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shaped, 3-fid or undivided. Umbels many-rayed ; flowers white.—2 spe- 
cies, dispersed. 
22. STENOSEMIS, E. M. 
Calyx-margin minutely 5-toothed. Petals obcordate, deeply 
emarginate, with subulate, inflexed points. _ Fruit roundish- 
ovate, its cross-section circular; carpels with 5 large, rather 
winged ribs, the 8 dorsal roundish-obtuse, corky, the lateral 
marginal, a little more dilated and sharp-edged; furrows 1- 
vittate ; commissure 2-vittate ; carpophore 2-parted.— #1. Cap. 
li. p. 551. 
Glabrous perennials, with erect, furrowed stem and branches, and petioled, 
3-foliolately-pinnate leaves ; leaflets filiform or linear. Involucre of many 
lanceolate leaves.—2 species, both Hastern. 
23. CNIDIUM, Cuss. 
Calyx-margin obsolete or with very short teeth. Petals 
obovate or ovate, emarginate, with inflexed points. Cross- 
section of the fruit subcircular; carpels with 5, equal, winged 
ridges, the lateral marginal; furrows 1-vittate ; commissure 
2-vittate ; carpophore 2-parted. Seed semicylindrical, flat in 
front.— Fl. Cap. i. p. 552. 
Decumbent or erect plants. —2 Cape species, very unlike each other; C. 
suffruticosum, decumbent, with 3-pinnatisect, rigid leaves ; and C. Kraussi- 
anum, erect, with reniform-cordate lower and 3-fid upper leaves. 
24, LEVISTICUM, Koch. 
Calyx-margin obsolete or with short teeth. Petals incurved, 
entire, with an acute point. Fruit compressed from the back, 
haying 2 wings on each side ; carpels with 5 winged ribs, the 
wings of the lateral ribs usually twice the breadth of the 
others ; furrows l-vittate; commissure 2-4-vittate; carpo- 
phore 2-parted.— Fl. Cap. ii. p. 553. 
Strong growing, glabrous herbs, with pinnate-parted leaves; leaflets 
obovate, entire. Flowers yellow or yellowish.—L. grandiflorum, Sond., the 
only Cape species, is found in the Western districts. 
25. PEUCEDANUM, Koch. 
Calyx-margin 5-toothed or obsolete. Petals obovate, emar- 
ginate or subentire, with inflexed points. Fruit dorsally com- 
pressed, flat or lenticular, with a dilated, flattened margin ; 
carpels with subequidistant ribs, the 3 intermediate or dorsal 
filiform, the 2 lateral lost in the dilated margin; furrows 1- 
vittate, or the lateral 2-vittate ; commissure 2-vittate ; carpo- 
phore 2-parted.—F7. Cap. ii. p. 553. 
Glabrous perennials or shrubs. Leaves either pinnate, ternately-cut, or 
