Na 
Caucalis. | LXVIII. UMBELLIFERE& (HIERN). 2 
phore 0. Section of seeds suborbicular, with a deep furrow reaching 
nearly to the centre.— Daucus melananthos, Steud. in Hb. Schimp. Abyss. 
sec. 11. n. 1145; Agrocharis melanantha, Hochst. in Flora 1844, 19; 
Agrocharis gracilis, Hook. f. in Journ. Linn. Soe. vi. 9. 
Upper Guinea. Fernando Po, alt.*7000 ft.; fl. December, Mann! Cameroons 
mountains, 7000-8000 ft. alt.; fl. December, fr. January, Mann / 
Nile Land. Abyssinia, Schimper! fl. in June, Roth! Schimper, 9300 ft. alt.; 
fl. and fr. October. 
Orper LXIX. ARALIACEZ. (By Mr. W. P. Hiern.) 
Tube of the calyx adnate to the ovary, with a short sinuous or 
obscurely dentate margin. Petals usually 5, valvular, inserted on the 
interior of the calyx at the base of the free margin. Stamens usually 5, 
alternate with the petals and inserted along the same line; filaments 
more or less slender, inflexed at the apex at least in bud; anthers 
ovate or oblong, affixed on the back to the filament, 2-celled, dehiscing 
longitudinally. Epigynous disk convex or conical; ovary inferior, 
2- or many-celled; each cell having 1 pendulous anatropous ovule. 
Styles as many as the cells in the ovary (or solitary and lobed), erect 
or at length recurved. Fruit drupaceous or dry, globose or ovoid, 
terete or angular when dry, with as many cells and seeds as the ovary, 
not separating and without a carpophore. Seeds solitary in the cells 
and pendulous; albumen sulcate, ruminated or smooth, copious 
embryo small next the hile; radicle superior. Trees or tall shrubs, 
glabrous or covered with stellate pubescence or tomentum. Leaves 
alternate compound or deeply lobed, usually coriaceous and on long 
petioles which clasp the branch at their base ; stipules within and partly 
adnate to the petioles. Inflorescence terminal or subterminal. Flowers 
ermaphrodite or polygamous, spicate or racemose, with bracts and 
bracteoles. Differs as to tropical African species from Umbellifere, 
which are usually herbaceous, either by the inflorescence not being 
heed or by a drupaceous fruit not separating and without a carpo- 
ore. 
A family of moderate size, chiefly found in the Tropics, though a few species occur in - 
temperate latitudes, 
Leaves Pinnate. Flowers jointed to the pedicels, panicled. Albu- 
men notruminated. Ovary 2-celled er a 
aed ete or palmatipartite. Flowers continuous with the 
1Cels, 
F lowers umbelled or capitulate. Albumen sulcate, ovary and 
fruit 5 or many-celled . a rarer 
Owers Spicate or racemose. Albumen ruminated, ovary and 
fruit 2-celled . ee ek 
1. Panax. 
2. HEeprapLevuRUM. 
3. Cussonia. 
1. PANAX, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. i. 938. 
Tube of the calyx slightly exceeding the ovary with an entire un- 
dulating margin or shortly toothed. Petals 5, broad at the base, 
valvular, caducous. Stamens 5, with shortly oblong anthers. Styles 2, 
