Coriandrum.] umbellifer,e. 135 



the carpels not readily separating, the ribs scarcely prominent, and no 

 vittee. 



The genus consists of a single species. 



1. C. sativum, Linn. ; DC. Prod. iv. 250 ; Wight, Ic. t. 516., An erect, 

 branching, glabrous" annual, 1 to 1£ ft. high, emitting a very disagreeable 

 smell when rubbed. Lowest leaves once or twice pinnate, with broadly ovate 

 or cuneate deeply cut segments ; the others more divided, with linear seg- 

 ments, few and slender in the uppermost. Umbels terminal, rather small, of 

 5 to 8 rays, without general involucre, and only a few slender bracts to the 

 partial ones. Flowers white. Fruits about 2 lines diameter. 



In waste places, Hance and others. A native of the Levant, and introduced by cultiva- 

 tion, has now spread as a weed over a great part of Europe and Asia. 



Order LIL ARALIACE^. 



Calyx combined with the ovary, either entirely so or showing a minute 

 border round the summit, with as many teeth as petals. Petals usually 4 or 5, 

 or rarely more, valvate or rarely imbricate in the bud, inserted round an 

 epigynous disk, or sometimes none. Stamens as many, alternating with the 

 petals. Ovary inferior, 2- to 5- or more celled, with one pendulous ovule in 

 each cell. Styles as many as cells, usually short, and sometimes united into 

 one or reduced to a small cone, stigmatic at the top. Fruit not readily sepa- 

 rating into carpels, indehiscent, and usually succulent. Seeds solitary in 

 each cell. Embryo minute, in a fleshy albumen. — Trees, shrubs, or climbers, 

 or very rarely herbs. Leaves simple or compound. Flowers usually small, 

 in heads or simple umbels, which are either solitary or arranged in racemes 

 or panicles. 



A considerable Order, chiefly tropical, with a very few species extending into more tem- 

 perate regions, both in the New World and the Old. 



Leaves twice or thrice pinnate.' Petals imbricate. Styles free . . „ 1. Abalia. 

 Leaves digitate. Petals valvate. Styles united in a cone .... 2. Paratropia. 

 Leaves entire or lobed. Petals valvate. Styles united in a cone . . 3. Dendropanax. 



1. ARALIA, Linn. 



Flowers polygamous. Umbels paniculate. Calyx distinctly 5 -toothed. 

 Petals 5, imbricate in the bud. Styles 2 to 5, free. Berry 2- to 5-celled. — 

 Trees, shrubs, or herbs. Leaves decompound, usually twice or thrice pinnate, 

 very rarely digitate, 



A small genus, dispersed over North America and eastern Asia. 



1. A. chinensis, Linn. ; DC. Prod. iv. 259. A tree, with the branches, 

 leaves, and inflorescences more or less villous, and armed with scattered prickles. 

 Leaves twice or three times pinnate, usually with 7 to 9 pinnse, and 7 to 11 

 leaflets on each, or some of these replaced by a secondary pinna of 3 or 5 

 leaflets. Leaflets nearly sessile on the common stalks, ovate-cordate or ovate- 

 lanceolate, simply or doubly serrate, about \\ in. long, often oblique at the 

 base. Flowers 20 to 30 or more in each umbel ; the umbels pedunculate, on 



