138 LXIII. UMBELLIFEEiE. 



"uitbout vittcT, their 5 ribs nearly filiform, the dorsal and 

 lateral usually obsolete, the intermediate confluent. — Fl. Cap. 

 Up. 526. 



Small herbs or half- shrubby plants. Umbel simple, commonly 3-flowerecl, 

 2 of the flowers sterile ; flowers sessile or pedicclled, white. Involucre in 

 flower 4-leaTed. — 17 Cape species, dispersed. 



2. SANICULA, Linn. 



Calyx-tube bristly, its margin 5-cleft, leafy. Petals erect, 

 conniving, obovate, with inflexed tips. Fruit subglobose, not 

 spontaneously separating ; carpels with obsolete ridges, and 

 many vittsp, covered ynt\\ hooked bristles ; carpophore indis- 

 tinct.— FZ. Cap. ii. p. 533. 



Perennials. S. Europcea, Linn., a common wood-plant in the Northern 

 hemisphere, occurs in woods in many places. Leaves radical, palmate- 

 parted, the lobes 3-fid, sharply toothed ; flowers sessile, in umbellnles, 

 white or reddish. 



3. ALEPIDEA, La Eoche. 



Calyx-tube glabrous or roughly tubercled ; lobes erect, leafy. 

 Petals inflexed. Fruit ovate, somewhat laterally compressed, 

 the cross-section nearly circular ; carpels without vitta^, 

 having 5 filiform or raised inflated ribs ; carpophore at length 

 free, simple. — Fl. Cap. ii. p. 534. 



Glabrous herbs, natives of the Cape. — 2 species, both Eastern. Leaves 

 chiefly radical, oblong, ciliate-toothed with spinous bristles. Partial umbels 

 with many-leaved involucels. 



4. APIUM, Linn. 



Calyx-margin obsolete. Petals roundish, entire. Stylopod 

 depressed. Pruit roundish, laterally compressed, didymous ; 

 carpels with equal, filiform ridges, the lateral marginal ; 

 furrows 1- or the outer 2-3-vittate ; carpojihore undivided. 

 Seeds gibbous, convex, flattish in front. 



A. graveolens, Linn. (Wild Celery), occurs in the Eastern districts. 

 Stem furrowed, decumbent ; leaves pinnate, the upper ternate, leaflets 

 cuneate, cut and toothed ; petals with the point closely involute. 



5. PETROSELINUM, Hofl'm. 



Calyx-margin obsolete. Petals roundish, entire, scarcely 

 emarginate, with a narrow incurved point. Stylopod short, 

 conical, subcrenulate. Pruit ovate, laterally compressed, 

 didymous ; carpels with 5 filiform, equal ridges, the lateral 

 marginal ; furrows 1-vittate ; commissure 2-vittate ; carpo- 

 phore 2-parted. Seeds gibbous, convex, flattish in front. — Fl. 

 Cap. ii. p. 535. 



