Urz/nf/ium^] LXVIIl. UMBELLIFERiE (hIERN). 7 



leaves, about J in. long* by | in. thick, at ends of stem and branches. 

 Filaments long-, slender. Styles long- ; bracteoles longer than the 

 llowers. 



Upper Qxiinea. Niger Expedition, Prince's Island, to 2000 ft. alt., common, 

 Barter ! St. Thomas Island, 1000 ft. alt., Mann ! 



Occurs also in South America, where it is cultivated as a condiment ; Floi-ida, and the 

 West Indies. 



y. ALEPIDEA, Laroch. j Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant, i. 878. 



Calyx-tube covered with small tubercles ; calyx-lobes ovate, rather 

 blunt, membranaceous, not imbricated in bud, persistent. Petals erect, 

 subraarg'inate, inflexed. Fruit but little compressed laterally, tubercled ; 

 commissure wide, primary ridges 5, manifest, enclosing one vitta in 

 each ; secondary ridges wanting ; carpophore 0. Styles filiform, 

 thicker towards the base ; disk sessile, annular. — Glabrous erect herbs, 

 simple at base, 1-5 ft. high. Leaves rig-id, serrato-ciliate, those at the 

 base of the umbel 3-4-partite. Flowers without paleue, sessile, in 

 small g'lobular heads, the outer ones opposite the segments of the invo- 

 lucre, hermaphrodite. Involucre usually 10-partite, the segments 

 alternately longer and shorter, entire, all exceeding the flowers and 

 fruits, often white or coloured inside. 



A genus containing three species, occurring only in Africa ; possibly the three are 

 only forms of one species {A. ciUaris, Laroch.). 

 Bracts of the involucre LOt exceeding \ in. in length. Radical and 



basal leaves attenuate at base 1. .4. amatymbica. 



Longer bracts of the involucre about 4 in. loi^g- Basal leaves 



sometimes rounded at base and distinctly petiolate .... 2. A. peduncular is. 



1. A. amatsrmbica, Fck. et Zeyh. Enum, PI. Afr, Austr. 339, w. 2189. 

 Stem sulcate, 1-2J ft. hig-h. Radical leaves oblanceolate, attenuate at 

 ])ase, about 6 in. long-; stem-leaves lanceolate-oblong, clasping and 

 auricled at base, shorter. Flowers many in each head, small. Invo- 

 lucre not more than J in. long-. — A. longifolia, E. Mey. 



Mozamb. Distr. Sotshi, Manganja mountains, lat. 15° 20' S., alt. 3000 ft. ; fl. 

 Oct., Dr. Kirk! 



Occui-8 also in South Africa and Natal. 



2. A.'peduncularis9 Stmd. in Rich. Fl. Abyss, i. 320. Stem striate, 

 1-2 ft. hig'h. Radical leaves attenuate at base ; basal leaves often 

 oblong, rounded at the base and distinctly petiolate, about in. long. 

 Stem-leaves oblong or lanceolate, clasping and auricled at base, shorten- 

 ing- upwards. Flowers about 12 in each head. Styles' long, curving 

 outwards. Fruit rather larger than in the former species, ^\ in. 

 long. Involucre about J in. long-. 



Nile laand. Abyssinia, Schimper! fl. in Jan. and August. 



4. SANICULA, Linn.;. Benth. et Hook, f Gen. Plant, i. 880. 



Calyx- teeth herb-aceous, persistent, lanceolate. Petals erect, emar- 

 o-inate, inflexed with a long acuminate point, 1 -veined, slightly inibn- 



