6 Lxviii. UMBELLiFERiE (hiern). [HydrocotyU. 



Mile Iiand. Abyssinia, Schimper ! fl. and fr. March and November. Unyoro, 

 3300 ft. alt. r.37' N. lat., Speke and Grant! 



Occurs also in Italy, Palestine, Sicily, California, and Peru. 

 Grows in marshes or streams. 



7. H. asiatica, Linn. ; DC. Prod. iv. 62. Perennial. Stem long, 

 creeping and often rooting at the nodes, usually glabrous. Leaves 

 deeply cordate-reniform, many-veined, equally crenate, crenulate or 

 without obtuse teeth, 1-2 in. wide, glabrous or pubescent ; petioles 

 usually 2 or more together, glabrous or pubescent, variable in length 

 up to 5 in. or more ; stipules broad. Peduncles fascicled, glabrous 

 or pubescent, varying in length up to J in. or more, equal in the 

 i^ame fascicle. Involucre consisting of 2 or 3 broad pubescent bracts 

 shorter than the fruit and some linear ones inside. Umbels containing 

 about 4 flowers on very short pedicels. Elowers often monoecious. 

 Petals broad, much imbricated in bud; styles rather short. Fruit 

 somewhat pubescent or glabrous, \ in. wide, with primary ridges 

 and weaker secondary ridges, — Refug. Bot. t. 202. H. nummularioideSy 

 Rich., DC. Prod. iv. 63. 



Abyssinian name, Taboo. 



Upper Guinea. Prince's Island, Mann! St. Thomas, G. Don! 



Nile Iiand. Abyssinia, Adoa, fl. and fr. Oct., Schimper! Chire, fr. July, Quartin- 

 Dillon. 



iMOvver Gruinea. Congo, Chr. Smith! Angola, Tcolo e Bengo, fl. and fr. Dec, 

 Libongo, fl. and fr. Sept., Mossamcdes, Golungo Alto, 1000-2400 ft. alt., fl. and fr. 

 July ; Huilla, 3800-5500 ft. alt., fl. and fr. Jan. ; Pungo Andougo, 3500 ft. alt., Dr. 

 Welwitsch ! 



Mozamb. Distr. Delta below Mazzaro, fl. and fr. March, Dr. Kirk ! Roangwa, 

 near Lake Nyaesa, fr. Sept., Dr. Kirk! (variety with tomentose petioles, more coria- 

 ceous and deltoidly dentate leaves.) Zanzibar, Dr. Kirk ! 



Widely spread over the tropical and subtropical regions of the whole world. 



2. EBYNGIUM, Linn, j Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant, i. 878. 



Calyx-tube covered with small vesicles; calyx-teeth rigid, acute, 

 longer than the petals. Petals erect, notched, each with an inflexed 

 point as long as the rest of the petal ; disk dilated ; styles filiform from 

 the base. Fruit widening upwards, but little laterally compressed; 

 ridges inconspicuous ; transverse section of mericarp nearly square, with 

 exterior corner rounded ; commissure wide ; carpophore ; vittae 0, or 

 scarcely visible within the small folds of the ridges. Seeds subterete. 

 Leaves spinously serrate. Flowers in dense sessile heads, with brac- 

 teoles, hermaphrodite. 



A large genus, scattered over the warmer and temperate parts of the whole world, 

 except South Africa, 



1. E. foetiduxn, Linn. ; DC. Prod, iv. 94. Glabrous spinulose rigid 

 erect biennial herb, with strong smell, 2-3 ft. high, dichotomously 

 branched above. Stem deeply striate. Radical leaves several, ob- 

 lanceolate, attenuate at base, rounded at apex, sheathing at end of 

 petiole, ranging up to 10 in. long. Floral leaves palmatipartite, sessile, 

 about H in. long. Flowers white ; heads cylindrical, shorter than the 



