UMBELLIFER^. ^17 



34. Foeniculum Adans.' — Flowers^ hermaphrodite or poly- 

 gamous, asepalous. Petals entire, involute at apex. Stylopods 

 thickly conical entire. Fruit oblong ; commissure broad. Mericarps 

 semiterete ; ridges thick rather prominent equal or unequal. Vittae 

 solitary, sometimes the intrajugal very thin. Carpophore 2-partite. 

 Face of seed flat or slightly concave.^ — Glabrous perennial or biennial 

 herbs ; leaves decompound ; laciniaB linear or filiform ; umbels com- 

 pound, ebracteate and ebracteolate.* (Temp, regions of Old Worlcl.^) 



35. Physostrichia Hiern.^ — " Teeth of calyx acute subelongate- 

 subulate, somewhat unequal, rather erect, in fruit little if at all en- 

 larged, persistent. Petals obcordate, spuriously 2-lobed, on account 

 of inflexed lacinule 1-nerved, not ray^d (white glabrous). Stylopods 

 thick sublobulate ; stigmas large dark purple. Fruit ellipsoid-oblong 

 subterete, commissure wide ; carpels subplane at face ; primary 

 ridges prominent obtuse subequal, covered with dense cylindrical 

 vesiculately inflated papillae ; secondary ridges ; vittse in furrows 

 solitary (or in lateral furrows 2-nate ?). Carpophore 2-partite. Seed 

 concave at face. — A subglabrous erect rigid perennial herb ; leaves 

 radical rather hard, 3-nately or pinnately compound ; folioles oval or 

 ovate ; simple or sublobate, or 3-foliolate ; umbels compound many- 

 rayed ; bracts of involucre and involucels oo , submembranous." ^ 



36. Seseli L.^ — Flowers ^ generally hermaphrodite ; sepals often 

 acute small or 0. Petals equal or slightly unequal, entire (WaU- 

 rothia ^°), subentire, retuse, emarginate or spuriously 2-lobed. Stylo- 

 pods high or depressed conical, entire or undulate at margin. Fruit 

 ovoid-oblong, erostrate or shortly rostrate, glabrous, tomentose or 

 hirsute, transversely subterete or slightly compressed at back. 

 Primary ridges short exalate subequal, sometimes raised ; lateral 



1 Fam. des PI. ii. 101.— G^rtx. Fruct. i. 105, dc Fl. i. 712.— Walp. Eep. ii. 401, 938 : v. 864. 

 t. 23.— HoFFM. Umb. 120, t. \.— liXG.Amoen. ii. « Journ. Bot. (1873) 161, t. 132. 



99.— Koch, Umb. 112.— DC. Prodr. iv. 142.— 1 1 Angola spec. F. Welwitschii Oi.ix. sXlie^ 



Spach, Suit, d Baffon, viii. 203.— ExNDL. Gen. n. apparently to Scseli and to IHplolophinm, not 



4425.— B. H. Gen. 902, n. 81.— Hook. FL Ind. enumerated among the Umbellifcrgo in the 



ii. 695. —Gasparinia Bertol. Fl. Hal. iii. 614. — Flora of Trap. Africa. 



Ozodia Wight and Arn. Frodr. 375. ® Gen- n. 360.— DC. Mem. 46 ; Frodr. iv. 144. 



2 Yellow or greenish. — Endl. Gen. n. 4430. — B. H. Gen. 901, n. 80. — 

 ^ Longitudinally sulcate. 11. Bn. Jdansonia, xii. 176. — Hook. Fl. Ind. ii. 

 ■* Flowers subarticulate under germen. 693. 



5 Spec. 2, 3 (?). Reichb. f. Ic. Fl. Germ. t. * Generally white. 



1930, 1931.— Wight, Icon. t. 570.— C. Gay, Fl. i" Spreng. Eoem. et Sch. Syst. vi. g. 45 (not 



Chil. iii. 127.— MiQ. Afin. Mm. Lucjd.-Bat. iii. Roth).— DC. Prodr. iv. 162.— Dethaicia Endl. 



59.— J3ois6. Fl. Or. ii. 975.— Gken. et Godk. Fl. Qen. n. 4435. 



