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Cr. 3 —E»rriPETALJGE. Juss. 
Torus lining the tube of the calyx, and forming at its extremi- 
ty a small disk (epigynous) on the summit of the ovary, which 
coheres with the calyx-tube. Petals distinct, and with the. sta- 
mens, inserted upon the outside of the disk. 
ORDER LXXVII—UMBELLIFERZ. Juss. 
Calyx 4-toothed, or entire. Petals 5, inserted on the outside of a 
fleshy dise, around the top of the ovary, alternate with the teeth of the 
calyx, often inflexed at the point, the inflexed portion cohering with 
the middle vein of the lamina: æstivation somewhat imbricate, rarely 
valvate. Stamens 5, alternate with the petals, distinct, folded back 
during estivation: anthers ovate, 2-celled, dehiscing longitudinally. 
Ovarium cohering entirely and closely with the calyx, crowned by a 
fleshy dise (an expansion of the torus), 2-celled : ovules solitary, pen- 
dulous : styles 2, simple ; their bases more or less thickened and fleshy 
(stylopodia), covering the disc and top of the ovary: stigmas simple. 
Fruit dry (a cremocarpium), consisting of 2 carpels (or mericarpia ) 
which adhere by their face (commissura) to a common axis ( carpopho- 
rum), but in maturity separate from it, and are pendulous : each meri- 
carp indehiscent, traversed by 5 longitudinal primary ridges (juga pri- 
maria), one opposite to each petal and each stamen ; and often also by 
alternating secondary ones (juga secundaria), the ridges being sepa- 
rated by channels or interstices. In the substance of the pericarp are 
linear ducts or canals (vitte ), full of an oily or resinous matter ; these 
are usually lodged in the interstices, sometimes below the ridges, rare- 
ly wanting. Seed pendulous, usually cohering with the carpel, rarely 
loose, Embryo minute, at the base (that is, at the apex of the fruit) 
of a copius horny albumen : radicle superior, pointing to the hilum.— 
Herbaceous or rarely suffrutescent plants : stems usually fistular and 
furrowed. Leaves alternate, very rarely opposite, simple (without ar- 
ticulations), variously cut, sometimes reduced to the petiole ( phyllo- 
dium). Flowers in umbels, the umbel sometimes capitate, usually with 
an involucre. 
We have detailed the subdivisions of this order more than perhaps was necessary 
the few genera and species yet known as natives of the Peninsula; we have, 
ever, done so for the sake of iio botanists in the east who may not have access 
De Candolle's prodromus : for the same reason, we have added several species 
Which we suspect to be only naturalised. We have been obliged to omit Ammi In- 
, Wall. L. n. 7208, or Sison Ammi of the Madras herbarium, not having seen it. 
