220 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



small or 0. Petals 5, unequal, retruse from costa being more or less 

 intraded and margins dilated, emarginate, spuriously 2-lobed, or 

 more rarely entire ; point short or long inflexed. Stylopods high or 

 depressed conical, entire at margin, sinuate or crenate. Fruit ovoid 

 or oblong- ovoid, laterally (contrary to septum) more or less compressed 

 exalate ; primary ridges subequal hardly prominent ; carpophore 2- 

 partite or 2-fid, rarely entire, sometimes 0. Intrajugal vittae rarely 

 very thin, often 0. Face of seed flat, rather convex or slightly con- 

 cave. — Annual or perennial herbs, glabrous or in parts pilose or 

 hispid ; leaves pinnate or ternately or pinnately decompound, rarely 

 simple, entire or dentate; umbels compound; involucral bracts oo , 

 or oftener ; bracteoles of involucels oo , sometimes few or 0. {All 

 ivarm arid temp, regions of the icorld.) — See p. 117. 



41? Froriepia C. Koch.^ — Flowers ^ nearly of Canm ; '* Sepals 

 very short. Petals oblong, cordate at base, apex coarctate in inflexed 

 lacinule, medially carinate on upper face. Fruit ovoid laterally 

 compressed. Mericarps with 5 primary and 4 secondary ridges ; all 

 filiform prominent equal ; the lateral marginate. Stylopods depressed. 

 Furrows evittate. Carpophore 2-fid at apex. Albumen convex, 

 anteriorly rather flat." — Glabrous biennial herbs, ^ stem naked virgate ; 

 leaves lateral pinnatisect ; cauline reduced to sheaths ; umbels shortly 

 or very unequally 3-4-radiate ; bracts of involucres and involucels short 

 oblong-lanceolate acute membranous.* (Transcaucasia, north. Persia.^) 



42. Bulbocastanum Lagasc.^ — Flowers'' (nearly of 6^rtrw???) poly- 

 gamous, subasepalous. Petals obovate, emarginate or spuriously 

 2-fid from inflexed apex. Fruit oblong or ovate-oblong, constricted 

 at commissure, somewhat compressed laterally, shortly attenuate at 

 apex. Primary ridges subequal filiform. Vittse oo , continuous or 

 interrupted, often very thin or obscure. Carpophore '2-fid or 2- 

 partite. Face of seed concave or deeply sulcate. Other characters 



1 Liiincea, xvi. 362. — Boiss. FL Or. ii. 85-7 Schur, nor Koch). — Guss. S^n. Fl. Sic. i. 340. 

 (whence the gen. char, here given). — Conopodlum Koch, Nov. Acta Nat. Cur. xii. 



2 " Greenish white." (1824) 118 (part).-B. H. Gen. 896, n. 66.— 



3 " Face of Petroselinum segetum." Bunium DC. Frodr. iv. 116, 117 (part). — Sphalle- 

 ^ " Gen. hy the presence of secondary ridges rocarpus Bess. DC. Mem. v. 60, t. 2N ; Prodr. 



and absence of vittae distinct from Petroselinum iv. 230.— Endl. Gen. n. 4509. — Scaligeria DC. 



as Rumia from Trinia.'' (Boiss.) Mem. 70 ; Frodr. iv. 248.— Endl. Gen. n. 4544. 



* Spec. 1. F. subpinnata. — F. nuda C. KocH. — — Biitinla Boiss. Ele)tch. Fl. Hisp. Auntr. 53 ; 



Bupleurum subpiiinatum Ledeb. Eichw. Fl. Far. Voy. Fsp. 270, t. 80. — Elceosticta Fenzl, Flora 



Casp. (1831-1833) 13, t. 11.— Fetroselimim sege- (1843), 458.— Hook. Fl. Ind. ii. %n.—EeterO' 



turn Ledeb. Fl.Foss. ii. (1842) 242 (not Koch). tcenia Boiss. Tog. Esp. 267, t. 80 A. 



« ylmcen. Ac. Madr. (1811) 99 (not Adans. nor ^ White. 



