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UMBELLIFER./E. CXXXIX. CALDASIA. CXL. SPHALLEROCARPUS. CXLI. MOLOPOSPERMUM. 



brous ; leaves ternately decompound, rather hispid on both sur- 

 faces ; leaflets ovate, acuminated, pinnatifidly cut ; fruit rather 

 strigose ; styles permanent, divaricate. Native of Japan. 

 Myrrhis aristata, Spreng. umb. spec. 133. Schultes, syst. 6. p. 

 512. Said to be allied to Urosporum dulce, and probably a 

 species of that genus. 



Amned Cicely. PI. 2 to 3 feet. 



23 C. MI'NIMUM (Vand. in Roem. script, p. 56.) stems nume- 

 rous, hairy ; radical leaves flat on the ground, biternate, hairy ; 

 leaflets somewhat 3-lobed, cut ; involucra wanting ; involucels 

 usually of about 7 leaves. On the mountains about Milan. 

 Vittm. suppl. p. 369. Schultes, syst. 6. p. 524. Moretti sus- 

 pects this to be nothing but a variety of C. hirsutum. 



Least Cicely. PI. ^ foot. 



24 C. TENUIFOLIUM (Poir. suppl. 4. p. 342. but not of Stev.) 

 plant glabrous ; leaves decompound ; leaflets finely cut, acute ; 

 fruit nearly glabrous, profoundly ribbed. Native of the kingdom 

 of Morocco. Myrrhis tenuifolia, Schultes, syst. 6. p. 520. 



Fine-leaved Cicely. PI. 1 to 2 feet? 



Cult. All the species are of the most easy culture, and will 

 grow in any soil. 



CXXXIX. CALDA'SIA (in honour of J.Caldas, a naturalist 

 of Santa Fe de Bogota). Lag. am. nat. 1821. no. 2. p. 98. obs. 

 apar. p. 26. and diss. in litt. D. C. coll. diss. 5. p. 60. t. 2. f. 

 1. but not of Willd. nor Muds.- Myrrhis, Knntli, nov. gen. 

 amer. 5. p. 13. t. 419. but not of Koch. 



LIN. SYST. Penidndria, Digynia. Margin of calyx obsolete. 

 Petals oval, with an entire subinvolute point, pilose on the 

 outside. Fruit somewhat compressed from the sides, ovate- 

 oblong, crowned by the short diverging styles. Mericarps with 

 5 obtuse prominent ribs, 3 dorsal, and 2 marginating ; vittae one 

 in each furrow, which are broad, flat, and striated. Commissure 

 furrowed in the middle. Carpophore bipartite. Seed teretely 

 convex, somewhat convolute at the commissure. Puberulous or 

 hairy tufted herbs, not above 2 or 4 inches high. Leaves tri- 

 pinnately multifid ; segments lanceolate-linear, acute. Scapes 

 erect, pubescent. Umbels simple, containing about 20 flowers, 

 surrounded by involucra composed of about 20 leaves each, 

 which are oblong-lanceolate. Flowers white, some male, and 

 others female. This genus, from the seed and fruit, is allied to 

 Scdndix; but differs from ChoErophyllum in the umbels being 

 simple, in the ribs of the mericarps being distant, and in the fur- 

 rows being broad. 



1 C. ANDICOLA (Lag. in litt. D. C. coll. mem. 5. t. 2. f. j. 

 1-3.) the plant is either wholly glabrous or puberulous ; pedicels 

 smoothish, a little longer than the involucrum. %. F. Native 

 of South America, in grassy plains at Antisana, at the height of 

 6000 to 7000 feet. Myrrhis Andicola, H. B. et Kunth, nov. 

 gen. amer. 5. p. 13. t. 419. Plant dwarf, tufted, deep green, 

 but becoming blackish on drying. Umbels 10-12-flowered. 

 Scapes hardly twice the length of the leaves. Kunth's specimen 

 is less than that of Dombey's, and more glabrous ; but the hairs 

 of the scapes in both are deflexed. Pedicels glabrous. 



Andes Caldasia. PL 2 to 3 inches. 



2 C. ERIOPODA (D. C. 1. c. f. j. 4-5.) the whole plant is 

 clothed with hoary pubescence ; pedicels tomentose or hairy, 

 much longer than the involucrum. I/ . F. Native of New Hol- 

 land, where it was collected by D'Urville. Scape 4 times longer 

 than the leaves. Leaves of involucrum oval-oblong. Fruit 

 quite glabrous, seated on very hairy pedicels. 



Woolly-pedicelled Caldasia. PI. 2 to 3 inches. 



f Species not sufficiently known. 



3 C. CII^ROPHYLL^A (Lag. am. nat. 2. p. 98. and in litt. 

 ined.) stems covered with retrograde hairs; segments of invo- 



lucrum entire, or cut, about equal in length to the flowering um- 

 bel. %. . F. Native of Peru. 



Var. a, glabrmscula (D. C. prod. 4. p. 229.) leaves puberu- 

 lous, especially above, as well as the outside of the involucra ; 

 petals almost glabrous; peduncles dichotomous, twin. It. F. 

 Native of Peru, at the town of Chinchin, in the province of 

 Chancay, where it was collected by Ruiz et Pav. 



Var. ft, hirsuta (D. C. 1. c.) leaves pubescently hairy on both 

 surfaces, as well as the outside of the involucels and petals ; forks 

 of umbels 3-4-rayed. 



Charvil-hke Caldasia. PL 2 to 3 inches. 



4 C. LASIOPE'TALA (Lag. in litt. ex D. C. prod. 4. p. 229.) 

 stem and leaves rather tomentose, greyish ; segments of involu- 

 cels cut andpinnatifid, longer than the umbels ; petals pubescent 

 on the outside. I/ . F. Native on the Andes, in the tract 

 called Cordillera del Peru. 



Hairy-petalled Caldasia. r PL 2 to 3 inches. 



Cult. See Fragosa, p. 259. for culture and propagation. 



CXL. SPHALLEROCA'RPUS (^aXXw, sphallo, to deceive, 

 and Kapiros, karpos, fruit ; from the fruit being liable to be mis- 

 taken for cumin seed). Bess, in litt. 1828. D. C. coll. mem. 5. 

 p. 64. t. 2. f. N. prod. 4. p. 230. 



LIN. SYST. Pentdndria, Digynia. Teeth of calyx 5, subulate. 

 Petals obovate-cuneated, emarginate, with an inflexed point ; 

 outer ones of the umbel radiant. Styles short, at length re- 

 flexed. Stylopodiuin rather urceolate, toothed. Fruit elliptic- 

 oblono;, contracted from the sides, without a beak. Mericarps 

 with 5 subalate ribs : lateral ribs marginating. Vittae 2-3 in 

 each furrow, which are convex; and 4-6 in the commissure. 

 Carpophore bipartite. Seed having a furrow inside. Herbs. 

 Stems terete, and are as well as the petioles hairy. Leaves bi- 

 pinnate ; leaflets pinnatifid : lobes linear, acute. Involucrum 

 wanting. Umbels 6-7-rayed. Involucels of 5 lanceolate leaves. 

 Flowers white, nearly all hermaphrodite in the terminal umbels, 

 and male in the lateral ones. 



1 S. CYMI'NUM (Bess. 1. c.) $ . Native of Dahuria, about 

 Nerschinski Sawod. ex Fisch. ; and of Volhynia, ex Bess. 

 Chserophyllum Cyminum, Fisch. in litt. 1819. Cat. hort. 

 Vratisl. 1821. Chaer. gracile, Bess. hort. crem. 1822. Trev. nov. 

 act. nat. bonn. 1826. vol. 13. p. 172. Myrrhis gracilis, Spreng. 

 syst. 4. pt. 2. p. 120. Fruit thickish, elliptic-oblong, with acute 

 angles, very aromatic according to the testimony of Fisch. 

 Leaves almost like those of Cheer, aromdticum, triplicately pin- 

 natifid, with linear segments. Stem smooth. 



Cumin-like Sphallerocarpus. FI. June, July. Clt. 1822. PL 

 2 to 3 feet. 



Cult. The seeds of this plant only require to be sown in the : 

 open border. 



CXLI. MOLOPOSPE'RMUM (from pwXw^, molops, a stripe, 

 and rnrtppa, sperma, a seed ; the fruit is yellowish, and the vittae 

 chestnut coloured, giving the fruit the appearance of being 

 striped). Koch, umb. p. 108. diss. ined. in litt. 1828. D. C. 

 prod. 4. p. 230. Ligusticum species, Lin. and Spreng. 



LIN. SYST. Pentdndria, Digynia. Calyx 5-toothed, foliaceous. 

 Petals lanceolate, entire, ending in a long ascending acumen 

 each. Fruit contracted from the sides ; mericarps with 5 mem- 

 branous winged ribs, the 2 lateral ones marginating, and one- 

 half shorter than the rest, and the 3 dorsal ones are very sharp. 

 Seed bluntly tetragonal or angular ; angle of commissure oppo- 

 site, engraven by a profound furrow ; the canals empty be- 

 tween the seed and commissure of the pericarp. Vittas broad, 

 brown, solitary in the furrows ; but none in the commissure, 

 which is very narrow. Carpophore bipartite. A perennial 

 glabrous herb. Leaves ternately decompound ; leaflets lanceo- 



