Daneus.] UMBELLIFER2 (Sond.) 563 
obsolete. Petals glabrous, ovate, shortly acuminate, furnished exter- 
nally with a longitudinal medial fold, dorsally biconvex, keeled on the 
inside, with an acute, incurved point. Styles 2, broad-based, short ; 
- stigmata terminal, capitellate. Stylopodium depressed. Fruit dorsally 
compressed, lenticular, crowned with the styles, pilose externally, con- 
sisting of 2 mericarps. Mericarps somewhat convex at back, and 
covered with hairs of two kinds, one shorter, the other longer, clavate, 
minutely tuberculate, and patent. ibs none, except the marginal, 
which form a broad, densely villoso-ciliate margin, furnished within 
with a series of oil-cells. Commissure flat, even, glabrous, completely 
joined at the margin. Raphe marginal, at one side. Vitte none (save 
the above-mentioned oil-cells). Carpophore reaching to the middle of 
the mericarps, bipartite from the base, persistent after the fall of the 
mericarps, swelling when moistened (as if gelatinous). <Albwmen rather 
convex at back, flat in front. 
An annual, prostrate, many-stemmed, glaucous herb, glabrous in all parts except 
on the fruit. Root filiform, simple. Stems 1-2 inches long, somewhat branched. 
Leaves (nearly resembling those of a Fumaria), irregularly, subternately cut, the 
radical with longer petioles, about uncial, including the petiole. Lobes capillary, 
obtuse, about 1 line long. Umbels at the base of the stem, at the origins of the 
branches, and also at their apices, solitary, sessile. Umbellules few, 4—6-rayed, 
unequally pedicellate. Pedicels about 1 line long. Involucre and involucels similar 
to the leaves, equalling the flowers. Flowers white, 1 line long. Fruit 1-1} line 
long and wide. Having (vol. 1, p. 241) been compelled to unite the Pappea of 
Eck. & Zey. with Sapindus, we gladly seize the opportunity, now afforded us, of 
dedicating to our valued friend Dr. Lupwic Pappx, Colonial Botanist, the very 
remarkable plant here described, and which constitutes a genus of whose distinctness 
from all others there can be no question. 
1. Pappea Capensis (Sond. & Harv., non E. & Z.!) 
Has. Nieuwejaarsspruit, between the Gariep and Caledon river, near the foot of 
the Witberg, 4-5000 feet. Oct. Zeyher! (Herb. Sond. D.) * 
XXXI. DAUCUS, Linn. 
Margin of calyx 5-toothed. Petals obcordate, with an inflexed lobe, 
exterior usually larger and bifid. Fruit dorsally compressed. Meri- 
carps with bristly, primary ridges ; secondary ridges equal-winged, 
with 1 row of spines. wrrows with single vittze under the secondary 
ridges. Hndl. Gen. n. 4497- 
Herbaceous, often biennial plants. Leaves 2-3-pinnated. Involucra of several 
trifid or pinnatifid leaves ; involucels of many entire or trifid leaflets. Flowers 
white or yellow ; the central one often fleshy and sterile. Aavxos, of Dioscorides, 
is said to be from Saw, to make hot ; from its supposed effect in medicine. 
1. D. Carota (Linn. Spec. 348); stem hispid; leaves 2- or 3- pinnated ; 
leaflets pinnatifid ; lobes lanceolate, cuspidate ; leaflets of the involucre 
pinnated, about the length of the umbel; umbel with a solitary, 
coloured, abortive, central flower, concave when in seed. Smith. Engl. 
Bot. t. 1174. 
Has. Borders of fields and in gardens, probably escaped from culture, Carrot. 
Sub-Order II. Campylospermes (DC. 1. c. 215); albumen involute, 
or marked by a longitudinal furrow or channel on the inner side. (Gen. 
XXXii., XXXV. 
VoL, I, 36* 
