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which project internally and deeply penetrate the alhumen of the seed. 

 At the summit of the latter is found a small emhryo. Myodocarpus 

 consists of trees or bushes, with alternate, simple or compound- 

 pinnate leaves, accompanied by stipules but little prominent, adnate 



Myodocarpus simplicifolius. 



Fig. 192. Fruit (f). 



Fig. 191. Flower (f). 



Fig. 193. Long. sect, of fruit. 



to the base of the petiole, and the flowers are in a ramified cluster 

 bearing numerous umbellules. With the habit, imparipinnate leaves 

 and inflorescence of Myodocarpus, Delarhrea (^g. 194, 195) has the 

 same flower except that 



the petals are more or Deiarh-ea coiuna. 



less constricted at the 

 base, the styles en- 

 larged to a mass ; in 

 the fruit, ovoid or 

 spherical and without 

 wings, the vesicular 

 oleoresinous reservoirs 

 are less developed, and 

 the seeds, very con- 

 cave within, have mar- 

 gins more or less in- 

 volute and regularly 



disposed longitudinal channels like those observed in so large a 

 number of the true Umbelliferce, 



Fseiidosciadiiim Balansce, a New Caledonian shrub, with stem simple 

 or nearly so, is intermediate between the two preceding genera and 

 the Umhelliferce proper, of which it has quite the flowers, but disposed 



Fig. 194 Fruit (f). 



Fig. 195. Trans, sect, of fruit. 



