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Kingiane. N. O. Umbellifere. 
TAB. DXXXIX. 
AZORELLA TRIFURCATA. Gertn. 
Densissime cespitosa, foliis glabris rigidis tripartitis laciniis 
subeequalibus late subulatis cuspidatis, petiolo _ dilatato- 
vaginato filamentis tenuissimis valde deciduis ciliato, um- 
bella subsessili, involucri foliolis parvis subulatis basi 
coadunatis subciliatis. 
Chamitis trifurcata. Gaertn. Fruct. v. 1, p. 95, tab. 22, f. 4. (sub 
. Ch. tricuspidate). 
Azorella tricuspidata. Lam. Iilustr. v. 2, tab. 189, f. 4, 6.—h* 
(excl. syn.) Dict. Suppl. v. 1, p. 551. (excl. most of the syn.) 
Has. Terra del Fuego. Sir Joseph Banks. Straits of Magellan. 
Coptain King. ; 
This little plant is well figured by Gaertner, from specimens 
in Sir Joseph Banks’s Herbarium; the fruit and leaf being 
exactly characteristic of those of our specimens. is figure 
seems to have escaped the notice of De Candolle; while by 
Lamarck and Sprengel, who prohably never saw the plant, and 
the former of whom has given Geertner’s figures, it has been 
strangely confounded with the Bolax glebaria, (See our TAs. 
cpxcil. of vol. 4). The fruit and leaves are both quite different. 
Our plant forms very dense tufts; its short branches every- 
where clothed with rigid, tricuspidate, spreading or reflexed 
leaves, quite destitute of pubescence: —the long sheathing 
bases are, in a young state, and then only, fringed with very 
slender hairs; the old leaves are perfectly destitute of them. 
Peduncle very short, not rising above the leaves, bearing a 
simple umbel of 3-5 flowers, and about as many broadly subu- 
late involucral leaves, united by their bases, and there minutely 
frinzed. Petals ovate, involute. Fruit quite glabrous, ovate, 
slightly compressed laterally, scarcely so at the back, so that 
the transverse section is oval or elliptical. Each mericarp has 
five stout, nearly equidistant, ribs, the lateral ones at the com- 
missure. 
_4ig. 1. Front, and—/. 2. back view of a leaf, the marginal 
cilize having fallen away. /.3. Flower. /.4. Fruit. f. 5. Sec- 
tion of ditto :—magnified. 
* Copied from Geertner. 
