UMBELLIFERJE. 



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fruit is a nearly cylindrical drupe, with hard narrow 1-2-celled 

 putamen. The seed is elongate and has not yet been examined at 

 maturity. 



Astrotricha and Horsfieldia are also two genera which have been 



Fig. 199. Fruit (f). 



Apiopetaluin velutinnm. 



Fig. 197. Floriferous branch. 



referred by some to the UmheUiferce and by others to the Araliaccce. 

 In the former, which are Australian shrubs covered with stellate 

 hairs, the leaves are also simple, entire and petiolate, and the inflo- 



