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internally prominent, are moulded on the furrows and have a face 

 sometimes fiat and sometimes concave. They are glabrous perennial 



Szovitzia callicarpa. 



Fig. 126. Fruit (f). 



Fig. 127. Trans, sect, of mericarp. 



Zichtensteinia JBeiliana. 



herbs of temperate Asia and the Mediterranean region. Close beside 

 them are ranged Szovitzia (fig. 126, 127), often referred to the 

 Carrot group, having oblong obovoid 

 fruit with prominent ridges, divided into 

 rounded, superposed, suberose lobes. 

 But these are the secondary ridges cor- 

 responding to as many vittse, whilst 

 the primary ridges are indistinct. The 

 only species known is an annual of the 

 Caucasian region, with compound um- 

 bels, without involucre. 



Lichtensteinia is also allied to Trinia, 

 but by another character : the thick 

 and cylindrical vittse filled with resinous 

 matter occupying the thickness even of 

 the primary ridges. The latter are 

 nearly all equal, obtuse, and but little 



prominent. The two reflexed branches of the style are supported by 

 a long cone representing the stylopods and surrounded at the base 

 by five well developed, triangular, persistent sepals. They are 

 perennial plants of South Africa and St. Helena, with radical leaves. 



Fig. 128. Trans, sect, of fruit (f). 



