Peucedanum.| UMBELLIFERZ (Sond.) 553 
date or truncate at the base, or ovate-cuneate, sharply-serrated, rarely divided ; stem 
a glabrous ; peduncle and rays of umbel downy. Pimpinella cordata, 
. Mey. 
Has. In the plains near Port Natal, Krauss, 140; var. B, near Port Natal, 
Gueinzius; var. y, between Omtendo and Omsamculo, Drege. Noyv.-Feb. (Herb. 
Meisn. Hook. D. Sd.) 
Root fusiform, simple. Stem terete, faintly striated, 1-14 foot high, branched 
above the middle. Petiole of the lower leaves 3-2 lines broad, 2-1 inch long. 
Leaves 14-2 inches long and broad, with a deep and broad sinus ; the upper ones 
3-fid, with cuneate lobes. Rays of umbel nearly 1 inch long, 3 times longer than 
the linear involucral leaves. Pedicels 3 lines long. Flowers white. Half-ripe 
fruit with winged ribs, as in C. suffruticosum. Furrows I-vittate ; commissure with 
2 vitte. Styles longer than the conical, short stylopodium. Var. 8 is 3 feet or 
more high ; the lower leaves 2-24 inches long, 18-20 lines broad, with equal, acute 
teeth ; the upper leaves with elongated, entire, or toothed segments ; the uppermost 
reduced to sheaths, without lamina. Umbels 16-20-rayed. Young fruit glabrous, 
ripe unknown. Var. ¥ is 1-14 foot high, glabrous, but puberulous at the upper 
part of the stem and on the rays of umbel. ‘Lower leaves as in var. a. and 8. on 
very long or short, broad or narrow, petioles, duplicate-toothed or subserrate ; the 
upper smaller and gradually narrower, serrate, rarely 3-fid, with linear lobes. 
Umbel with 12-16 rays. Flowers white. Ripe fruit unknown. 
XXIV. LEVISTICUM, Koch. 
enti 
each furrow, and 2-4 in the commissure. Carpophore bipartite. Seed 
- convex on the back, and flattish in front. Koch. Umb. 101. f. 41. Endl. 
Gen. n. 4453. Species of Ligusticum, Lannceus. 
Strong, perennial, smooth and glabrous herbs. Stems erect, terete. Leaves 
pinnately divided ; leaflets obovate-cuneated, toothed. Involucre and involucels of 
- many leaves. Flowers yellow or yellowish. Name from levo, to assuage ; said to 
relieve flatulency. 
1. L. grandiflorum (Sond.); radical leaves bipinnate ; lower stem- 
leaves pinnate ; segments pinnatifid or inciso-lobed ; lobes obovate or 
suborbiculate-cuneate, rugose, much veined and serrate-toothed ; um- 
 bels with 5-8 elongated rays ; involucre and involucel 4—6-leaved ; 
~ fruit with short wings, the lateral ones scarcely broader. Stum gran- 
diflorum, Thunb.! Fl. Cap. 260. Bubon pimpinellifolium, E. § Z.! 2251. 
‘Has. Stony places in Zwartland, Thunberg, Wallich ; Riebeckkasteel, Zeyh. 733; 
Vierentwintig Rivieren, Worcester, E.§Z. Nov. (Herb. Thunb. Hk. D. Sd.) 
Radical and lower leaves 1 foot and more long. Pinnule or segments 2-1 inch 
A often rhomboid, more or less lobed or pinnatifid-incised ; on the whole margin 
it rege ee mucronate teeth. Stem branched, striate, pruinose, 2 feet or more in 
height. Umbels terminal. Rays unequal, 1-3 inches, sometimes 4 foot in length. 
Leaves of inyolucre and involucel ovate, acuminate. Umbellules 10—12-flowered. 
Petals 1 line long, reddish-veined. Calyx-teeth short, acute. Stylopodium conical, 
with short, spreading styles. Fruit 4-5 lines long, 2 lines broad. Vallecule with 
1 large vitta. Commissure 2-vittate. The fruit agrees well with that of Ligusticum 
Scoticum, but is a little broader, and is distinguished by the solitary vitte and the 
central, not marginal, raphe. 
XXV. PEUCEDANUM, Koch. 
Margin of the calyx 5-toothed or nearly obsolete. Petals obovate, 
Margin of calyx obsolete or with short teeth. Petals incurved, 
with an acute point. Jrwit compressed from the back, having — 
2 wings on each side. Mericarps with 5 winged ribs; the wings of | 
the lateral ribs usually twice the breadth of the others ; vitte rin 
