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4. APIUM Tourn., L. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. i. p. 888. 



1. A. leptophyllum F. Muell. ex Benth. Fl. Austral, iii. 372(1866). 



Helosciadium h'pto'phylluni DC. Mem. Soc. Phys. Gen^v. iv. 

 p. 493 (1828). 



Prince's Island. — A slender, subglaucous-gi-een, annual herb ; 

 flowers whitish ; involucre and involucels wanting ; carpophore 

 cylindrical, rather thick, undivided ; mericarps 5-sided. In unculti- 

 vated hollows and also in places formerly cultivated, near Bahia de 

 Santo Antonio, not uncommon : fr. and few fl., the specimens nearly 

 all past fl. or mutilated, Sept. 1853. No. 2498. 



Barra do Bengo. — Annual ; stems slender, sometimes erect in 

 other cases prostrate-ascending, as well as the leaves herbaceous-green ; 

 flowers whitish ; involucre and involucels wanting. Along the banks 

 of the river Bengo, in plantations of Saccharum offidnarum L. ; fl. and 

 fr. Dec. 1853 and Jan. 1854. No. 2499a. 



ICOLO E Bengo.^ — A soft, subglaucescent, deep-green, annual herb ; 

 stems ascending or sometimes almost straight ; flowers white, very 

 small, fugacious ; scent scarcely aromatic. By the river Bengo, not 

 far from Panda, in plantations of Zea Mays L. and Manihot utilissima 

 Pohl ; fl. and fr. Feb. 1854. No. 2499&. 



5. CARUM Eiv., L.; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. i. p. 890. 



1. C. Petroselinum Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. i. p. 891 (1867). 

 Apium Petroselinum L. Sp. PL, edit. i. p. 264 (1753). 



PuNGO Andongo.— Along roadsides and garden fences, apparently 

 perennial, very common and half wild and met with nearly throughout 

 the year, in nearly all parts of the praesidium of Pedras Negras, and 

 growing in the streets and squares of the town ; fr. mostly in May. 

 See Welw. Apont. p. 552 under n. 109. No specimens collected. 

 No. 25131 



2. C. imbricatum Schinz in Bull. Herb. Boiss. ii. p. 208 (1894). 

 HuiLLA.— Habit of C. verticillatum. Koch, but with very different 



foliage, which as to the indumentum is almost like that of Lagoecia 

 Cuminoides L. In moist meadows and along the banks of streams, 

 from Lopollo to the great lake of Ivantala ; fl. Jan. and fr. April 

 1860. No. 2513. 



6. SIUM Tourn., L. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. i. p. 893. 



1. S. Thunbergii DC. Prodr. iv. p. 125 (1830) ; Hiern in OHv. 

 Fl. Trop. Afr. iii. p. 13. 



PuNGO Andongo. — A marsh herb with the habit of the genus. In 

 rather salt, swampy places at Salinas do Dungo, near Quitage, in 

 company with Ruppia ; March 1857. A young plant, with foliage 

 only and without inflorescence, perhaps referable to this species. 

 No. 2509. 



2. S. repandum Welw. ms. in Herb. 



A glabrous, pallid, bright green perennial herb ; stem erect, 

 widely fistular, finely pluri-sulcate, 3 to 4 ft. high, cylindrical, 

 I to 1 in. in diameter at the base, branched and leafy towards 

 the apex ; leaves herbaceous-green, very pleasantly aromatic, 

 imparipinnate ; root-leaves 1 to 1| ft. long, with a short common 

 petiole, and 9 to 18 pairs of ovate-oblong rather obtuse crenulate 



