144 LX1II. UMBELLIFERS. 
multifid. Involucre many-leaved. Flowers white or yellow.—17 Cape 
species, dispersed. 
26. BUBON, Linn. 
Calyx-margin obsolete. Petals obovate, entire, with an 
acute, involute point. Fruit dorsally compressed, lenticular, 
with a narrow, flattened margin; carpels with 5 equidistant 
ribs, the 8 intermediate filiform, the 2 lateral lost in the 
flattened margin; furrows 1-vittate ; commissure 2-vittate ; 
carpophore 2-parted.— 7. Cap. ii. p. 561. 
Glabrous and resiniferous shrubs. Leaves ternately compound ; leaflets 
veiny. Umbels many-rayed; involucre and involucels of many linear 
leaves. Flowers greenish-yellow.—5 species, dispersed. 
27. ANETHUM, Linn. 
Calyx-margin obsolete. Petals roundish, entire, involute, 
with a retuse point. Fruit dorsally compressed, lenticular, 
with a flattened margin; carpels with filiform, equidistant 
ridges, the 3 dorsal sharply keeled, the 2 lateral subobsolete, 
confounded with the margin; furrow filled up with a broad 
vitta, 2 in the commissure.—Fl. Cap. il. p. 561. 
A. graveolens, Linn. (“ Dill”), is naturalized in old gardens. It is grown 
for its pungently aromatic seeds. Annual, glabrous, with decompound 
leaves and yellow flower ; no involucres. 
28. PASTINACA, Linn. 
Calyx-margin obsolete or minutely-toothed. Petals round- 
ish, entire, involute, the apex broad and retuse. Fruit dor- 
sally flattened, with a dilated, flat margin; carpels with very 
slender ridges, the dorsal and 2 intermediate equidistant, the 
lateral near the outer edge of the dilated margin; furrows 1- 
vittate ; commissure 2- or more-vittate ; carpophore 2-parted. 
Seed flat.—F7. Cap. ii. p. 561. 
Herbs, with a fusiform, often fleshy root (Parsnip)—P. Capensis, Sd., 
our only species, has pinnate leaves, pubescent beneath, the lateral leaflets 
subsessile, entire or 2-fid, terminal 3-lobed; lobes toothed. Flowers 
yellow. 
29. CAPNOPHYLLUM, Gertn. 
Calyx-margin obsolete. Petals oblong, subemarginate, with 
a sharp, inflexed point. Fruit dorsally compressed, lenticular, 
with a flat, dilated margin ; carpels with the 3 dorsal ridges 
thick, keeled, flexuous or tubercled, the 2 lateral passing into 
the dilated margin; furrows 1-vittate; commissure 2-vittate. 
—F Il. Cap. ii. p. 562. 
C. Africanum, our only species, is a glabrous, glaucous annual, growing 
in sandy ground near the sea in the Western districts. Leaves 2-3-pinnate ; 
segments capillary-multifid. Umbels many-ranged. Flowers white. 
