Pimpinella.] Lxviii. umbellifer^ (hiern). 15 



equalling- or shorter than the secondary rays. Calyx-lobes obsolete ; 

 petals oval with blunt inflexed point, white"; filaments exceeding the 

 petals. Stylopods conical with dilatato-undulating' margins. Fruit 

 shortly ovoid, verrucoso-papillose, with distant primary ridg-es, laterally 

 compressed, y^ in. long-. Vittse go, 2 or 3 in the wide intervals of the 

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

 partite. — Helosciadium siniense, Hochst. in Hb. Schimp. Abyss. ; Sivm 

 simense^ Gay in Rich. Fl. Abyss, i. 324 ; Conhm verrvcosuM, Hochst. in 

 PI. Schimp. Abyss. ; Slum verrncosum^ G'ay in Rich. Fl. Abyss, i. 324. 



Nile Ijand. ^ Abyssinia, by mountain-streams. Flowers and fruits in August and 

 September. Schimper ! Plowden ! 



Abyssinian names, Kerounta, Zakeda, Antuohana. 



4. P. peregrina, Linn.; Sp. PI. ed. 4, 378; DC. Prod. iv. 121; 

 Rchh. Ic. t. 1866. Pubescent or subg-labrous, biennial; stem erect, 

 2-3 1 feet high, terete -striate, usually purplish towards the base, 

 glaucescent. Radical-leaves pinnate with subrotund, crenate, mem- 

 branaceous leaflets, the terminal one cordate, about 6 in. long ; stem- 

 leaves pinnate or pinnatisect; segments ovate or lanceolate, serrate 

 or laciniate ; petioles long or manifest, sheathing ; umbels terminal on 

 long or manifest peduncles, with 10-13 primary rays more than an 

 inch long in fruit, each with about as many secondary rays | in. Ion"- 

 in fruit ; involucre and involucels absent. Petals ovate with a long 

 inflected acumen and then emarginate, minutely toothed, white ; mid- 

 rib reddish. Stylopods conical ; styles slender, erect-patent or more 

 usually spreading. Fruit ovoid, hairy when young, hispid when ma- 

 ture, somewhat compressed laterally; mericarp somewhat pentagonal 

 in transverse section, primary ridges blunt, y^-^ in. long ; hairs not 

 hooked. Vittae alternate with primary ridges, but 2 in each commis- 

 sure. Carpophore bifid. — P. hirtella, A. Rich. Fl. Abyss, i. 323 ; Tru- 

 gium hirtelluMj Hochst. in Hb. Schimp. Abyss, n. 355. 



Abyssinian name Mazogo. 



Nile Liand. Abyssinia, Mt. Scholoda ; fl. Oct., Schimper! 

 Grows in thickets. 



The Abyssinian specimens differ from the type by the styles usually spreading or re- 

 curving instead of being erect patent, as is common in the type. 

 Occurs also iu South Europe, the Levant, Caucasus, Egypt, &c. 



5. P. XStbaica, Schweinf. in Verh. Zool. Bot. Wien. ser. i. GQ)7. Annual. 

 Quite glabrous except the fruit and sheaths of petioles. Stem erect, 

 finely striate, glaucescent, erect or ascending, 2-12 in. high. Radical 

 leaves on long petioles, pinnately tripartite ; segments stalked, doubly 

 trifid; lower stem-leaves 5-pinnate-partite, segments divaricate, stalked, 

 tripartite, partitions doubly trilobed, lobes oblong or linear acute and 

 mucronulate ; upper leaves shortly stalked, tripartite, with linear seg- 

 ments, trifid or entire ; petioles long or manifest, sheathing at the 

 base; sheaths narrowed, whitish, membranaceous, slightly webbed- 

 ciliate. Umbels long-stalked, of 3-7 primary rays, J-f in. long, eacli 

 of 7-12 secondary rays, y^ in. long, somewhat hairy or at length gla- 



