188 LXIII. UMBELLIFERZ. 
without vitte, their 5 ribs nearly filiform, the dorsal and 
lateral usually obsolete, the intermediate confluent.— #7. Cap. 
li. p. 526. 
Small herbs or half-shrubby plants. _Umbel simple, commonly 3-flowered, 
2 of the flowers sterile; flowers sessile or pedicelled, white. Involucre in 
flower 4-leaved.—17 Cape species, dispersed. 
2. SANICULA, Linn. 
Calyx-tube bristly, its margin 5-cleft, leafy. Petals erect, 
conniving, obovate, with inflexed tips. Fruit subglobose, not 
spontaneously separating; carpels with obsolete ridges, and 
many vitte, covered with hooked bristles; carpophore indis- — 
tinct.—Fl. Cap. ii. p. 533. 
Perennials. 8. Ewropea, Linn., a common wood-plant in the Northern 
hemisphere, occurs in woods in many places. Leaves radical, palmate- 
parted, the lobes 3-fid, sharply toothed; flowers sessile, in umbellules, 
white or reddish. 
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3. ALEPIDEA, La Roche. 
Calyx-tube glabrous or roughly tubercled ; lobes erect, leafy. 
Petals inflexed. Fruit ovate, somewhat laterally compressed, 
the cross-section nearly circular; carpels without vitte, 
having 5 filiform or raised inflated ribs; carpophore at length 
free, simple.— Fl. Cap. 1. p. 534. 
Glabrous herbs, natives of the Cape.—2 species, both Eastern. Leaves 
chiefly radical, oblong, ciliate-toothed with spinous bristles. Partial umbels 
with many-leayved involucels. 
4. APIUM, Linn. 
Calyx-margin obsolete. Petals roundish, entire. Stylopod 
depressed. Fruit roundish, laterally compressed, didymous ; 
carpels with equal, filiform ridges, the lateral marginal ; 
furrows 1- or the outer 2-3-vittate ; carpophore undivided. 
Seeds gibbous, convex, flattish in front. 
A. graveolens, Linn. (Wild Celery), occurs in the Eastern districts. 
Stem furrowed, decumbent; leaves pinnate, the upper ternate, leaflets 
cuneate, cut and toothed ; petals with the point closely involute. 
5. PETROSELINUM, Hoffm. 
Calyx-margin obsolete. Petals roundish, entire, scarcely 
emarginate, with a narrow incurved point. Stylopod short, 
conical, subcrenulate. Fruit ovate, laterally compressed, 
didymous ; carpels with 5 filiform, equal ridges, the lateral 
marginal; furrows 1-vittate; commissure 2-vittate; carpo- 
phore 2-parted. Seeds gibbous, convex, flattish in front.—7. 
Cap. ii. p. 535. 
