UMBELLIFEBJE. 219 



38 ? Haussknechtia BoissJ — Flowers subasepalous ; calyx com- 

 posed of 5 small teeth. Petals ^ obovate concave ; with long inflexed 

 point. Styles curved, at base dilated to a single conical stylopod. 

 Young ^ fruit subterete, somewhat compressed contrary to septum ; 

 septum thick lacunose ; mericarps 5-angular ; carpophore . . . ? — A 

 perennial herb ; leaves dissected ; * scape high leafless much-branched, 

 floriferous at apex ; umbels compound subcapitate ^ globular, subsessile 

 along branches of inflorescence ; involucre small or ; bracteoles 

 of involucels few obtuse, equalling flowers, more or less connate, 

 white-membranous.® (West, Persia J) 



39. Athamantha L.^ — Flowers ^ hermaphrodite or polygamous ; 

 sepals small, acute or subulate, sometimes {Kundmannia '°) obtuse. 

 Petals oftener narrowed to long inflexed or involute point, entire, 

 emarginate or spuriously 2-lobed. Stylopods conical or thick, 

 undulate or rugose at margin. Fruit oblong, transversely subterete, 

 rather obtuse at apex {Kundmannia) or oftener subrostrate {Euatlia- 

 mantha, Tinguarra^^), Primary ridges subequal, very slightly pro- 

 minent, sometimes rather thick hard {Kundmannia), Vittse in 

 furrows solitary or 2-3-nate ; the intrajugal sometimes thin. Carpo- 

 phore 2-partite. Face of seed flat or rather concave, sometimes 

 (Tinguarra) deeply sulcate. — Glabrous or canescent herbs; stock 

 perennial ; leaves pinnate, 2-pinnate or 3-nato-pinnately decompound ; 

 umbels compound, go -rayed ; involucral bracts oo , few or ; bracteoles 

 of involucels oo . (Levant, south. Europe, Meditter. region. Canaries,^-) 



IV. CARE^. 

 40. Carum L. — Flowers hermaphrodite or polygamous. Sepals 



' Fl. Or. ii. 960. Endl. Gen. n. 4531. 



3 "White." 9 White; petals often hirsute. 



3 Mature unknown. " Scop. Introd. (1777) 116.— DC. Prodr, iv. 



* Nearly of Smyrnum or Pastinaca. 143.— Endl. Gen. n. 4426.— B. H. Gen. 903, n. 

 ** From pedicels and peduncle being very 83. — Brignolia Bertol. Besvx. Journ. Bot. iv. 76 



contracted but not quite absent. (1814) ; Am. It. 97. — Mauki, PL Rom. ii. t. 2. 



* Gen. apparently very near to -(E^Awsfl!, allied — Koch, Umh. 107. — Campdtria Lag. Jmoen. 

 to some species of iSeseli, especially not Cyatho- Nat. ii. 99. 



selium. '^ Parlat. Webb Phyt. Canar. ii. 156, t. 71.— 



' Spec. 1. H. elymaitica Boiss. loc. cit. B. H. Gen. 896, n. 67. We have sometimes 



* Gen. n. 338 (part). — Koch, Umb. 106, t. 49, seen solitary vittae in T. cervaricefolia. 



50 (not Scop.). — DG. Prodr. iv. 154 (part). — >3 gpec. about 6. Jacq. /c. ^ar.t.57; jP/.-^4tw^r. 



Endl. Gen. n. 4440.— B. H. Gen. 900, n. 77 t. 62.— Reichb. f. Ic. Fl. Germ. t. 1889 {Kund- 



{Athzmaniha) . — H. Bn. Adansonia, xii. 177. — mannia), 1934, 1935. — Boiss. Fl. Or. ii. 969, 976 



Turbith Tausch. Flora (1834), 343.— Endl. Gen. (Kundmannia).— Walv. Pep.x. 867 {Tinguan'o) ; 



n. 4441. — Petrocarvi Tausch. loc. cit. 35. — Ann,n.1Q\i^Ktmdmannia). 



