LXVIII. UMBELLIFERE (HIERN). 3 
Wings of the fruit separated at the apex by a deep 
narrowsinus . . ..... . .. . . . 18, Lerepuria. 
Margins of the fruit thickened. . . . . . . . . . 19, Mavapama. 
Umbels regularly compound. Vitte within the prominent secon- 
dary ridges. (Dirtozye1m.) 
Fruit glabrous or papilloso-hispidulous. 
Fruit subglobose. Involucre 0 (cultivated) . . . . . . Coriandrum. 
Fruit narrowly oblong. Involucre of a few bracts (cultivated). Cuminum. 
Fruit setose. 
Seeds not deeply sulcate in front. . . . . . . . . . 20. Daucus. 
Seeds deeply sulcate in front . 2. 2. 2. 2... . . . 21. Caucanis. 
Of the genera represented only by cultivated species we have the following :— 
Coriandrum sativum, L., DC. Prod. iv. 250. (Coriander.) An erect glabrous annual 
or biennial, with finely divided leaves, globose 10-ribbed fruit, white unequal petals, no 
involucre, and few-leaved involucels. Nubia, Sennaar, and Abyssinia. 
Cuminum Cyminum, L., DC. Prod. iv. 201. (Cumin.) An erect glabrous annual, 
with finely divided leaves, laterally contracted hairy fruit, white or reddish flowers, and 
2-4-leaved involucre and involucels. Sennaar? 
Feniculum capillaceum, Gilib. F1. Lithuan. (1782); F. officinale, Allioni, F. Piede- 
mont. ii. 25 (1785); F’. vulgare, Gertn. Carp. i. 105, t. 23, f. 5 (1788), DC. Prod. 
iv. 142 (1830.) Fennel. An erect, tall, glabrous biennial, with very finely divided 
leaves, and neither involucre nor involucels. Abyssinia, in gardens, Schweinfurth. 
1. HYDROCOTYLE, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. i. 872. 
Calyx with obsolete lobes. Petals entire, somewhat concave, and 
often inflexed at the apex, valvular or imbricated in bud. Disk flat; styles 
filiform from the base. Fruit laterally compressed, marked with acute or 
slight primary ridges, and without or rarely with weak secondary ridges, 
often subdidymous and cordate or emarginate at the base, without vitte ; 
lateral ridges often concealed in the narrow commissure ; carpophore 0, 
commissure narrow. Seeds laterally compressed.—Annual or peren- 
nial herbs, usually prostrate and creeping, rarely erect, growing in moist 
laces. Leaves flat, orbicular, or subreniform, usually with crenate 
obes, peltate or cordate, membranous, stalked, palmately veined, stipu- 
late. Flowers in umbels, single or irregularly compound, often in 
globose capitula, with involucre, often monecious, usually white. 
Occurs in various parts of the world, especially in the temperate regions of the 
Northern hemisphere. 
Petals valvular in bud. Fruit without secondary ridges. (Euny- 
DROCOTYLE ) * ona 
Teaves orhicular, peltately attached by the centre. . . . . 1. H. Bonariensis. 
Leaves rounded or reniform-cordate, with a deep sinus reaching 
to the attachment of the petiole. 
Fruits in nearly sessile heads . . 
Fruits in distinctly peduncled heads. 
Heads many-flowered. 
. A. americana. 
nw 
Glabrous, erect . 8. H. javanica. 
Piloso-hispid, creeping 4. H. moschata. 
Heads few-flowered. 
Slender . . . 5. Hi. nitidula, 
Robust . toe ee ee ee ee ee ee + 6. A natans. 
Petals imbricate in bud. Fruit with faint secondary ridges. (CEN- J 
TELLA.). . . . Saree ; 7. H. asiatica, 
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