Pimpinella] Lxvii. umbellifeR/K. 427 



petiole 1 to 4 in. long, dilated towards the base, amplexicaul, 

 scarcely sheathing at the base, more or less puberulous ; the upper- 

 most leaves reduced to a dilated amplexicaul scarcely sheathing 

 petiole of I to 1 g in. long tipped with a short laciniate limb ; 

 umbels terminating the paniculately or corymbosely divided stem, 

 1| to 2 in. in diameter ; involucre and involucels wanting ; rays of 

 the umbel 12 to 20 ; flowers white or from whitish to greenish ; 

 ovary densely setose. 



PuNCo Andongo, — In rocky bushy pastures at the banks of .streams 

 within the fortified lines of Pungo Andongo ; fl., one specimen in 

 December 1856, more abundant in May 1857. No. 2504. 



This plant is held in high repute by the native medical men on 

 account of its aromatic and stimulating root ; it is thus becoming rarer 

 and rarer in the vicinity of the settlements ; it is used in cases of 

 spasmodic coHc and diarrhoea. The native name is " Dongolundo." 



8. FffiNICULUM Tourn., Mill. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. i. 

 p. 902. 



1. F. vulgare Mill. Gard. Diet., edit. 8, n. 1 (17G8). 



GoLUN(i(> Alto and Puxiio Andongo. — In rocky places, wild and 

 cultivated, thriving well, frequent ; fl. and fr. April 1854 and April 

 1857. Nos. 2505 and 25056. 



See Welw. Apont., p. 552 under n. 109. 



9. PHYSOTRICHIA Hiern in Journ. Bot. xi. p. 161, t. 132 

 (June 1873); Hook. Ic. PI. xiv. p. 41, t. 1358 (Oct. 1881). 



1. P. Welwitschii Hiern, I.e. 



PuNGo Andongo. — A perennial herb, but little aromatic, with the 

 habit of a 'rnnljiHiiiii ; root thick, vertical, branched at the ape.x below 

 the ground ; flowering stems several, scape-like, sparingly branched in 

 the upper part, 2 to 3 ft. high ; leaves coriaceous, rather hard, ternately 

 or pinnately compound ; ultimate leaflets crenate-dentate, narrowed 

 towards the base, rather strongly nerved, not rarely folded in the 

 living state ; flowers white, the outer ones in each umbel hermaphrodite, 

 the central ones male : bracts of the involucre and involucels numerous, 

 sub-membranous ; calyx-teeth elongate-subulate, conspicuous, acute, 

 somewhat unequal, rather erect, persistent, indurated and scarcely or 

 but little accrescent in fruit ; petals equal, obovate or rather obcor- 

 date, inflexed at the apex, not radiant ; stylopods thick, somewhat 

 lobed ; stigmas large, atroi)urpureous ; fruit-ridges 10, densely and 

 irregularly covered with straight cylindrical obtuse conspicuous papilla; 

 which when old become turgid and appear bladdery : mericarps nearly 

 flat in the face ; seeds hollowed on the face. In thinly bushy sandy 

 places not far from the left bank of the river Cuije. near Banza de 

 Quitage towards Quibinda ; fl. and sparingly in fr. March 1857. 

 No. 2512. 



10. PEUCEDANUM Tourn., L. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. i. 

 p. 918. 



1. P. fraxinifolium Jliein ex Oliv. in Tran.s Linn. Soc. xxix. 

 p. 79, t. 42 (1873); Hiern in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. iii. p. 22; 

 Ficalho, PI. Utei.s, j). 192 (1884); Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. p. 322 

 (1892). Steganotcenia araliacea var. «, A. Rich. Fl. Abyss, i. 



