HeteromorpTia.] lxviii. umbelliferje (hiern). 11 



Annesorhiza ahyssinica, A. Br. in Flora (Bot, Zeit.) 1841, i. 337-340, tab. 2, fig. 

 B., was described only from the fruit. The description seems to suit Htteromorplui 

 better than Annesorhiza, and it is possible that the fruit belonged to H. arbore^icena, 

 Ch. and Schl. 



9. APIUM, Linn. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant, i. 888. 



Calyx- teeth obsolete. Petals ovate, concave, entire or slightly emar- 

 ginate, inflexed at the apex. Stylopods depressed, margins entire; 

 styles' short, divergent. Fruit ovate, laterally compressed; primary 

 ridges blunt, equal ; secondary ridges rounded, rather prominent ; 

 mericarp 5-sided. Vittte solitary, conspicuous, opposite the secondary 

 ridges, but 2 in the commissural face of each mericarp. Carpophore 

 undivided. — Herb. Leaves pinnate. Umbels regularly compound, 

 usually opposite the leaves ; involucre none ; involucels of or many 

 leaves. Flowers white. 



Genus of moderate size, scattered over the whole world. 



Apium graveolens, L., Celery, is cultivated in Abyssinia. It has no bractecles. 



1. A. nodiflommiy Reichb.f. Fl. Germ. JJmb. 1. 15. Glabrous perennial. 

 Stem creeping or decumbent, hollow, rooting at the lower nodes, long, 

 striate. Leaves on long petioles which are suddenly dilated below the 

 middle and amplexicaul towards base ; leaflets oval ovate or ovate-oblong, 

 serrate, |- to 2 in. long. Umbels subsessile or shortly stalked, of 5-10 

 primary rays \-\\ in. long, each with numerous slender secondary 

 rays \-\ in. long ; involucels with many lanceolate leaves minutely den- 

 ticulate, and about equalling the secondary rays. Fruit yV^^- long.— 

 Sium nodiJioruMy Linn.; Helosciadium nodiflamrrij Koch, DC. Prod. iv. 

 104. 



Nile Iiand. Abyssinia, Schimper ! fl. in March and November. 

 Widely spread throughout Europe. 



10. AMMI, Linn. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant, i. 889. 



Calyx-teeth obsolete; petals widely obovate, with a long inflected 

 acumen and 2 lateral rounded lobes above, white. Stylopods shortly 

 conical; styles rather long, and in flower. Fruit long-ovoid, very 

 slightly compressed laterally; transverse section of mericarp penta- 

 gonal-renif^rm ; primary ridges prominent, blunt ; vittye solitary, alter- 

 nate with the primary ridges, but 2 corresponding to each commissural 

 face. Carpophore bipartite. Seed subreniform, with the concavity 

 directed inwards.— Glabrous and branched herbs. Leaves pinnatisect ; 

 all the lobes with cartilaginous acutely serrulate margins, oval or lan- 

 ceolate in the lower leaves, in the upper multifid and linear. Umbels 

 regularly compound of many primary and secondary rays. Bracts ot 

 the involucre several, usually 3-cut; of the involucels many linear 

 acute. 



Genus of a few species growing chiefly in the Mediterranean region, and extending 

 to Chili aud Brazil. 



