24 Lxviii. UMBELL1FER.E (hiern). [Lejeburia. 



rays about 8, 2 J in. long. Receptacle of rays scarcely dilated; secon- 

 dary rays J-f in. long. Stylopods conical, free, not exceeding the 

 notch 01 the fruit; styles recurved. Fruit J— Jin. long by \-^ in. wide ; 

 pedicels dilated at articulation with fruit. Seeds flat on the face. 



Nile Iiand. Upper Nile, Province Unyamuezi. In marsh or backwater bv R. 

 Wallah, 5' S. lat., 33° E. long.; alt. 3800 ft., Speke and Grant I 



19. MALABAILA, Hoffm. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant, i. 923. 



Calyx-teeth minute ; petals oval, with a filiform inflected acumen, 

 emarginate, slightly hairy outside. Filaments longer than the petals. 

 Stylopods convex-conical; surrounded by a slightly waved margin. 

 Fruit obcordate- oblong, flatly and dorsally compressed, ''surrounded b} 

 a wide somewhat thickened margin, cordate at the apex, with the sty- 

 lopods in the notch, which extends about as high as the margin of the 

 fruit, glabroys, wider at base than the pedicel ; primary ridges delicate, 

 except the winged marginal ones. Vittae solitary between the primary 

 ridges, equal, reaching | way down the fruit, broad, clearly seen 

 from outside ; 2 vittoe in each commissural face. Carpophore bipartite. 

 Seed flat. — Perennial erect tall herbs. Leaves pinnate, with incise- 

 dentate ovate usually acute pinnae. Umbels terminal and subterminal, 

 regularly compound, of several primary and many secondary rays ; 

 involucre of 0, 1 or few bracts, and^ involucels of many linear-acute 

 bracteoles. 



A genus of a few species occurring in Eastern Africa, South-east Europe, and Western 

 Asia. 



1. M, abyssinica, Boiss. in Ann. Sc. Nat. Ser. 3, PI. i. 338. Glan- 

 dular-pubescent in upper part, hairy below. Stem terete, striate, 2-3 ft. 

 high. Root-leaves more than a foot long, on petioles 6 in. long clasp- 

 ing at base; lower leaves 4-6 in. long, on petioles 2-3 in. long, dilated 

 into a clasping sheath about 1-2 in. long. Outer primary rays of fruit- 

 ing umbels 2-3Jin. long ; secondary rays i—^j, in. long. Fruit f-f in. 

 long by |-f in. wide. — Peucedanum (Cervarm), Hochst. in Hb. Schimp. 

 Abyss, n. 204. 



Nile Iiand. Abyssinia, Schimper ! Quartiur Billon and Petit (?) ; 8000 ft, alt. ; 

 fr. Nov., Schimper. 

 Abjssinian name, Mokuessa. 



20. DAUCUS, Linn. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pi. i. 928. 



Calyx-teeth acute; petals unequal, obovate, with inflected acumen, 

 deeply emarginate, or the larger ones bilobed. Stylopods shortly 

 conical. Fruit ovoid, somewhat compressed laterally or subterete ; 5 

 primary ridges not prominent^ with 2 faint rows of short thin patent 

 hairs ; 4 secondary ridges very prominent, armed with long spines 

 hooked at the end or glochidiate. Vittse solitary under the secondary 

 ridges, and 2 contiguous in' the commissural face of each mericarp. 

 Carpophore undivided. Seed sub- or ^-terete, somewhat hollowed in 



