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subentire or 2-lobed ; lobes alternating with placentas ; placentas 2, 

 nerviforra ; one sterile or with few ovules on either side, the other 

 eventually bearing 1 fertile ovule above the base. Fruit small, drupa- 

 ceous ; mesocarp at length thin ; putamen indehiscent, one-seeded. — 

 Herbs, usually annuals, glaucous, erect branched or diffuse, or more 

 rarely climbing subcirrhous ; leaves much divided ; segments usually 

 narrow-linear ; flowers in terminal or leaf-opposed spikes or racemes 

 {Mediterranean region, Temperate Europe and Asia, Temperate America 

 and Australia, South Africa). See p. 125. 



