Araliaceae. 683 
M. ma. Abusir; Mariut; Alexandria-West and -Kast; Mandara; 
Abukir, sand coast and salt marshes of the interior. — M. p. 
Rosetta; Damietta. — D. i. D. a. sept. In deep sand, compicous by 
its thick, crimson spadix. 
Local name: mosrir (Schweinfurth); generally: zibb-el-ard; 
zubb-el-ard. 
Also known from the other littoral places of the Mediterranean region. 
Umbellifiorae. 
Herbs, ‘shrubs, trees or vines. Leaves alternate or opposite: 
blades mostly toothed, lobed, divided or compound. Flowers perfect, 
polygamous or divecious, variously clusteced, but commonly in umbels. 
Hypanthium present. Calyx of typically 5 relatively small sepals 
surmounting the hypanthium. Corolla typically of 5 petals. Ondroecium 
of as many stamens as there are sepals or petals. Gynoecium of 
2 united carpels or rarely more, or sometimes l-carpellary. Ovary 
inferior, 1-several-celled, sometimes surmounted by a stylopodium. 
Stigmas terminal or introrse. Fruit drupaceous or baceate, or dry 
and a cremacarp with smooth or spiny, ribbed or winged carpels. 
81. Araliaceae. 
Calyx-tube adnate to the ovary; limb forming a slightly raised line 
or short cup round the summit, truncate or toothed, or quite incon- 
spicuous. Petals 5 or more, or rarely 4, usually valvate and shortly 
inflected at the tip, and often cohering, rarely with a long inflected 
point, or obtuse and imbricate, inserted round an epigynous entire disk. 
Stamens as many as petals or sometimes (in genera not Hgyptian) 
more, inserted with them round the epigynous disk; anthers versatile, 
with parallel cells opening longitudinally. Ovary inferior, 2 or more 
celled, or very rarely 1-celled by abortion, with 1 anatropous ovule 
in each cell, pendulous from the summit. Styles as many as cells, 
either distinct erect and afterwards recurved with small terminal 
stigmas, or united in a cone, or reduced to a slight protuberance 
with as many stigmas as cells radiating on the summit and often 
scarcely conspicuous. Fruit more or less drupaceous and indehiscent, 
the epicarp succulent, rarely nearly dry and thin, always distinct 
from the endocarp, which is hardened into as many 1-seeded pyrenes 
as cells of the ovary, usually laterally compressed. Seed pendulous. 
testa very thin, albumen the shape of the pyrene, with an even 
surface, or rarely ruminate. Embryo minute, near the apex of the 
seed, the radical. superior. — Trees, shrubs, or woody climbers, 
very rarely (in a few specimens not Egyptian) herbs. Leaves 
