430 Lxvii. UMBELLIFER.E. [Peucedanum 



of about the same length, 2 to 3| in. broad ; leaflets pinnately 

 3-5-partite ; segments obovate or oblong, rounded or apieulate at 

 the apex, usually more or less wedge-shaped at the base, more or 

 less scabrid, muriculate-scabrid on the margin, toothed, the 

 terminal one usually the largest ; upper leaves gradually smaller 

 with narrower segments ; umbels terminating the stem and 

 branches, 2 to 3 in. in diameter ; bracts of the general involucre 

 several, small, lanceolate or sub-linear, entire, acute, patent or 

 reflexed ; rays of the umbel 7 to 11, unequal, ranging up to 1 to 

 2 in. long, shortly muriculate ; bracts of the partial involucres 

 several, sub-linear, acute, entii'e, spreading, small, as long as some 

 and shorter than others of the rays of the small umbellules ; rays 

 of the umbellules 7 to 15, unequal, short in flower, ranging up 

 to i in. long in fruit : flowers yellowish or greenish-white ; fruit 

 -| to I in. long, obovate-oblong, dorsally compressed, i to | in. 

 broad, glabrous ; mericarps winged. 



HuiLLA. — In somewhat rocky bushy pastures between Mumpulla 

 and Nene, not common : fl. and ripe fr. end of May and beginning of 

 June 1860. No. 2520. In sandy bushy places among short grass, 

 about Lopollo and towards the lake of Ivantala ; also road near Ohai ; 

 fl. and young fr. April, May, and end of Feb. 1860. A form with more 

 obtuse teeth to the lobes of the leaves. No. 2521. 



11. LEFEBVREA A. Rich, in Ann, Sc. Nat., Ser. 2, xiv. pp. 260, 

 384, t. 15 f. 1 (1840); Benth.&Hook. f. Gen. PI. i. p. 921 (Lefeburia). 



1. L. benguelensis Welw. ex Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. p. 322 (1892) 

 (Lefeburia). In the absence of ripe fruit the determination of 

 the genus is .somewhat doubtful. 



HuiLLA. — A herb, 6 to 8 ft. high, annual biennial or triennial, with 

 a habit suggestive of Levisticuut nfficlnale Koch : stem straight, ranging 

 up to H in. in diameter at the base, quite glabrous, glossy, bright 

 blood-red below, decked with blood-red lines or spots above ; with 

 elongated branches from the base, tumid at the nodes ; lower branches 

 4 to 5 ft. long, spreading or erect-patent, the upper ones gradually 

 shorter, all in the axils of variously dissected or pinnate widely and 

 long-sheathing leaves ; radical leaves as well as the upper leaves very 

 variable as to the shape of their leaflets ; general involucre wanting ; 

 bracts of the partial involucels 6 to 8 ; flowers polygamous ; the central 

 umbels hermaphrodite, the lateral ones mostly male, apparently without 

 styles or with rudimentary ones ; flowers from greenish to yellowish ; 

 calyx-limb inconspicuously toothed ; petals ovate-lanceolate, involute 

 at the apex : stamens longer than the petals, with red anthers ; stylo- 

 pods large, turgid in fruit, deflexed on both sides : fruit dorsally 

 compressed, obovate, subtrancate at the apex, winged at the margin ; 

 mericarps marked somewhat inconspicuously with 3 obtuse ridges 

 almost obsolete towards the base of the fruit, the two lateral ones 

 passing into the wings of the fruit. In the drier hilly places near 

 Lopollo and among plantations of Sorghum, abundant; fl. and young fr. 

 March 1860. Fruiting specimens lost in the war with the Monanos. 

 No. 2524. Among plantations of PeincUlaria near Lopollo ; in young 

 fl. Feb. 1860. No. 2524a. In neglected fields formerly planted with 

 Penicillaria at Monino ; fl. April 1860. A form with acutely lobed 

 leaf -segments. No. 2525. 



