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or ovately pear-shaped, compressed contrary to septum, emarginate 

 at base from decurrent mericarps ; commissure rather broad ; primary 

 ridges subequally prominent obtuse, often rugulose ; vittse in furrows 

 soHtary broad not prominent ; carpophore 2-pal'tible. Seed subterete, 

 flat or rather concave at face. — Perennial herbaceous or subshrubby, 

 rarely shrubby plants, rigid glabrous ; leaves 3-sect ; segments or 

 foholes pinnately dentate, sometimes reduced to terete petiole ; 

 umbels compound ; bracts of involucres and involucels small few or 

 0.^ (South Africa, Madagascar?) 



53. Heteromorpha Cham, and Schlchtl.^ — Flowers * nearly of 

 Rhyticarpus ; sepals acute. Petals entire or subentire ; point long 

 involute. Stylopods conical ; dilated at base to undulate margin. 

 Fruit subovate, compressed contrary to septum ; mericarps unequally 

 3-5-gonal. Primary ridges dilated to prominent, 3-angular unequal 

 wings ; ^ vittae in furrows conspicuous, oftener solitary ; carpophore 

 2 -partite. Seed transversely subterete. — A glabrous shrub ; ^ leaves 

 2-3-lobed or 1-3-foliolate ; umbels compound; bracts of involucres 

 and involucels oo , small.^ (Trop.and south. Africa?) 



54. Pyramidoptera Boiss.® — Flowers^" polygamous; sepals 

 dentiform. Petals obovate-cuneate emarginate; point inflexed. 

 Stylopods conical. Fruit obpyramidal, indehiscent, equally 5-alate ; 

 mugs 3-angular rather thick, long attenuate below, above confluent 

 with base of sepals. Mericarps unequal; one 3-alate; the other 

 2-alate oftener sterile ; carpophore scarcely conspicuous or ; vittse 

 00 , very thin irregular. Seed compressed at back, at face flat or 

 rather concave. — A glabrous perennial herb; " caudex thick; leaves 



* A gen. very near to Lichtensteinia dififering ^ With hatit of some Bupleura, sometimes in 

 only in the nature of the vittae ; " from Httero- its leaves resemhling some cultivated Araliece. 

 morpha it differs only in its exalate ridges, from 7 A gen. in some respects apparently very 

 Bupkttrum it is more distinct as well from its near to Bupleurum, in others to Rhy'iearpum. 

 calycinal teeth and disk as that all its leaves, at ^ Spec. 1, polymorpha, scil. H. arboresoens 

 least of a young plant, are compound." (B. H.) Cham, et Schlchtl. — Harv. and Sond. FL Cop. 



2 Spec, about 4. Thunb. FL Cap. 254 {CEnan- ii. 542.— Hiern, Oliv. FL Trop. Afr. iii. 10.— 



the). — Harv. and Sond. FL Cap. ii. 541, n. 2 //. ahysshiica Hochst. — H. collina Eckl. et 



{Bupleurum). Zeyh. — Bupleurum arborescens L. — Thunb. Fl. 



^ Liimcea, i. 385, t. 5.— DC. 3Um. 43; Frodr. Cap. 247. — B. trifuliaium Wendl. et Bartl. 



iv. 134.— Endl. Gen. n. 4415. — B. H. Gen. 887, Beitr.ii. 13. — Tetiona arborcsce>i.<} SFUBiiG. Prodr. 



n. 45. Umb. (ex DC). 



■* "Yellowish." ' Ui'iffn. Or. ser. 2, ii. 106 ; FL Or. ii. 1089. 



* "Wings in one carpel oftener 3, in the other — B. H. Geir. 903, n. 86. 

 2; sometimes 1, 2 narrower interposed. The '" *• WTiite." 



larger often continuoiis with base of sepals. '^ " Face oi Laserpitium." 



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