CENANTHE. 
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Vittae 5, 4 dorsal alternate with the 5 primary ribs and 1 com- 
missural. 
Tribe II. Seselinece. 
7. CEnanthe L. 
1. 05. pteridifolia Lowe. Aipo preto. 
Stoloniferous with large sessile filipendular-fasciculate fusi- 
form tuberous roots ; 1. decompound 2-4-pinnatisect, lfts. cu- 
neato-ovate or lanceolate inciso-toothed or pinnatifid, the’ir seg- 
ments or teeth acute or mucronate ; umbel of about 12 always 
slender rays ; fr. elliptic-oblong slightly compressed striated, 
tumid and corky at the sides or commissure, simple at the base, 
the length of its own pedic. or of the erect elongated persistent 
styles. — Prim. p. 30. Selinum divaricatum Buch ! 195. no. 292. 
— Herb. per. Mad. reg. 2, 3, c. Wet dripping perpendicular 
rocks in most of the principal ravines, as Bib. de S ta Luzia, 
dos Cayados, da Metade, de S. Jorge, Serra d’Agua under Pico 
Grande at the fountains, &c., and even on seacliffs in the 
north at S. Vicente, Passo d’Area, &c. June-Aug. — A large 
robust branched rank-growing pi. altogether smooth, with hand- 
some bright-gr. fern-like foliage and watery innocuous, not 
thick coloured acrid or poisonous juices. Boots creeping under- 
f round forming here and there at the base of the ann. st. 
undies (like those of the common garden Banunculus (_K. 
asiaticus L.)) of large often reddish-purple smooth tubers at- 
tenuated at each end, often as long and thick in the middle as 
the fingers and sessile at the crown of the st. St. ann. 2-5 ft. 
high and often an inch in diam. erect stout hollow round and 
even below, throwing out roots or fibres from the lower joints, 
angular strongly ribbed or furrowed and fork-branched up- 
wards, bright gr. juicy crisp and edible ; often purplish down- 
wards. L. very large often 2 ft. or more long and 1 ft. broad, 
the lower with broader ovate, the upper with narrower linear- 
lanceolate very distinct or remote and proportionately small 
lfts. Umbels rather small or inconspicuous on moderately long 
(2-4 in.) strongly ribbed stalks, not confluent, of from 7 or 8 to 
mostly 10 or 12 unequal primary rays about an in. long not 
thickening in fr., and numerous partial rays forming small dis- 
tinct heads of crowded minute dull w. or in bud greenish fl. 
Gen. inv. 1-5 or 6, partial about 10 ; all short linear acute gr. 
with the edges pellucid. Cal. -teeth distinct ovate acute erect in 
fr. h 1. all perfect equal. Pet. very unequal with a long strongly 
indexed or incurved point or narrow lobe. Stylopods large glo- 
bose and tumid. Styles in the fl. shorter or not longer than the 
pet. and divaricate ; in fr. much elongated slender and erect, as 
long a9 the ripe fr. and pale red or purplish, with their bases or 
stylopods still tumid and globose. Fr. about 2 lines long and 
