UMDELLIFERAE. 745 1I0RSFIELDIA. 



Genus heterornorphum ex Umbelliferarum Ordine tam habitu, turn 

 corollae indole et aestivatione ad Araliaceas ducens: 



HORSFIELDIA bl. Capitula subsessilia spicatim disposita, 

 involucris polyphyllis imbricatis. Calyx pilis setosis hispidus, 

 margine obsolete Petala aequalia acuta aestivatione valvata. Dis- 

 cus epigynus majusculus nudus. Styli ad basin usque distiueti, 

 fihformes, stigmate parvo capitati. Fructus subovatus hispidus 

 evittatus, comnrissura parum angustata, bipartibilis, mericarpiis 

 dorso 3-costatis. Semen oblongo-cyliudricum, embryi miuutissimi 

 cotyledoues ovato-subrotuudae plano-convexae. 



1. Horsfleldia acnleata (bl. mis.) dc. Prodr. IV. p. 87. Bennet 

 in IJorsf. PI. Jav. rar. ƒ?. 123, tab. 26. Molkenb. PI. Jungh. I. p. 

 95. — Schuberlia aculeata Bl. Bijdr. p. 884. — Sch. lomenlosa 

 ai Ilerb. L. B. //Stirps erecta, stricta, circiter 10-pedalis, basi lig- 

 nosa, sursum in ramos paucos divisa, habitum Ricini communis quo- 

 dammodo referens, in rupibus arenosis solitaria degens" (junghuhn). 

 Cauhs cylindricus, aculeis brevibus aduncis armatus, intus cavus. 

 ftami pariter aculeati, apice foliosi; folia maxima, sesquipedalia, pel- 

 tata, subrotunda, palmatiloba, lobis 7—10 ultra medium liberis,in- 

 fenonbus brevioribus subovatis, acute inciso-serratis, incisuris den- 

 ticulahs, supraviridiaglabra,subtusalbido-lanata, nervis fuscescenti- 

 bus exceptis;pili apice stellato-ramulosi crispuli. Petioli foliis longiores 

 teretes, inferne aculeati, superne albido-lauati. Panicula terminalis 

 ramosissima ; rami inferiores foliis parum mutatis sed non peltatis 

 sutiulti; ultimi 6 — 9-pollicares, undique capitula pisi minoris magn. 

 ferentes. 



^ Java, in de bergstreken, op den Oengaran 3—4000', Blitarau, 

 e «e, iu Banjoemas, op den Tjerimai, door horsfield, blume en 

 JWGüunN ontdekt.— Gompong sund., of Gorang-ireng of 

 Doedowave. 



Ordo XXXVII. AEALIACEAE jüss. 



Aioores vel frutices, rarius herbae, succo aqueo, erecti, seauden- 



» lol i is alternis rarissime oppositis, simplicibus, digitatis vel pin- 



=*> petiolis basi saepius incrassata substipulaceo-dilafafis, vel sti- 



