Pewcedanwm.]  UMBELLIFERE (Sond.) 555 
Var. B, lanceolatum ; leaflets lanceolate, mucronate ; umbels 10-24-rayed. P. 
virgatum, Cham. § Schlecht.! Linnea I. 392. P. frutescens et lanceolatum, E. Mey. 
Dregea virgata, EH. § Z./ 2241, Zeyh. 2691. 
Has. Hills and mountains in the districts of Uitenhage, Albany, George, Graaf- 
aes and Caffraria, and near Port Natal. March—June. (Herb. reg. Berol. Hk. - 
Shrub several feet high, branches terete, sulcate-striate, yellowish-brown, few- 
leaved on the upper part. “Lower leaves larger ; leaflets in var. a 14-2 inches long, 
3-1 inch broad; in var. 8 4-1 inch long, 1-2 or 3 lines wide, sessile or shortly 
petiolate, penninerved, entire, rarely 2 or 3-lobed. Petiole adnate to the back of 
the 4-6 lines broad sheaths, angulate, striate, its ramifications articulated with the 
rachis. Upper leaves much smaller and less divided, often reduced to sheaths 
without limb. Rays of umbel in var. a 1-2 inches, in var. 8 1-14 inches, long. 
Leaves of involucre (5-10) lanceolate, 4-8 lines long. Involucel similar, twice 
shorter than the pedicels, Flowers yellow. Fruit 3 lines long, 2 lines broad, quite 
flat on the dilated margin; the 3 dorsal ribs filiform, elevated. Stylopodium and 
styles very short. 
2. P. abbreviatum (E. Meyer) ; fruticose; leaves pinnate; leaflets 
lanceolate, mucronate, attenuated at the base, subfalcate, with revolute 
margins, sessile, the lower ones petiolate, binate or ternate ; wmbels 
with 4-6 rays; fruit elliptical, emarginate at both ends. 
Has. Camdeboosberg, stony places, 4-5000 ft. Jan.—Drege. (Herb. Sd.) 
Allied to P. Capense, but a much smaller shrub with smaller leaves ; the leaflets 
4-6 lines long, 1 line broad ; the rachis articulate. Involucre and involucel of few 
lanceolate leaves. Rays of umbel 8-12 lines, of umbellules 14-2 lines long. Fruit 
243 lines long. Be 
3. P. Ecklonianum (Sond.); fruticose ; leaves pinnate; leaflets cwne- 
ate, 3-5-dentate or incised, with revolute margins, teeth acute, spreading; 
umbels 8-10-rayed ; fruit obovate. Dregea montana, E. & Z.! 2242. 
Has. On the Winterhoekberge, near the Elandriver, Uitenhage, March. 2. § Z. 
Zeyher, 2689. (Herb. Hk., Sd.) 
About 1-14 foot high. Stem often a little ro Leaves short petiolate, 1 inch 
long, rhachis articulate ; leaflets 4-6 lines, 1-14 line broad ; the lateral teeth 3-1 
line long, often recurved. Involucre and involucel of 4-6 small leaves. Rays of 
umbel 4-6 lines ; of umbellules 1 line long. Flowers yellow. Fruit 2 lines long. 
Dorsal ribs filiform, elevated. 
4, P. striatum oa fruticose ; leaves rigid, tripinnatisect ; lobes 
linear-subulate, mucronulate, sulcate ; umbels 6-8-rayed ; fruit elliptic. 
Seseli. striatum, Thunb.! Fl. Cap. 259. Dregea collina, E. & Z.1 2243. 
Has. Near Buffeljagdrivier, Mundt. in herb., E.G Z.; Rietkuil and Kafferkuils-. 
rivier, and between Zwarteberg and Rivierszondereinde. Zeyher, 2684 et 2682. 
Sept.—Dec. (Herb. Hk. Sd.) : 
_ A dwarf shrub, leafy, with green or purplish striate branches. Leaves with a 
very short petiole, adnate at the back of the broad, whitish-margined vagina, about 
1 inch long, 2—3-pinnatisect ; segments 2—3-partite; lobes 1 line long, often recurved, 
sulcate as well as the articulate rhachis. Uppermost leaves without limb. Involucre 
and involucels of 4-5 subulate leaves. Rays of umbel 4-6 lines long. Flowers yel- 
lowish-green. Ripe fruit unknown. nas 
Sect. 2. Perennial herbs. Stylopodium depressed. PEUCEDANUM, 
Koch,, (Sp. 4-13.) : setie 
5. P. capillaceum (Thunb.' Fl. Cap. 257); stem erect, terete, sul- 
cate-striate, naked, a little branched; radical leaves long-petiolate, 
