Pimpinella| LXVII, UMBELLIFER&. 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 4 to 14 in. long tipped with a short laciniate limb ; 
umbels terminating the paniculately or corymbosely divided stem, 
1} to 2in. in diameter ; involucre and involucels wanting ; rays of 
the umbel 12 to 20; flowers white or from whitish to greenish ; 
ovary densely setose. 
PunGo ANponGo,—In rocky bushy pastures at the banks of streams 
within the fortified lines of Pungo Andongo; fi., 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 colic and diarrhoea. The native name is ‘‘ Dongolundo.” 
5 FENICULUM Tourn., Mill.; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Pl. i. 
p. 902. 
1. F. vulgare Mill. Gard. Dict., edit. 8, n. 1 (1768). 
GoLunco ALTo and Punco ANDoNnGo.—In rocky places, wild and 
cultivated, thriving well, frequent; fl. and fr. April 1854 and April 
1857. Nos. 2505 and 2505d. 
See Welw. Apont., p. 552 under n. 109. 
9, PHYSOTRICHIA Hiern in Journ. Bot. xi. p. 161, t. 132 
(June 1873); Hook. Ic. Pl. xiv. p. 41, t. 1358 (Oct. 1881). 
1. P. Welwitschii Hiern, é.c. 
Punco AnpDonGo.—A perennial herb, but little aromatic, with the 
habit of a Tordyliwm ; root thick, vertical, branched at the apex 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, atropurpureous; fruit-ridges 10, densely and 
irregularly covered with straight cylindrical obtuse conspicuous papillee 
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 
Quiaee towards Quibinda; fl. and sparingly in fr. March 1857. 
o. 2512. 
10. PEUCEDANUM Tourn., L. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Pl. i. 
p. 918. 
1. P. fraxinifolium Hiern ex Oliv. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxix. 
p. 79, t. 42 (1873); Hiern in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. ii. p. 22; 
Ficalho, Pl. Uteis, p. 192 (1884); Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. p. 322 
(1892). Steganotenia arahacea var. a, A. Rich. Fl. Abyss. i. 
