Apium.] LVI. UMBELLIFERA. |. 813 
Helosciadium leptophyllum, DC. Prod. iv. 105, with the numerous synonyms 
adduced. 
Queensland. Brisbane zw Moreton Bay, F. Muell 
N. S. Wales. a Mes E ne er, n, 48 serait ; Clarence river, Beckler 
The species is com Nu extending to the Southern States of North 
America, and is also found it in eech Africa 
10. SESELI, Linn. 
nen usually prominent. Petals in the Australian ed ovate, 
tapering into an inflexed point, the margins not re ecurved. is ick, sur- 
rounding the base of the style or confluent with it. Fruit eren or oblon ng, 
hot compressed. Carpels with 5 prominent ribs, the lateral oneg close to the 
road commissure, with 1 vitta under each furrow, and usually 2 to the com- 
missure, Carpophore divided or nearly entire. Seed semiterete, straight.— 
Herbs, in the sue species, glabrous, with a perennial stock. Leaves 
y radical, o r twice ee dissected. Umbels terminal, com- 
ch E Bee few. Flower 
The genus Gees a considerable number of species, inhabitants of the northern hem 
KS in the Old World. The Australian papas are both endemic, and though differing in 
some slight pil will shares prove to be really uL of the northern ones. 
Leaf-segments narr Fru ow-oblong, 3 to 4 lines . 1. S. Harveyanus. 
Leaf-segments Mert WW ebe “Fruit shortly bleed Can R lins . 2. S. algens. 
l. S. Harv us, F. Muell. in Hook. Kew Journ. viii. 71, and in 
deg Phil. e. Vict. i. 104. Stems from a thick perennial rootstock, 
erect, glabrous as well as the whole Sr 1 to 14 ft. high. Leaves chiefly 
radical, sometimes as long as the stem, on long petioles, pinnately divided, 
wi linear or gong geen segments — - in. long, the lower ones of 
arpels with 5 yy prominent ribs, the Age rather broad, with 1 vitta 
under each and 2 at the commissure.—Klatt in Linnea, xxix. 715. 
ntains 
E min Sa and subalpine pastures, from the nis tothe Munyong mou > 
F. Muell. in Hook. Kew Journ. n 71, and in Tr 
Phil. Inst. y, ee? 104. Quite glabrous. Stem a thick poemial 
Motstock, short, decumbent or ascending aves chi * radical, np d 
» With broad rhomboidal obovate or cuneate segme deeply : 
acutely toothed or incised, stly under j in. long; stem leaves few, t e 
hing bases of the petioles long and bro mbels of 4 to 6 mp 
rays, Involucres both general and partial, or 3 narrow bracts. Calyx- 
of 
i i ical base o 
carcely conspicuous.  Disk-lobes confluent with the conica 
the styles, Fruit (not seen ripe) very shortly o oblong, each carpel with 5 
“Y prominent ribs.—Klatt in Linnea, xxix. 716. 
