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latter are terminal relatively to the males which surround them. 

 The sepals are valvate 



and inflexed, and the Sanimia europaa. 



fruit is quite covered 

 with prickles hooked 

 at the point. Sanicula 

 comprises herbs from 

 all parts of the world, 

 with palmati- 3-5 -sect 

 leaves and inflo- 

 rescences on an erect 

 bare or more rarely 

 leaved axis. 



ArctopuSf perennial 

 herbs of the Cape, are 

 analogous both to As- 

 trantia and Eryngium, 

 and especially resemble 

 certain of the latter in their rosetted leaves with dilated petiole, 



Petagnia saniculoefoUa. 



Fig. 177. Facial view 

 ofmericarp (f). 



Fig. 178. Long. sect, 

 ofmericarp. 



Fig. 179. Portion of inflorescence. Fig. 180. Long. sect, of fertile flower {\). 



dentate or incised, ciliate or spinous limb. The flowers are dioecious 



