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Punjab ; Edgeworih, Vicary, Aitcheson. Scindk ; Stocks. —'Distrxb, Aden, Nubia. 

 ^ Subprostrate, glandular-pubemlous or glabrate ; branches 8-18 in., much 

 dmded. Leaves ^^ in., opposite or nearly so petiole ^ in. Cynies sessile (or nearly 

 so) at the nodes. Sepals ^ in., roundish. Petals much shorter than the sepals, obovate, 

 clawed, the npper margin incised or nearly fimbriate. Stamens 6-7 (Oliver). Carpels 

 in fruit as long as the sepals, hemispheric, dehiscing yentrally; margins of the 

 valves inflexed so as to retain the seed until moistened. Seed reniform, longer than 

 broad, compressed, concavo-convex, rerfectlv smooth, whitish. 



Order LXX. 



(By 0. B. Clarke.) 



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• Herbs (rarely in non-Indian species shrubs or trees). Leaves alternate, 

 JiBually divided or dissected^ sometimes simple, petiole generally sheathing at 

 the base ] stipules 0. -F7ow;er5 hermaphrodite or polyganious, in compound uxnbels 

 (sunple in MydrocotyU and Bupleurum)^ exterior of the umbel sometimes 

 radiant ; umbels with involucriform bracts at the base of the general one and 

 raacteoles at the base of the partial ones (umbellules). Calyx-tube adnate to 

 the ovary, limb or 5- toothed. Petals 5, epigynous, often unec^ual, and with 

 ? ^^iau fold on the face, plane or emargmate or 2-lobed with the apex 

 inflexed ; imbricated in bud, in Hydrocotyle sometimes valvate. Stamens 6, 

 ^P^nous. Ovary inferior, 2-celled, disc 2-lobed ; styles 2, stigmas capitellate ; 

 ovules 1 in each cell, pendulous. Fruit of 2 indehiscent dorsally or laterally 

 compressed carpels, separated by a commissure ; carpels each attached to and 

 otten pendulous from a slender often forked axis (carpophore), with 5 primary 

 ™8:e3 (1 dorsal, 2 marginal and 2 intermediate) and often 4 secondary ones 

 ?2tercalated between these; pericai-p often traversed by oil canals (^-ittse). Seed 

 in each carpel, pendulous, albumen cartilaginous; embryo small, next the 

 ^iliun, radicle superior. — Distrib. Species l^SOO, mainly in Europe, North 

 Alnca, AVest Central and North Asia ; a few are North American, tropical, and 

 natives of the Southern Hemisphere. 



^: Tordylium is stated in Ge7i, PI i. 871 to be Himalayan. 

 Cinaens. 



_An umbellifer in flower, Edgw. No. 175^ from the North-west Himalaya, alt. 

 "0-7000 ft, may be Johrenia alpina, Fenzl. 



Clavis of the Genera (as to tJie Indian species only). 



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We have seen no spe* 



Umbels simple or irregularly compound. 



^Series J. Keterosciadiae. 



J^ves undivided. Stipulate. Frnit laterally compressed 



ij^^es spinulose-serrate. Flowers capitate 2. ERrNortrM, 



***ves compound not spinulose. Umbels subcoryrabase . . 8. Sanicula. 



1, Hydrocotyle. 



J Series II. Baplozyg-ice. Umbels compound* Secondary r 

 ^^t inconspicuous (except in Trachydium Q^uguin). 



^j .^^IBE I. Ammlneffi. Fruit laterally compressed, or at least 

 *^e commissure, not or verv obscurely winded. 



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