinnatisect ; segments multifid ; lobes abbreviate, 
subulate, sulcate above ; involucre and involucel 4-6-leaved ; pedupcles, 
Laem as well as the fruit, subscabrous. Sim asperum, Thunb: ! Fl. 
ap. 210. 
Has. Sea shore near Capetown, Thunb., Zeyh. March, (Herb. Thunb. Sd.) 
Stem 1-14 ft., erect. _ Leaves petiolate, the lower larger, 3-4 inches long. Ulfti- 
mate lobes 1-2 lines long, acute. Cauline leaves much smaller. Rays of umbel 
8-12, $-1 inch long. Leaves of involucre and involucel 1-2 lines long, with scarious 
margins. Flowers white. Fruit 1 line long, nearly terete, a little compressed from 
‘the sides. Mericarps with prominent, obtuse ridges, with the vallecule muriculate, 
scabrous, at length nearly smooth, Valleculw 1-vittate. Commissure with 2 vittee. 
XXI. POLEMANNIA, FE. & Z. 
Margin of calyx shortly 5-toothed, permanent. Petals elliptical, 
entire, with acuminate, inflexed point. J ruit oblong, its transverse 
section nearly cylindrical, crowned with the depressed-conical stylopo- 
dium and short. styles. Mericarps with 5 prominent, obtuse ridges, 
the lateral marginal a little larger. Furrows with 1, commissure with 
2, vitte. Carpophore bi ite. Seed semicylindrical, flattened in front. 
E. § Z.! Enum, 347. Endl. Gen. n. 4431. 
Glabrous shru i i i 
wedge-shaped, hi rd Or undivided, mechan ding ormately pinnate leaves, oad ahi 
flowers. Named after P. H, Polemann of Capetown, 
ANALYSIS OF THE SPECIES, 
Leaves tripartite or 3-lobed ; umbels many-ra grossularizefo: 
Leaves triternate-bipinnatifid ; umbela teittined re oi O verticillata. = 
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