tall, branching , villous; radical leaves pinnately or bi-pinnately cut, hairy, with broadly wedge-shaped, trifid or laciniate segments; stem-leaves three-parted, the upper ones simple; flowers panicled; sepals reflexed; fruits obovate, compressed; margined, minutely tuberculed on the disc, with a short beak. Root fibrous. Radical leaves numerous, on long petioles, either 3 parted with the middle lobe petiolate, or pinnate, 2 pairs and an odd one, or sub-bipinnate, always hairy. Stems diffuse, cymoso-paniculate. Carpels sometimes nearly smooth.
Distribution
SOUTH AFRICA In moist grassy places. Near Capetown, W. H. H. Uitenhage, Zeyher! Drege! Albany, T. Williamson. (Herb. T.C.D., Hook., Sond.)
