CBUCIFEBJS. 



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wings 2 ; septum very narrow. Seeds solitary in each cell, immar- 

 ginate ; cotyledons flat. — Underslirubs or herbs, simple or ca?spitose, 

 pubescent ; leaves radical and cauline, entire or pinnatifid spathu- 

 late; flowers 1 racemose, ebracteate {Chill 2 ). 



162 (?) Decaptera Turcz. 3 — " Sepals equal at base. Stamens free. 

 Siliqua (compressed dorsally ?) 2-celled ; cells 1 -seeded, indehiscent, 

 pendulous from apex of style, flat along commissure, 5-winged 

 behind ; 4 style short ; stigma globose. 5 Seeds pendulous ; cotyle- 

 dons flat. — A low perennial many-stemmed villous herb ; leaves 

 distantly scattered, petiolate cuneate, 3-fid ; racemes terminal many- 

 flowered " {Chili"). 



VII. SUBULARIE.E. 



103. Subularia L. — Receptacle cupuliform ; lobes of disk 4, 

 truncate at apex, superposed to petals. Sepals patulous perigynous. 

 Petals sessile, afterwards elongated. Stamens 0, perigynous free 

 toothless, slightly 4-dynamous. Siliqua inserted in bottom of 

 receptacle, subsessile, elliptical or subglobose, sometimes oblong, 

 rather turgid ; style nearly absent ; stigma very short simple ; valves 

 convex ribbed ; septum membranous. Seeds few, 2-seriate, descend- 

 ing, immarginate ; embryo incurved ; cotyledons narrow incumbent, 

 continuous with radicle. — Annual rather small herbs, aquatic or, 

 submerged, glabrous ; leaves subradical elongated-subulate ; flowers 

 small laxly racemose (?) at top of scape, ebracteate {Europe, Asia, and 

 North America, Mountainous Abyssinia). See p. 208. 



1 White. 



2 Spec, about 6. Barn., in C. Gay Fl. Chil., 

 i. 175. — Wedd., CM. Andina, t. 86 f. — Walp., 

 Rep., i. ISO ; Ann., i. 45 ; vii. 162. 



3 Iii Bull. Mosc. xix. 497 (whence our descrip- 

 tion).— B. H., Gen., 90, n. 109. 



4 " Valves recalling in form the mericarps of 

 many Umbettiferce." (Turcz., loc. cit.) 



5 " Fruit-cells affixed to persistent axis formed 

 from style by thin threads, soon caducous." 



6 Spec. 1. D. trifida Turcz., loc. tit. — ■ 

 Walp., Ann., i. 45. 



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