142 UMBELLIFERAE, | [Hillebrandia. 
of 2—5‘, oblique, cordate, rounded in outline, 4—8‘-in each diameter, 
irregularly 5—7—9-lobed, the lobes triangular, acute or obtuse, closely 
but irregularly serrulate, hispid all over with short papillose hairlets 
n the upper, along the veins only on the lower face. Stipules ovate- 
cordate, 6“. Peduncle from the axil of the uppermost leaf, 4— 8’ 
long, forking into a cymose many-flowered corymb, bibracteate at each 
bifurcation, the bracts cordate to ovate, the lowest 4—6 ng s 
promiscuous, the latter generally median. Male fl. on shorter pedicels 
than the female. Sepals 3—4’. Petals a spathulate, scarcely 3/2". 
Stamens nearly as long as the sepals. Fem. fl. Pedicels 4—6“, bibrac- 
teolate at or above the middle. Calycine lobes as long as the tube or 
longer, 3—4’. Petals cucullate, !/2“, Staminodia shorter. Capsule 4—6” 
in diameter, free in the upper third or half, 1-celled “ae least in the upper 
portion, — Mrs. Sinclair, pl. 37. 
Ka ! Hanalei and Wa ahu! asingle plant teil in a gulch of the W. slope 
of Kaola.; Molo — pali of Pelekunu ee ft.); Maui! of Lahaina, Kanapali, 
Wailuku, Waiehu, Hamakua, gene rally in deep ravines fig oT aust ; Nat. qe 
wer), and «Ak 
when well dey ee as on the pali of Pelekunu, is exceedingly showy and would suai 
attention if allies 
Orper XXXIX. UMBELLIFERAE. 
Calyx adnate to the ovary, generally with 5 small teeth. Petal 
inserted round an epigynous disk, imbricate, very rarely valvate. Sta- 
mens 5, alternate with the petals. Ovary inferior, 2-cell ed, with 1 pen- 
dulous ovule in each cell. Styles 2, with terminal stigmas. Fruit se- 
parating into 2 indehiscent dry carpels resembling seeds (called eaecoik: 
usually leaving a filiform axis entire or split in two. Each cvarpel m 
outside with 5 prominent ribs, and underneath their intervals ‘allen 
or within the pericarp are often longitudinal oil-tubes (vitt m 
minute, in a hard albumen. — Herbs, rarely shrubs. Vanes ausome: 
often much divided, the Niche usually dilated at the base, but no real 
stipules. Flowers usually small, in terminal or lateral umbels, or some- 
times reduced to heads, and often with one or more bracts forming an 
involucre at the base of the ua 
e ee widely dispersed o the a regions of both hemispheres, 
particularly the northern, with few Festa species 
Umbels simple ces superposed); fruit sntueatin compressed. 
¢ he 1. Hydrocotyle. 
Umbels irregularly co saint sowen partly sessile in head-like 
umbellets; fruit ovo’ oa 2. Sanicula. 
eoteadlns gularly co 
Fruit dorsally Per tay an margined, unarmed . . . 3. Peucedanum. 
eas see Se ee ae: 
Seed flat on the inner face 
, Daucus. 
5. Caucealis. 
