ao wa ee. 4 
Coniwm.] if et UMBELLIFERZ (Sond.) 567 
¢ leaves, glabrous above. Thunb. l.c. H. & Z.! 2262. H. quercifolia, 
E. & Z.! 2263. Bupleurym quinguedentatum, Thunb. Prod. 50. 
Has. Top of Tablemountain, ‘Thunb. ; near Tulbagh, and on Zwarteberg, near 
Gnadenthal, &. § Z.; between Nieuwekloof and Ylandskloof, Drege. Dec.—Feb. 
(Herb. Hk. Sd.) tes 
Near the foregoing, but the leaves are not radical, but rise from the stem, and 
.. are aggregated on shorter petioles, more oblong and attenuated at the base, 8-16 
lines long, 3-8 lines broad ; the stem is filiform, naked, simple or with a few short — 
branches, and the subglobose umbels smaller. The involucre of the umbel is 4-5- 
leaved. Flowers white. In H. quinquedentata, E. & Z., the margins of the leaves 
are more revolute, and the teeth acute or sharp; in H. quercifolia, E. & Z., the 
margins are not revolute, and the teeth bluntish. 
5. H. ciliata (Linn. fil. Suppl. 436) ; leaves radieal, petiolate, ovate 
or obovate, obtuse, ciliated, glabrous above, whitish-tomentose beneath ; 
stem glabrous, a little branched, leafless. Thunb.! l. c. Burm, Afr. t. 
72, f.3. HG Z.12258. A. Uitenhagensis, H. & Z.! 2259. 
Has. Mountains, Hottholld., near Somerset and Vanstadensriviersberge, Thunb. 
E. & Z.; Dutoitskloof, Drege. Jan.-Feb. (Herb. Sd. Hk.) 
“Stem 1-2 feet. Leaves 2-3 inches long, 1-1} inch broad, shortly ciliate. Petiole 
shorter or as long as the leaf. Rays of umbel {-1 inch, twice longer than the many- 
leaved involucre. Flowers white. Fruit nearly 2 lines in length. 
0-} XXXV. CONIUM, Linn. 
Margin of the calya obsolete. Petals obcordate, submarginate, with 
a short inflexed point. Fruit ovate, compressed from the sides. Meri- 
carps with 5 prominent, equal, subundulated or undulately-crenulated 
ribs; lateral ones marginating. Ywrrows with many strie, but without 
vittze. Carpophore bifid at the apex. Seed with a deep, narrow furrow, 
and as if it were complicate. Koch, Umb. 135, f- 49- Endl. Gen. n. 4532. 
Biennial, poisonous herbs. Stem terete, branched. Leaves decompound. Invo- 
lucre of 3-5 leaves ; involucels dimidiate. Flowers white, all fertile. Name said to 
be from, kovia, dust. 
1. C. cherophylloides (E. & Z.! 2264); stem at the base, as well 
as the petiole and its primary ramification, scabrid by short hairs ; leaves 
3-4-pinnate, glabrous; segments deeply pinnatifid, lacinule oblong or 
jinear-acute ; involucre of 4—6 short leaves ; fruit with very prominent, 
‘subundulated, not crenulated ridges. Sesela cheerophylloides, Thunb. 
Has. Woods in the districts of Albany and Uitenhage, E. ¢ Z.; Kilipplaatriver 
and Nieuweveld, between Rhinosterkop and G: ein, 3-4000 ft., Drege ; Cale- 
donriver and near the Gariep, Burke § Zeyher, n. 745- Oct.-Nov. (Herb. Thunb. 
ar Eowyn round, striated, hollow. eugunges of NA maculatum ; 
radical « large. Segments ovate, incised, or dee innatifid ; lacinule 
- entire, sordid eres one or a few serratures. Umbels with ho rays, Rapin 
ze 
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‘long, a little scabrous at the apex. Involucels of few short, submembranaceous 
1 "Flowers white. Fruit when ripe 2 lines long, with pale ridges. Stylopo- 
dium depressed. Styles short, divergent. There is a variety with more dissect leaves 
by E. & Z, and Dr. Pappe on the Zwarteberg near Caledon. 
Drege n. 7636, 7639, 7644 are imperfect specimens of new or undescribed umbelli- 
ferous plants. ‘ 
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