Anthn.^cus.\ Lxviir. UMBELLiFERiE (hiern). i;* 



the leaflets gradually narrowing- till they hecome linear-lanceolate and 

 narrowed at the base, the lateral leaflets rarely bifoliolate. Umbels with 

 3-4 primary rays, lJ-2 in. long-, each with 3-5 secondary rays, nearly 

 o)c quite 1 in. long-; paniculately arrang:ed at the ends of 'the stem and 

 branches. Involucels 0. Flowers small. Fruit ^ in. long. Vittie 

 about 2, alternating* with each of the primary ridges; st3'lopods elon- 

 gated, conical ; styles recurved, filiform ; carpophore undivided. 



Upper Guinea. Cameroons mountains, 4000-7000 ft.; fl. and fr. Dec— Feb. 

 Ma}in ! 



15. DIPLOLOPHIUM, Turcz. ; Benth, et Hook. f. 

 Gen. Plant, i. 900. 



Calyx-teeth obsolete; petals ovate with long inflected acumen, emar- 

 ginate, hairy outside; filame^ts longer than the petals. Stylopods 

 convex or conical, with 3 ridges and at base 5-lobed, glabrous. Fruit 

 cylindrical, tomentose-hirsute, subterete or somewhat compressed 

 dorsally; primary ridges rounded; carpophore (?); styles rather 

 long, channelled within ; stigmas punctiform. Vittoe solitary between 

 primary ridges, and 2 or 4 in each commissural face, conspicuous. 

 Seeds dorsally compressed. — Stout perennial herbs, with erect, solid, 

 terete and finely striate stems, glabrous except the umbels. Stem- 

 leaves ternato-pinnately decompound with filiform or acicular subcylin- 

 drical or compressed s"^gments. Petioles wholly dilated and sheathing. 

 Umbels regularly compound of many primary rays converging in fruic, 

 and many secondary rays, terminal or subterminal on long or manifest 

 stalks. Involucre of many lanceolate or lanceolate-oblong bracts, con- 

 nate at the base, quickly glabrescent ; involucels of many lanceolate 

 bracteoles, connate at the base, as long as the pedicels. Receptacle of 

 primary and secondary rays more or less dilated and thickened ; outer 

 primary rays longer than the inner ones. 



Segments of leaves filiform. Bracts of involucre wide and long; 



2 vittse in each commissural face I. D. abyss Intcum. 



Segments of leaves acicular. Bracts of involucre small or nar- 

 row; 4 vittse in each commissural face 2. D. zamhcsianum. 



1. D. abyssinicum, Benth. et Hook.f. I.e. Stem glaucescent, 2-5 

 ft. high. Leaves 2-12 in. long, with very numerous spreading filiform 

 acute segments. Petioles 1-5 in. long by J— | in. wide. Primary rays 

 of umbel 1-1|^ in. long, stout, pubescent; secondary rays iV~tV i'^- ^^ng, 

 pubescent. Bracts of the involucre 1 in. lon^ or more, and tV~A i"- 

 wide ; involucels x*(T~"^ i^* ^^^g"? pubescent. Flowers rather large, her- 

 maphrodite. Petals equal, midrib impressed. Fruit ^ in. long, with 

 long styles ; hairs everywhere short. — " Whole plant, usually perfimied 

 (something like peppermint), in woods," Speke and Grant. — Cachry^ 

 ahyssinica,U.oc\LSt. in Hb. Schimp. Abyss, n. 213. Diplolaphum aj'ri- 

 canumj Turcz. in Bull. Mosc. 1847, i. 173. 



Wae Saand. Abyssinia, fr. Jan. Schimper I 7500 ft. alt. Upper Nile, Spelcg and 

 Grant! No. 709; fl. November and December; 3° N. lat. jLthiopia, Fosoglu, 

 Kotschy I 



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