CaUCalu.] LXVIII. UMBELLIFERiE (hIERN). 2? 



phore 0. Section of seeds suborbicular, with a deep furrow reaching 

 nearly to the centre. — Dancus mclananthos, Steud. in Hb. Schimp. Abyss. 

 sec. ii. n. 1145 ; Agrocliaris melanantltay Hochst. in Flora 1844, 19 ; 

 Agrocharis ffracilis, Hook. f. in Journ. Linn. Soc. vi. 9. 



Upper Guinea. Fernando Po, alt. 7000 ft.; fl. December, Mann! Cameroons 

 mountains, 7000-8000 ft. alt. ; fl. December, fr. January, Mann I 



Nile laand. Abyssinia, Scldmper ! fl. in June, Roth ! JSchimper, 9300 ft. alt. ; 

 fl. and fr. October. 



Order LXIX. ARALIACEiE. (By Mr. W. P. Hiem.) 



Tube of the calyx adnate to the ovary, with a short sinuous or 

 obscurely dentate marg-in. Petals usually 5, valvularj inserted on the 

 interior of the calyx at the base of the free margin. Stamens usually 5, 

 alternate with the petals and inserted along" the same line ; filaments 

 more or less slender, intiexed at the apex at least in bud; anthers 

 ovate or oblong-, affixed on the back to the filament, 2-celled, dehiscinj? 

 longitudinally. Epigynous disk convex or conical; ovary inferior, 

 2- or many-celled ; each cell having* 1 pendulous anatropous ovule. 

 Styles as many as the cells in the ovary (or solitary and lobed), erect 

 or at length recurved. Fruit drupaceous or dry, globose or ovoid, 

 terete or angular when dry, with as many cells and seeds as the ovary, 

 not separating and without a carpophore. Seeds solitary in the cells 

 and pendulous; albumen sulcate, ruminated or smooth, copious; 

 embryo small next the hile; radicle superior. Trees or tall snrubs, 

 glabrous or covered with stellate pubescence or tomentum. Leaves 

 alternate compound or deeply lobed, usually coriaceous and on long 

 petioles which clasp the branch at their base ; stipules within and partly 

 adnate to the petioles. Inflorescence terminal or subterminal. Flowers 

 hermaphrodite or polygamous, spicate or racemose, with bracts and 

 bracteoles. Differs as to tropical African species from Umbelliferae, 

 which are usually herbaceous, either by the inflorescence not being 

 umbelled or by a drupaceous fruit not separating and without a carpo- 

 phore. 



A family of moderate size, chiefly found in the Tropics, though a few species occur in 

 temperate latitudes. 



Leaves pinnate. Flowers jointed to the pedicels, panicled. Albu- 

 men not ruminated. Ovary 2-celled ......... 1. Panax. 



Leaves (Jigitate or palmatipartite. Flowers continuous with the 

 pedicels. 

 Flowers umbelled or capitulate. Albumen sulcate, ovary and 



fruit 5 or many-celled .2. Heptapledrum. 



Flowers spicate or racemose. Albumen ruminated, ovary and 



fruit 2-celied 3. Cussonia. 



1. PANAX, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant, i. 938. 



Tube of the calyx slightly exceeding the ovary with an entire un- 

 dulating mafgin or shortly toothed. Petals 5, broad at the base, 

 valvular, caducous. Stamens 5, with shortly oblong anthers. Styles 2, 



