Peucedanum,] Lxviii. umbelliferje (hiern). 2vi 



Mozamb. Distr. Maganja hills, 3000 ft. alt., MelUr! 



Yar. /3. Nile Iiand. Khy &e\n\d^^ Schimper ! Coll. 1863-8. w. 923. 



Alvardia arhorescens, Fenzl in Flora 1844, p. 312 (name only), Peucedanum, teste 

 Benth. and Hook. f. Gen. PI. i. 920, was found by Kotschy in the kingdom of Fesoglu;' 

 I have seen it only in flower without leaves. It appears to be a distinct species. There 

 is a specimen, 3 in. thick, in the St. Petersburgh museum. It fruits in May, 



A specimen of a Peucedanum {Steganotcenia), collected by Barter in the Niger Expe- 

 dition, has nearly entire stalked ovate-lanceolate acuminate leaflets, widened to near the 

 base, 7 on one leaf. It is probably a new species nearly related to P. araliaceum. 



Abyssinian name, Antrokohela. Manganja name, M^Polone. White Nile name, 

 Meonga Pembe. 



18. LEPEBUBIA, A. Rich.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant, i. 921. 



Caljx-teeth obsolete ; petals narrowly cuneate or oblanceolate, acu- 

 men inflected, entire. Stylopods conical or long and narrow, not 

 dilated at the base, -^-connate or free. Fruit obovato-elliptic, flat, 

 dorsally compressed, winged at the margin ; wings with a deep narrow 

 sinus at apex, not thickened ; primary ridges 5, dorsal delicate ; vittae 

 solitary, conspicuous between the primary ridges j 2 distinct vittae in 

 each commissural face. Carpophore bipartite. Seeds flat. — Erect 

 o-labrous, perennial herbs with terete stems. Leaves ternately divided, 

 lower ones on long petioles, sheathing and amplexicaul at base, upper 

 ones simpler ; leaflets simple or subpartite, lanceolate, acute, attenuate 

 at both ends, distantly serrate or very finely serrulate. Umbels ter- 

 minal and sub terminal, of several or many long slender rays and many 

 slender shorter secondary rays ; involucre or of several delicate short 

 bracts ; involucels of a few similar bracteoles. 



The genus contains only the two following species : — 

 Primary rays 12-16. Stylopods 4-connate, very narrow. Seeds 



sulcate on face 1. X. dbyssinica. 



Primary rays about 8. Stylopods free, conical. Seeds flat on the 



face 2. X. brcuihystyla. 



1. Ij. abyssinica, RicJi. in Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 2, xiv. 260, t. xv. 

 lig. 1 ; Fl. Abyss, i. 328, t. Iv. Glaucescent, 2-3 ft. high. Root 

 leaves triternate, 2 ft. long j uppermost leaves nearly reduced to di- 

 lated petioles about 1 in. long; leaflets coarsely and distantly serrate, 

 serratures apiculate. Umbels arranged on peduncles in a corymbose 

 manner, the central one only fertile ; primary rays of fruiting umbels 

 many, 3J-4^ in. long; secondary nearly 1 in. long, ascendino-, filiform ; 

 receptacle of rays somewhat dilated. Stylopods narrowly conical, 

 longer than the notch in the wings of the fruit, connate from the middle 

 downwards. Fruit 4 in. long by 3 in. wide ; pedicels dilated at articu- 

 lation with fruit. Seeds with a medial depressed line on the face. 



Nile .Xiand. Abyssinia, Schiwper ! Fruits in November. 



2. L. brachystyla, Hiern. Subglaucescent, 3 ft. high. Stem-leaves 

 ternate with lanceolate-linear leaflets, minutely and distantly serrulate, 

 4 8 in. long, on manifest petioles sheathing at the base. Primary 



