UMBELLIFER^. 203 



8 ? Polylophium Boiss.^ — Flowers^ of Laserpitium. Fruit ovoid 

 subterete ; carpels dorsally compressed ; commissure broad. Primary 

 and secondary ridges subequal dilated to undulately crisped fimbriate 

 wings. Vittse under secondary ridges solitary. Carpophore 2-partite. 

 Seed nearly flat at back. — Glabrous perennial herbs ; leaves pinnately 

 decompound; segments dissected; bracts of involucres and involucels 

 00 , entire or incised.^ (The East.*) 



9. Melanoselinum Hoffm.* — Flowem^ of Thapsia ; sepals minute 

 or 0. Stylopods depressed conical. Fruit oval or oblong oval, dor- 

 sally compressed ; commissure broad. Primary and secondary ridges 

 conspicuous ; the latter more prominent, the former depressed, some- 

 times fihform ; primary lateral hidden in commissure, entire or sul- 

 cate ; secondary 4, subequally raised in each carpel, obtuse not 

 produced to wing ; marginal thick unequally- dentate ; teeth conspi- 

 cuous from base to apex (Eumelanoselinum), or the apical rather larger 

 [Monizia ''), sometimes obscure (Tornabenia ^). Vittse under secondary 

 ridges solitary broad. Carpophore 2-partite. Face of seed flat. — 

 Perennial plants herbaceous {Tornabenia) or with very long caudex 

 frutescent or arborescent (Eumelanoselimimy Monizia) ; leaves pinnately 

 decompound, often large ; umbels compound, oo -radiate ; bracts of 

 involucres and involucels oo , sometimes small. {Madeira, G. Verde 

 Is.9) 



11. ECHINOPHOEE^. 



10. Echinophora L.— Flowers polygamous; receptacle of the 

 fertile ovoid saclike. Sepals 5, superior, inserted in mouth of recep- 

 tacle, small, acute, oftener unequal. Petals 5, alternate, unequal, 



» Ann, Se. Xat. ser. 3, ii. 47.— B. H. Gen. 929, « Whitish (?), 



n. 148. — Acanthoplcura C. Koch, Bot. Zeit. ^ Lown, Hook. Keio Jo urn. yiii. 295; Man. FL 



(1849) 408.— ScHLCHTL, Zinnma, xxvi. 485. Mader. 365.— Hook. f. Bot. Mag. t. 5724. 



' Greenish-yellow. * Parlat. Hook. Kew Journ. ii. 370. — J. A. 



' Rather a sect, of Laserpitium. Schm, Beitr. zur Fl. Cap.- Verd. Ins. 253.— B. 



* Spec. 2. Pall. Roem. et Sch. Si/st. vi. 447 H. Gen. 930, n. 150. — Tetrapleura Parlat. 

 {Cachrys^. — Boiss. et Heldr. Diagn. Or. ser. 1, Hook. Niger. 131 (not Benth.). 



X. 46 {Laserpitium). — Fenzl. Tchihatch. As. ' Spec. 4, 5. Schrad. et Wendl. Sert. Hannov. 



Min. Bot. i. 443. — Boiss. Fl. Or. ii, 1066. iii. 23, t. 43 {Selinum). — Hook. f. Bot. Misc. t. 



• Umb. (ed. 2) 156 (1814).— Koch, Umb.75.— 5670 {Thapsia).—^WxhP. Ann. iL 714 {Tetra^ 

 DC. Prodr. iv. 208.— Endl. Gen. n. 4494.— H. pleura). 



Bn. Adansonia, xii. 167. 



