LXIir. UMBELLIFER^. 



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shaped, 3-fid or undivided. Umbels many-rayed ; flowers white.— 2 spe- 

 cies, dispersed. 



22. STENOSEMIS, E. M. 



Calyx-margin minutely 5-tootlied. Petals obcordate, deeply 

 emarginate, with subulate, inflexed points.^ Fruit roundish- 

 ovate, its cross-section circular ; carpels with 5 large, rather 

 winged ribs, the 3 dorsal roundish-obtuse, corky, the lateral 

 marginal, a little more dilated and sharp-edged ; furrows 1- 

 vittate ; commissure 2-vittate ; carpophore 2-parted.— i^/. Cap. 

 \\. p. 551. 



Glabrous perennials, with erect, furrowed stem and branches, and petioled, 

 3-foliolately-pinnate leaves ; leaflets filiform or linear. Involucre of many 

 lanceolate leaves. — 2 species, both Eastern. 



23. CNIDIUM, Cuss. 



Calyx-margin obsolete or with very short teeth. Petals 

 obovate or ovate, emarginate, with inflexed points. Cross- 

 section of the fruit subcircular ; carpels with 5, equal, winged 

 ridges, the lateral marginal; furrows 1-vittate ; commissure 

 2-vittate ; carpophore 2-parted. Seed semicylindrical, flat in 

 front.— -F/. Cap. ii. p. 552. 



Decumbent or erect plants.— 2 Cape species, very unlike each other ; C. 

 suff'ruticosum, decumbent, with 3-pinnatisect, rigid leaves ; and C. Kraussi- 

 anum, erect, with reniform-cordate lower and 3-fid upper leaves. 



24. LEVISTICUM, Koch. 



Calyx-margin obsolete or with short teeth. Petals incurved, 

 entire, with an acute point. Emit compressed from the back, 

 having 2 wings on each side ; carpels with 5 winged ribs, the 

 wings of the lateral ribs usually twice the breadth of the 

 others; furrows 1-vittate; commissure 2-4-vittate ; carpo- 

 phore 2-parted. — Fl. Cap. Up. 553. 



Strong growing, glabrous herbs, with pinnate-parted leaves ; leaflets 

 obovate, entire. Flowers yellow or jellovf'ish.—L.grandiJlorum, Soud., the 

 only Cape species, is found in the Western districts. 



25. PEUCEDANUM, Koch. 



Calyx-margin 5-toothed or obsolete. Petals obovate, emar- 

 ginate or subentire, with inflexed points. Eruit dorsally com- 

 pressed, flat or lenticular, with a dilated, flattened margin ; 

 carpels with sub equidistant ribs, the 3 intermediate or dorsal 

 fihform, the 2 lateral lost in the dilated margin ; furrows 1- 

 vittate, or the lateral 2-vittate ; commissure 2-vittate ; carpo- 

 phore 2-parted. — Fl Cap. ii. p. 553. 



G-labrous perennials or shrubs. Leaves either pinnate, ternately-cut, or 



