224 



few or ; bracteoles of involucels oo , or 0. {Temp. Asiay Medit. 

 reg}) 



50. Szovitzia Fisch. and Mey.* — Flowers ^ nearly of Triania ; 

 calyx minute or 0. Petals obovate, at apex produced to an inflexed 

 lacinule. Fruit obovate-oblong, somewhat compressed contrary to 

 septum ; primary ridges scarcely conspicuous filiform ; secondary 

 thicker suberose, transversely 1-seriately plicate-lobed ; vittse in 

 furrows solitary thin ; carpophore entire or 2-fid above. Face of seed 

 concave. — Glabrous annuals ; ^ leaves alternate, 3-nately dissected; 

 umbels compound ; involucre ; bracteoles of involucels do , small.^ 

 {Caucasian reg.^) 



51. Lichtensteinia Cham., and Schlchtl."^ — Flowers^ herma- 

 phrodite or polygamous ; sepals rather large acute. Petals entire ; 

 point long inflexed. Styles short; stylopods conical, long adnate. 

 Fruit oblong or ovoid, compressed contrary to septum, sometimes 

 shghtly constricted at commissure ; mericarps subterete or 5-gonal. 

 Primary ridges subequal thick obtuse, traversed by vittse ^ within ; 

 vittae in furrows little conspicuous or ; carpophore 2-partite. Seed 

 subterete, nearly flat at face, often longitudinally sulcate at vittre. — 

 Perennial herbs ; '° stem erect naked or few-leaved ; radical leaves 

 simple, acutely dentate, 3-sect, pinnatifid or pinnately dissected; 

 umbels compound ; involucres and involucels oo -bracteate.^' {South 

 Africa, St. Helena.^^) 



52. Rhyticarpus Sond.^^ — Flowers nearly of Lichtensteinia ; sepals 

 acute. Petals entire ; costa not impressed, point long involved. 

 Styles short, dilated at base to broadly conical stylopods. Fruit ovoid 



J Spec. 8, 9. Walbst. et Kit. PL Rar. Hung. Boiss. Fl. Or. ii. 855.— Walp. :Re'p. v. 901. 



t. 72 iFimpinella).- J ACQ.. Fl.Austr.t. 28 {Pwi- 7 Linnaa i. 394, t. 5, fig. 3.— Endl. Gen. n. 



pmella).—h^i>E.Ji. Ic. Fl. Ross. t. 8 {Trinia).— 4416.— B. H. Gen. 887, n. 47. 



Reichb. f. Ic. Fl. Germ. t. 1870-1872 {Trinia). « "Yellow." 



Boiss. Fl. Or. ii. 852, 853 {Rumia). — Gren. et ^ Thick cylindrical and filled with a dense 



GoBu. Fl. de Fr. i. 737 {Trinia). — Walp. Rep. oleo-resinous substance. 



ii. 391 (Rumia), 392 {Trinia); v. 848; Ann. i. i<> '* With aromatic odour." 



344 {Rumia). ii " A genus approaching the Sanicidece in 



2 Ind. Sem. Hort. Petrop. i. 39. — Exdl. Gen. vittae. Fruit in form sometimes of the Awmi- 



n. 4500. — B, H. Gen.Q2b,n.lZT. nece, ^omeiimQ& neoxiy oi the Seselinea. Flowers 



' White. nearly of Heieromorpha.'' (B. H.) The same 



^ Habit somewhat of (7?^mi»wm or i^Mwia. authors {Gen. 1008) doubtfully refer to this 



' Qy. if to &oyiizi« should be referred ^j^/m- genus Riithea Herhanica Bolle {Verh. d. Bot. 



nopleura trachysperma Boiss. {Fl. Or. ii. 855), Yer. Prov. Brandeb. [1862] 1. 1, 2) whose furrows 



an Armenian herb whose secondary ridges are however appear widely vittate. 



said to be narrower and scarcely prominent, its 12 gpec. 7, 8. Harv. and Sond. Fl. Cap. ii. 



other characters being apparently sufficiently 542. — Hook. r. Icon. PL t. 1033. — Walp. Rep. 



congruous ? ii. 399. 



« Spec. 1. S. callicarfa Fisch. et Mey.— ^^ ^i^. Cap. ii.'540.— B. H. Gen. 887, n. 46. 



