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14. LICHTENSTEINIA, Ch. and Schl. 
Calyx-margin 5-toothed. Petals elliptic, with a very long, 
inflexed point. Fruit nearly terete, crowned with the erect 
calycine teeth, surmounted by the short, spreading’ styles and 
conical stylopods ; carpels smooth, 5-ridged, the ridges fili- 
form, equal, the lateral marginal ; vittz large, one under each 
ridge, but none in the commissure or furrows ; carpophore 2- 
parted.—/1. Cap. i. p. 542. . 
Aromatic perennials. Radical leaves variously cut, simple or 3-parted, 
pinnate or 2-pinnate ; cauline with imperfect lamine. Involucre many- 
leaved. Flowers white.—-6 species, dispersed. 
15. ANESORHIZA, Ch. and Schl. 
Calyx-margin 5-toothed. Petals elliptical, acuminate, more 
or less emarginate, with an inflexed point. Fruit 5-angled, 
prismatic, crowned by the calyx and inflexed styles; carpels 
convex at back, unequal, one of them 3-winged, the other 4- 
winged ; furrows 1-vittate ; commissure 2-vittate ; carpophore 
2-parted.— 7. Cap. ii. p. 544. 
Biennials or perennials, with aromatic roots; Anyswartel of colonists. 
Radical leaves petioled, pinnate-parted, cauline small and scale-like. Umbels 
many-rayed ; involucres many-leaved. Flowers white.—7 species, dis- 
persed. 
16. G@NANTHE, Linn. 
Calyx-margin 5-toothed, enlarged in fruit. Petals obovate, 
emarginate, with inflexed points. Stylopod conical. Fruit 
cylindrical-ovate, crowned with the long erect styles ; carpels 
with 5 obtuse, rather convex ridges, the lateral marginal and 
broader ; furrows 1-vittate ; carpophore indistinet.—J/7. Cap. 
il. p. 547. 
Smooth herbs, often aquatic.—O. filiformis, our only species, grows in 
dry places in the Western districts. It is an annual, with simple, filiform 
linear or linear-lanceolate leaves. Involucre and involucels of 3-5 subulate 
leaves. Flowers white. 
17. GLIA, Sond. 
Calyx-margin 5-toothed ; teeth triangular, acute, persistent, 
not enlarged in fruit. Petals obovate, subemarginate, with an 
inflexed, lanceolate point. Fruit ovate-oblong, subterete, 
crowned with the conical stylopod and spreading styles; car- 
pels with 5 equal, sharp, nearly wing-like ridges, the lateral 
marginal ; furrows. with single vitte ; commissure 2-vittate ; 
carpophore 2-parted.— Fl. Cap. i. p. 547. 
G. gummifera, Sond., the only species, grows in many places in the 
Western districts; it is the g/¢ of the Hott entots, who prepare from its roots 
