Ill. POLYPETALEZ. 
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Dicotyledonous plants, with a polypetalous corolla. 
I. EPIPETALE4, i 
Polypetalous plants, with epigynous stamens, and inferior ovaries. 
75. eos: 76. ARALIACES: 
ORDER LXXV. 
UMBELLIFERZ. 
Apiacea.—Lindley. 
Cuaracters.—Herbs, with fistulous stems often furrow- 
ed, and alternate sheathing leaves, generally divided or com- 
pound ; flowers small, white, or yellow, disposed in simple 
or compound umbels, and generally surrounded by involu- 
cres ; calyx superior, with the limb absent, entire, or of 5 
teeth ; petals 5, inserted on a fleshy epigynous disk ; stamens 
5, alternate with the petals, estivation incurved ; ovary 2- 
celled, each cell having 1 pendulous ovale, styles 2, with a 
simple stigma ; pericarp 2 acheniums (carpels), united bya = 
central axis or columella ; carpels with ridges, separated by 
furrows, in which are often found vitte, small cavities con- 
taining oil ; seed with a —* or fleshy —_ Acer 
