432 Lxvii. UMBELLiFER^. [Coriccndrum 



12. CORIANDRUM Tourn., L. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. i. 

 p. 926. 



1. C. sativum L. Sp. PI., edit. 1, p. 256 (1753); Hiern in Oliv. 

 Fl. Tiop. Afr. iii. p. 3. 



GoLUNGO Alto. — Along the streams Delamboa, Quibolo, etc. ; fre- 

 quently cultivated and often wild ; fl. and fr. August 1850. No. 2506- 



See Welw. Apont. p. 552 under n. 109. 



13. CAUCALIS Tourn., L. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. i. p. 928. 



1. C. mossamedensis Welw. ms. in Herb. 



An annual herb, 6 to 18 inches high, dichotomously branched 

 from the base, aromatic ; branches divaricate or spreading, 

 glabrate or nearly so, furrowed, leafy ; leaves pinnatisect, 

 herbaceous-green, ranging vip to 3 inches long ; ultimate segments 

 linear, glabrous or nearly so or slightly lepidote ; petiole dilated, 

 short, clasping towards the base, often ciliolate ; umbels leaf- 

 opposed and terminal, 1 to 2 inches in diameter ; peduncles ranging 

 up to 4 inches long, striate ; bracts of the involucre and of the 

 involucels narrowly linear, several, hairy, ranging up to | inch 

 long, acute; rays of the umbel 6 to 10; umbellules densely 

 flowered ; flowers white, on short pedicels ; calyx-limb obsolete or 

 concealed by the whitish hairs of the densely setose ovary ; petals 

 incurved at the apex ; stamens exserted ; anthers violet -coloured ; 

 fruit ovoid, latei-ally compressed, constricted at the commissure ; 

 carpels almost terete ; ridges all obscure or not prominent, densely 

 setose with irregularly arranged whitish prickles ; vittte all 

 solitary ; st}lopod conical, more or less free from the prominent 

 axis of the carpophore ; styles divaricate or nearly detiexed ; 

 carpophore bipartite ; seeds dorsally somewhat compressed, 

 broadly furrowed or almost hollowed on the face. 



MossAMEDES. — In the sparingly herbaceous maritime depressions 

 among gravelly hills above Praia da Amelia, towards the mouth of the 

 river Caroca, near Cabo Negro, nearly always in company with 

 Merremia rnuWsecta Hallier (Welw. Herb. No. 6112) and Ginehia, 

 abundant, but seen only in one place ; fl. and fr. 4 Sept. 1859. 

 No. 2500. In moist sandy places at the banks of the river Bero, 

 rather rare ; fl. and fr. July 1859. No. 2501. 



This belongs to the section Torilis, and is probably the plant referred 

 to by Welwitsch in Journ. Linn. Soc. v. p. 185 (1861) as a Pimpinella- 

 like annual Umbellifer. 



LXVIII. ARALIACEiE. 



1. CUSSONIA Thunb. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. i. p. 944. 



1. C. angolensis Hiern in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. iii, p. 32. 



Sphtrrodendron angolense Seem, in Journ. Bot. iii. p. 34, t. 26 

 (1865), and Rev. Heder. p. 37, t. 1 (1868). 



Ambaca. — A tree, 15 to 25 feet high ; trunk 1 to U feet in diameter, 

 very strictly erect, in the adult state bare to a great extent, bearing at 

 the apex an exactly spherical head of branches and foliage and 

 presenting a remarkable appearance, especially when the trees are 

 massed and grouped into woods ; flowers greenish. In the denser but 



