LXTTI. UMBELLIFERJ^. lil 



14. LICHTENSTEINIA, Ch. and Schl. 



Calyx-margin 5-toothed. Petals elliptic, with a very long, 

 inflexed point. Fruit nearly terete, crowned with the erect 

 calycine teeth, surmounted by the short, spreading styles and 

 conical stylopods ; carpels smooth, 5-ridged, the ridges fili- 

 form, equal, the lateral marginal ; vittne large, one under each 

 ridge, but none in the commissure or furrows ; carpophore 2- 

 parted. — Fl. Cap. \\. p. 542. 



Aromatic perennials. Radical leaves variously cut, simple or 3-parted, 

 pinnate or 2 -pinnate ; cauline with imperfect laminae. Involucre many- 

 leaved. Flowers white. — 6 species, dispersed. 



15. ANESORHIZA, Ch. and Schl. 



Calyx-margin 5-toothed. Petals elliptical, acuminate, more 

 or less emarginate, with an inflexed point. Pruit 5-ano-led, 

 prismatic, crowned by the calyx and inflexed styles ; carpels 

 convex at back, unequal, one of them 3-winged, the other 4- 

 winged ; furrows 1-vittate ; commissure 2-vittate ; carpophore 

 2-parted. — Fl. Cap. ii. p. 544. 



Biennials or perennials, with aromatic roots ; Anyswartel of colonists. 

 Radical leaves petioled, pinnate-parted, cauline small and scale-like. Umbels 

 many-rayed ; involucres ma)iy-leaved. Flowers white. — 7 species, dis- 

 persed. 



16. CENANTHE, Linn. 



Calyx-margin 5-toothed, enlarged in fruit. Petals obovate, 

 emarginate, with inflexed points. JStylopod conical. Fruit 

 cylindrical-ovate, crowned with the long erect styles ; carpels 

 with 5 obtuse, rather convex ridges, the lateral marginal and 

 broader ; furrows 1-vittate ; carpophore indistinct. — Fl. Cap. 

 ii. p. 547. 



Smootli herbs, often aquatic. — 0. fiUformis, our only species, grows in 

 dry places in the Western districts. It is an annual, with simple, filiform 

 linear or linear-lanceolate leaves. Involucre and involucels of 3-5 subulate 

 leaves. Flowers white. 



17. GLIA, Sond. 



Calyx-margin 5-toothed ; teeth triangular, acute, persistent, 

 not enlarged in fruit. Petals obovate, subemarginate, with an 

 inflexed, lanceolate point. Fruit ovate- oblong, subterete, 

 crowned with the conical stylopod and spreading styles ; car- 

 pels with 5 equal, sharp, nearly wing-like ridges, the lateral 

 marginal ; furrows with single vittae ; commissure 2-vittate • 

 carpophore 2-parted. — Fl. Cap. ii. p. 547. 



O. gummifera^ Sond., the only species, grows in many places in the 

 Western districts ; it is the gli of the Hottentots, who prepare from its roots 



