366 LVI. UMBELLIFER®. [Azorella. 
under the umbel very unequal and sometimes united at the base. Calyx- 
lobes petal-like, as large as the petals and falling off with them. Petals 
fully I line long, acute but slightly imbricate. Disk thick, at first slightly 
convex, aftewards conical.—Dichopetalum ranunculaceum, F. Muell. in Hook. 
Kew Journ. vii. 378. t. ll, and in Trans. Phil. Inst. Vict. i. 102; Hook. f, 
Fl. Tasm. i. 157. t. 35. 
Victoria. Munyang mountains at an elevation of 5000 to 6000 ft., F. Mueller. 
mania. Mount Sorrel, Macquarrie Harbour, Gunn, Milligan; Mount Lapey- 
rouse, Oldfield. 
€ Victorian specimens are sprinkled with a few of the long hairs which are very abun- 
dant on the Tasmanian ones, but there appears to be no other difference. 
6. DIPLASPIS, Hook. f. 
(Pozoopsis, Hook. f.) 
Calyx-teeth inconspicuous. Petals ovate, imbricate in the bud. 
none besides the broad thick conical base of the styles. Fruit compressed 
from front to back, deeply furrowed on each side at the commissure. Carpels 
n fi 
Vittee none. Carpophore persistent. Seeds straight, flattened.—Perennials, 
with creeping rhizomes and dense tufts of radical leaves. Leaves —— 
orbicular, rather thick. Sca es simple with a terminal simple umbel o 
several often many flowers. 
The genus is confined to Australia. 
Glabrous. Leaves broadly ovate-cordate, quite entire. Flowers nu- 
der 20 in the umbels. , EX RI. . 457. 0. E M 
More or less hirsute with lon hairs. Leaves orbicular-cordate dis- — Sem 
tinctly erenate. Flowers numerous inthe umbel . . . . . . 2. D. cordifolia. 
l. D. hydrocotylea, Hook. f. in Hook. Lond. Journ. vi. 469, Es 
Tasm. i. 156. ¢. 84. Perennial, with a cree ing rhizome. Leaves radical, 
tufted, on rather long petioles, cordate, orbieular or ovate, thick with yw 
margins, under 3 in. and often not 4 in. diameter, glabrous or sprinkled w! 
a few hairs. Scapes 2 to 4 in. long, each with a single terminal bes 
12 to 20 flowers on pedicels of 1 to 2 lines. Involucre of a few uneq 
linear bracts. Petals obtuse. 
Victoria. Haidinger range, Bogong an er Mitta-Mitta mountains, F. Mueller. 
Tasmania. Nia Ber ge word eeu: gie alpine lakes, J. D. Hooker. — 
2. D. cordifolia, ook. f. Fl. Tasm. i. 157. Very near D. hydro 
tyléa, but rather larger, more or less hirsute with spreading hairs, the = 
tute margins of the leaves distinctly crenate, the flowers much more pec 
in the umbels, and the fruits considerably narrower.— Pocoopsis cordife 
ook. f. in Hook. Te. P t. 859. à 
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