SECT. II 



PHANEROGAMIA 



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wanting. Flowers white, greenish, or yellow ; other colours are 

 rare. K 5, C 5, A 5, Gr (2). The sepals are usually represented by 

 short teeth. The flowers at the circumference of the compound 

 umbel sometimes become zygomorphic by the enlargement of the 





Kir.. G62. — Carum mrvi (j nat. size). In- 

 florescence bearing fruits. Single flower, 

 and carpophore bearing tlie niericarps 

 ((Ml larged). Officia l. 



Fin. 663. — 1, Ocnantlie fistulosa (I nat. size). 2, Group 

 of fruits. 3, Single fruit (enlarged). I'oisoxors. 



outwardly directed petals. Ovary always bi-carpellary and bilocular; 

 in each loculus a single ovule which hangs from the median septum 

 with its micropyle directed upwards and outwards. The upper surface 

 of the carpels is occupied by a swollen, nectar-secreting disc continu- 

 ing into the longer or shorter styles, which terminate in spherical 

 stigmas. Fruit a schizocarp, splitting in the plane of the septum into 

 two partial fruits or mericarps. In many cases the latter remain for a 



