PENTANDRIA-DIGYNIA . 1 85 



ciliatls, subinde lacinia baseos profunda, suboppositis, 

 superioribus cuneato-decurrentibus, impari trifida,pri- 

 mordialia minima praa reliquis, inferiora petiolata , pe- 

 tiolo basi in vaginam angustam , margine albo-mem- 

 branaceam expanso,plus minus bispidulo, reliqua sul- 

 fulta vagina petiolari simili pro petiolo . Umbells so- 

 litarise, terminales, et laterales oppositifoliae , bi-quin- 

 queradiatae , plus minus longe pedunculatae . Pedunculi 

 crassi , striati , bispidi . Involucrum universale di-peii- 

 taphyllum, umbella multo brevius, fobolis oblongo-lan- 

 ceolatis, acutis , vel obtusis , albo-marginatis , subinae- 

 qualibus . Umbellae radii longi, crassi, striati, bispidi, 

 scabri, subaequales . Involucella pentaphylla, flores non 

 radiantes subaequantia, aut breviora , foliolis ovatis,vel 

 ovato-oblongis, acutis , aut obtusis , late albo-margina- 

 tis , et ciliatis, nervis dorsalibus hispidulis . Marginis 

 calycinalis lacinise latae, ovatae, breves . Corollae passim 

 ludunt albae^vel rubrae . Petala radiantia grandiuscula, 

 biloba , lobis subrotundis; reliqua obcordata . Diache- 

 nium ovoideum , breve , turgidum, dorso valde conve- 

 xum , e latere commissurali compressum, facie commis- 

 surali angustata , costis armatum aculeis subulatis , 

 letrorsum aculeolato-scaberrimis, apice glochidati», vel 

 uncinatis, latitudine fructus brevioribus, maturum saepe 

 rubens. Valleculae tuberculato-muricatcB, tuberculis pro- 

 pe margines commissurarum plerumque paulo majori- 

 bus . Carpophorum filiforme bipartitum , demum libe- 

 lum , acheniis pendulis . 



TORILIS . 



Adans. Famill. des pl. tom. 2^. p. 99. Spr.Prodr. p. a.^., 

 et in Rom. ct Schult.Syst.veg. G. p.XLI. GcBrtn. 

 De fruct. et semin. i. p. 82. tab. 2,0. Smith. EngL 

 Fl.SL.p.^s.. De Cand.Frodr.4-P' 2.iii. Koch.Syn. 

 Fl. Germ. et Helv. 1. p. 3i3. 



Urabella composita . Flores fere omnes fertiles . In- 

 volucrum iiniversale mono-polyphyllum , vel nul- 

 lum . Involucella pentaphylla . Margo calycinalis 

 liber quinquepartitus, persistens. Corollaj iii um- 

 bella externae parviradiantes, rarius ?equales. Sta- 

 mina corollam subsequantia. Antheras subrotundc^. 



