glaucous-green, stem erect, branched; radical leaves petiolate, bipinnatisect, segments deeply pinnatifid, lobes linear-oblong, acute, entire or bifid; umbel 6–12-rayed; involucre and involucel wanting; fruit obovate, with a dilated, rather convex, margin; stylopodium depressed; calyx-teeth very minute. Petiole of radical leaves 1/2–4 inches long. Leaves 4–6 inches long, the middle pinna twice longer than the 2 lowest; the segments sessile, or the lower pair short petiolate; lobes 1–3 lines long, 1/2 line wide, the terminal mostly 3-fid, the lateral entire or bifid. Stem 1 1/2–2 feet high, with 1 pinnate leaf or quite naked, with sheaths at the ramifications. Rays of umbel unequal, 1–3 inches long. Flowers yellow. Fruit 4–5 lines long, 2–3 lines broad, much compressed. Ribs filiform, obtuse. Valleculæ 1-vittate; commissure 2-vittate; margin 3/4 line broad, more thickened than in the other species. In the form of the leaves it resembles P. alsaticum.
Distribution
SOUTH AFRICA Grassy fields on the Magalisberg, and near Vaalriver; Burke, 277; Zeyher, 118, 744. Nov.-Jan. (Herb. Hk. D. Sd.)
