226 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



mostly radical, lanceolate from shortly sheathing petiole, 2-pinnatisect; 

 segments short ; laciniaB rigid acute ; umbels compound ; bracts of 

 involucres and involucels oo , linear or more rarely dissected, deflexed.^ 

 (0 abulia.^) 



55. Bupleurmn T.^ — Flowers^ hermaphrodite or polygamous; 

 sepals scarcely conspicuous or 0. Petals rather broad, ovate or 

 rotundate, subcucuUate from costa widely prominent, apex inflexed or 

 induplicate, oftener coarctate in lacinule. Styles- short ; stylopods 

 depressed entire. Fruit compressed contrary to septum ; mericarps 

 5-gonal. Primary ridges subequal, acute or subulate, sometimes 

 rather thick or subobsolete ; lateral marginate. Vittee in furrows 

 solitary or oo , irregular, sometimes interrupted and unequally dis- 

 persed or ; Yitise sometimes also thin intrajugal. Carpophore 2-fid 

 or 2-partite. Seed subterete, smooth or sulcate, at face rather convex, 

 flat or more or less sulcate or concave ; margins sometimes involute. 

 — Annual, perennial or shrubby herbs, often rigid glabrous ; leaves 

 entire, often linear or perfoliolate or cordate ; umbels or capitules 

 compound ; bracts of involucres and involucels oo , foliaceous or 

 narrow, sometimes few or 0. {All trop. and temp. reg. of the ivorld.^) 



56. Hohenackeria Fisch. and Mey.^ — Flowers^ nearly of Bii- 

 pleurum ; sepals unequal acute 2-5. Stylopods conical. Fruit ovoid,^ 

 commissure broad ; ^ mericarps subterete. Ridges subequal suberose- 

 incrassate, Vittse thin solitary or 0. Seed sulcate. — Low glabrous 



^ A gen. of doubtful place, a peculiar tribe of 1891. — Sibth. Fl. Grcec. t. 260-264. — Guss. PL 



Pyramidoptera (according to Boiss.) by others Ear. t. 22, 23.— Jaub. et Spach, III. PL Or. t. 



(B. H.) placed between Actinanthus {(Enanthe) 236.— Fenzl, III. PI. Syr. t. 18 ; Tchihatch. As. 



and Mayydaris, not far'from Theocarpus. Min. Pot. i. 417. — Eichw. PI. Casp.i. 10, 11. — 



2 Spec. 1. . cabulica Boiss. loc. cit. Kl. Waldem. Pets. t. 60-52. — Wight, Icon. t. 



^ Inst. 309, t. 163.— L. Gen. n. 328.— Lag. 281, 1006, 1007.— Mia. Ann. Mus. Lugd.-Bat. 



Amoen. ii. 100.— Koch, Umb. 114, fig. 51, 62.— iii. 58.— A. Gray, Man. (ed. 5) 195.— Chapm. 



Spreng. Syst. i. 880.— DC. Prodr. iv. 127.— Fl. S. Un. St. 162.— Harv. and Sond. Fl. Cap. 



Spach, Suit, a Puffon, viii. 176. — Endl. Gen. n. ii. 541 (part). — Fr. et Sav. Fnum. PI. Jap. i. 179. 



4414.— B. H. Gen. 887, n. 44.— H. Bn. Adan- —Boiss. Diayn. Or. ser. 2, ii. 81 ; v. 97 ; vi. 73 ; 



sonia, xii. 177.— Hook. Fl. Ind. ii. 674. — Ayos- Fl. Or. ii. 834.— Gren. et Godr. Fl. de Fr. i. 



tana Salisb. Gr. Pnt. PI. ii. 526.—Piaphyllum 716.— Walp. Pep. ii. 396, 937 ; v. 859 ; Ann. i. 



HoPFM. Uinb. 112. — Isophyllum 'H.offjjl. loc.cit. 347; ii. 700; iii. 897; v. 67. 



— Tenoria Spreng. Utnb. Prodr. 27. — Buprestis ^ Ind. Sem. Hort. Petrop. ii. 38 ; Bull. Sc. Kat. 



Spreng. loc. cit.— Odontites Spreng. loc. cit.— Mosc. (1838) 320.— Endl. Gen. n. 4388.— B. H. 



Piatropa Dumrt. Fl. Belg. 76. — Traehypleurum G.n. 886, n. 43. 



Reichb. Consp. 43. — ? Orimaria Rafin. Ser. '" Greenish white or yellow." 



-Be*//. Z?o^ 218 (ex Endl.). ,8 "Or heteromorphous from mutual pres- 



* Yellow or greenish. sure." 



* Spec, about 60 (enumer. to 100). Cav. Icon. ' Eeceptacle produced beyond cells in short 

 t. 106. — J ACQ. Ic. Ear. t. 56, 351. — Desf. Fl. tube and crowned with persistent subspinescent 

 Atl. t. 56, 57.— Keichb. f. Ic. Fl. Germ. 1. 1880- sepals. 



