16 LXVIIl. UMBELLIFERiE (hIERN). 



brous. Petals white or violet-purplish, rounded at the apex or rarely 

 emarginate. Fruit ovate, densely covered with much-liooked hairs, 

 g^ in. long" ; styles rather short ; stigmas capitate. Vittse 6 in each 

 mericarp. 



XVile Land. Nuin'a, Soturba, Schweinfurth I 



Very like F. arahica, Boiss., but with more densely hairy fruit than in the rather 

 young specimens that 1 have seen of the latter. 



14. ANTHBISCUS, Hoffin. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant, i. 899. 



Calyx-lobes obsolete ; petals oval, with a shortly inflected acumen, 

 nearly entire, white ; stylopods flat or conical. Fruit ovate-oblong-, 

 g-labrous, with inconspicuous primary ridg^es, somewhat attenuate at the 

 apex; mericarps subterete or somewhat dorsally compressed. Vittne 

 slender, often unequal and irregular; carpophore undivided or bifid. 

 Seed subterete, with a wide and deep furrow on inner face. — Glabrous 

 or hairy, erect, branching* herbs. Leaves pinnately or subternately de- 

 compound. Involucre ; involucels of or several leaves. 



Genus of a few species, growine: chiefly in the temperate and subtropical parts of the 

 Northern hemisphere of the Old World. 



Primary and secondary rays of umbel several. Involucels of several 



bracteoles. Leaves several times pinnate 1. A. sylvestrls. 



Primary rays of umbel 3 or 4, secondary rays 3-5. Involucels 0. 



Leaves 3 or 5-foliate 2.-4. africana. 



1. A. sylvestris, Iloffm. ; DC. Prod. iv. 223. Stem terete, striate, 

 glabrous or pilose, 2-3 ft. high. Radical leaves 3 or 4 times ternate, 

 segments ovate-pinnatifid, glabrous or pilosely pubescent, on long 

 petioles, dilated and sheathing towards base, 1-2 ft. long; upper leaves 

 on short dilated and sheathing petioles, smaller. Umbels lateral and 

 terminal, of several primary and secondary rays ; primary rays about 

 1 in. long, secondary rays 4-J in. long. Leaves of the involucels 

 many, lanceolate, glabrous or ciliate ; many flowers in the secondarj- 

 umbels abortive. Petals unequal. Fruit smooth or with a few very 

 faint tubercles, -^-\ in. long. Vittee about 9 in each mericarp ; carpo- 

 phore bifid at the apex or to the middle. Pedicels with a few short 

 caducous hairs at the apex, seen at the base of carpophore. — Chcero- 

 jjhyllum affincj Steud. in Rich. Fl. Abyss, i. 332. 



Mile Zjand. Abyssinia, Schimper ! 



Widely spread in Europe and North Asia. 



Grows in damp mountainous places. Flowers and fruits in June. 



2. A. africana, Ilooh.f. in Janm. Linn. Soc. vii. 195. Root perennial. 

 Stem shinin"", terete, sulcate, 1-4 ft. high, simple and pubescent at the 

 base, with divaricate slender glabrous branches above. Root-leaves 

 about 6 in. long, 3- or 5-foliolate, on long pilose petioles sheathing at 

 the base, with stalked widely ovate cordate irregularly dentate and 

 sublobed retrorsely hispid leaflets, 1-2 in. long, the lateral ones often 

 oblique at the base. Stem-leaves with gradually shortening petioles. 



