UMHEL LIFERAl . 



Fig. 137. Vertical section of flower of UniLielliferous plant, showing the inferior 

 two-celled ovary with one ovule in each cell. 



A very large Family in Europe and temperate Asia, but 

 of small importance in Indian botany. 



Observe the limb of the calyx usually reduced to a mere 

 rim (then said to be obsolete) : the tendency, in the outer 

 flowers of the umbels, to become irregular, the outside petals 

 being larger, recalling the relation of the ray and disk 

 florets in Compositae : the inflexed tips of the petals : the 

 ripe fruit, separating into its two carpels, which often remain 

 suspended from a slender stalk {carpophore) in the middle. 



