430 LXVII. UMBELLIFERE. [Peucedanum 
of about.the same length, 2 to 34 in. broad; leaflets pinnately 
3-5-partite ; segments obovate or oblong, rounded or apiculate 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, acuté, entire, 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 2 in. long in fruit: flowers yellowish or greenish-white ; fruit 
3 to 4 in. long, obovate-oblong, dorsally compressed, $ to } in. 
broad, glabrous ; mericarps winged. 
Hortta.—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. Pl. 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. 
Huitia.—aA herb, 5 to 8 ft. high, annual biennial or triennial, with 
a habit suggestive of Levisticum officinale Koch ; stem straight, ranging 
up to 14 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, subtruncate 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 Penicillaria near Lopollo ; in young 
fl. Feb. 1860. No. 25240. In neglected fields formerly planted with 
Penicillaria at Monino ; fl. April 1860. A form with acutely lobed 
leaf-segments. No. 2525. 
