UMBELLIFEBM 200 



19. Polemannia Eckl. and Zeyh.' — Flowers^ small; sepals 

 conspicuous dentiform. Petals oblong ; point inflexed entire. Stylo - 

 pods conical. Fruit subovoid glabrous, slightly compressed at back; 

 margin rather thick 1 -toothed at apex.^ Mericarps dorsally com- 

 pressed, at base decurrent to pedicel ; primary dorsal and intermediate 

 ridges Httle prominent. Vittae in furrows solitary. Face of seed nearly 

 flat. — Glabrous shrubs ; ^ leaves 3 -fid or 3-nato -pinnate dissected ; 

 segments cuneate, 3-fid ; umbels in more or less branched and leafless 

 raceme ; • the lateral simple ; the terminal compound ; bracts and 

 bracteoles subulate few or 0.* {South Africa.^) 



20. Aciphylla Forst.^ — Flowers^ hermaphrodite, oftener poly- 

 gamo- dioecious or monoecious; sepals conspicuous or 0. Petals entire, 

 retuse or variously emarginate. Stylopods conical or depressed. 

 Fruit oblong (Anesorhiza,^ Euaciphylla) , oval (Gymopterus^°), or oval- 

 oblong (Thaspium ^^) ; rarely obtuse or retuse {Cymop tents), Kidges 

 rather prominent, or (all or part) more or less widely alate (Thaspium, 

 Cymoptcrus) ; the sutural alate or oxalate. Yittse in furrows solitary 

 (Anesorhiza, Thaqnum) or oo {Aciphylla (part), Cymopterus). Seed 

 at face concave {Cymopterus) or nearly flat {Thaspiuni, Anesorhiza), 

 often sulcate at vittse. — Perennial herbs, sometimes subcsespitose 

 {Cymopterus) ; leaves ternately dissected {Thaspium) , pinnate or pin- 

 nately decompound, sometimes reduced to simple petioles or to a foAV 

 linear folioles ; umbels compound often few-rayed ; bracts of involucre 

 and involucels oo , or more rarely 0, entire or more rarely dissected. ^^ 

 {South Africa, Australia, N. Zealand, N, America}^) 



L. F. SuppL 180. — Laserp'itium crHhmifolium sotome Hook. f. FL Antarct i. 16, t. 8-10 (not 



XiiNK. — Tenoriacanariensis^v-KE^G. — Heracleiiin Fenzl). — Gingidium F. Muell. Trans. Fhil, 



canariense Chois. Inst. Vict. i. 103 (not FoRST.). 



^ Enum. PI. Afr. Austr. 347. — Endl. Gen. n. 8 White, yellow or purplish. 



4431.— B. H. Gen. 909, n. 104. 9 Cham, et Schlchtl, Linncea, i. 398 [Aneso- 



=^ Said to be white. rhiza). — B. H. Gen. 913, n. 115. — Glia Sond. 



^ Hence resembling that of Todaroa ; but the FL. Cap. ii. 547. — Stenosemis E. Mey. ex Sond. 



primary ridges are conspicuous, not the secon- loc. cit. 551. 

 dary. lo Kafin. Journ. Phys. Ixxxix. 100. — DC. 



* Habit oftener peculiar, e. g. in P. grossula- Prodr. iv. 203. — Endl. Gen. n. 4491. — B. H. 



rucfulia {Lepisma verticillatum E. Mey.). Gen. 911, n. 111. 



^ Gen. scarcely autonomous, on the one hand, ^i Nxjtt. Gen. PL Amer. i. 196 (part). — DC. 



as to its fruit, compared with. Astijdamia, on the Prodr. iv. 153. — B. H. Gen. 913, n. 116. 

 other hand hardly separable from j4ci>%//« and '^ A genus closely allied io Ligusticum (i. e. 



Anesorhiza. Meum). 



« Spec. 2. Hakv. and Sond. Fl. Cap, ii, 550. ^^ gpec. about 30. Forst. Fl. Austr. 140 {Li- 



— Walp. i?e;?. ii. 403. gustkum). — L. f. Suppl. 181 {Laseriitiuin), — 



' Char. Gen. 135, t. 68.— B. H. Gen. 912, n. DC. Prodr. iv. 159, n. 18 {Ligusticu'h).—B.ooY!i. 



114. — H.'Q's. Adanso)iia,yiii.\Q^. — Cahsciadium Fl. Bar.- Amer. i. 95 {Seiinum) ; Icon. t. 607. — 



Endl. Gen. n. 4442 ^ (Suppl. iv. p. iii. 1).—Ani- Tour, et Gk. Fl. N.-Amer. i. 623 {Cymopterus) 



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