052 UMBELLIFERZ (Sond.) [Cnidium. 
2, 8. angustifolia (E. Mey.); leaves ternately 3-pinnate ; lobes short, 
linear, sulcate beneath ; upper ones smaller. 
Has. Stony hills between Morley and Omtata, Feb., Drege. (Herb. Sd.) 
Stem and branches, flowers and fruit of the preceding, but the petioles are shorter 
1 (2-3 inches long), and the leaves more compound. Lobes of the leaves 3-4 lines 
H, long, 3 line broad, flat above, but sulcate and elevated-nerved beneath. 
XXIII. CNIDIUM, Cusson, 
Margin of the calyx obsolete or with very short teeth. Petals 
obovate or ovate, emarginate, with inflexed points. Transverse section 
of the fruit subcircular. Mericarps with 5 equal, winged ridges ; the 
lateral marginal, Furrows univittate. Commuissure 2-vittate. Carpo- 
phore bipartite. Seed semicylindrical, flattened in front. DO: 1. ¢. Dp. 
152. Endl. Gen. n. 4436. Heteroptilis, H. Mey. Meisn. in Hk. Lond, Jour, 
Bot. vol. 2, p. 534. 
Decumbent or erect, perennial or suffruticose herbs. Leaves variable, mostly 
pinnatifid or multifid, Umbels terminal or lateral. Flowers white or rosy. Cnidium 
i was the ancient name of Orach, a potherb, 
* ANALYSIS OF THE SOUTH AFRICAN SPECIES. 
eaves tripinnatisect or ternately decompound... ... |... (1) suffruticosum. 
1. C. suffruticosum (Cham. & Schl.! Linn, 3, 387) ; quite glabrous ; 
stem prostrate or erect, striate, branched ; leaves fleshy, bipinnatisect 
1 Thunb.! Prod. 50. Fl, Cap. 253. Sium patulum, Thunb. | Fl. Cap, 26 r. 
Raila! 
: Rah | 3 ~ mantha Capensis, Burm. Fl. Cap. p. 7. Zeyh. 2686. 
= 
| __ Suffruticose, stem and branches terete, or the latter subangulate, subflexuose, © 
_ 4-1 foot or more long. Leaves petiolate, duplicate-pinnate, pinnze oblong, bluntish, 
_ ‘Meised, Petiole about as long as the leaf. Umbels with 9-16 rays, 3-1 inch long, 
Leaves of involucre and involucel lanceolate, short. Flowers white. Ripe fruit 
_ 2-24 lines long and broad. Stylopodium minute, conical, shorter than the reflexed ‘a 
styles. Wings of the mericarps subequal, or 1 or 2 of the dorsal wings somewhat 
_ smaller. The whole plant is usually glaucous, rarely green ; the lobes of the leaves 
vary—obtuse, acute or acuminate, approximate or remote. nae 
peduncles minutely downy ; lower leaves rentform-cordate, nearly as long 
or a little longer than the broad petiole, duplicate-serrate or toothed ; 
upper leaves gradually smaller, 3-lobed, with entire or toothed lobes ; 
eee ps aoa ne involucre 1—2-leaved ; involucel few- 
eaved ; frui rous, roundish, win Feeniculum ? Kraussianum, 
Meisn. ! in Hook, Lond. Journ. Bot. ns ge 532. 
Van. 8, elatior ; downy ; lower leaves rdate-acute, mucronately- twi 
than the petiole ; upper ones bes 3- partite, wu romped cagee | tes 
Var. y, glabrata; lower leaves cordate or reniform-cordate } upper ones subcor- 
