UMBELLIFER^. 



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annuals ; leaves opposite (or lowest alternate) linear entire ; flowers 

 sessile capitate ebracteate.' (Meclit, and Cauc. reg,^) 



57. Coriandrum T.^ — Flowers* hermaphrodite or polygamous; 

 sepals minute or conspicuous, very unequal, the larger the more 

 anterior. Petals unequal (anterior larger) obovate, emarginately 

 2-lobed from impressed cost a and dilated margins.^ Stylopods more 

 or less highly conical, sometimes depressed (Astomcea ^). Fruit either 

 subovoid or subglobose (Eucoriandrum, Keraiiiocarpiis ^), or broader 

 than long, 2-dymous or 2-globose (Bifora,^ Atrema,^ Sclirenckia,^'^ 

 ? Cryptodiscus^^) ; mericarps transversely terete or semiterete.^- 

 Primary and secondary ridges slightly prominent, the latter stronger 

 {Eucoriandnun) ; the former sometimes flexuose ; or both scarcely 

 conspicuous (Bifora) ; or primary ridges more prominent than 

 secondary (SchrencJda). Carpels within more or less, sometimes very 

 (Bifora) concave. Vittse 0, very thin, irregular or oo (Astomcea) ; the 

 commissural oftener more distinct. Carpophore 2-partite, simple or 

 0. Seed conformed to mericarp, at face more or less concave orbicular. 

 — Glabrous herbs, perennial or oftener slender annual ; leaves pin- 

 nately dissected ; segments 1, 2-morphous, ovate rather broad or 

 linear pinnatifid dissected ; umbels compound ; bracts of involucres 

 and involucels various, linear, short, few or 0.^^ (Medit. reg., Levant, 

 N. America?^) 



1 A genus now referred to the SanicuUce. 



2 Spec. 1, 2, Cesati, Li)in<xa, xi. 323, t. 7. — 

 FiscH. Sert. Fetrop. tab. — Coss. Ann. Sc. Xat. 

 ser. 4, V. 137, t. 9, 10.— Boiss. FL Or. ii. 833.— 

 Walp. Rep. ii. 391. 



^ Inst. 316, t. 168.— J. Gen. 220.— Hoffm. 

 186.— Koch, TJmb. 82.— DC. Prodr. iv. 250.— 

 Spach, S. a Buff. viii. 141.— Exdl. Ge.i. n. 4549. 

 — B.II. Gen. 925, n. 138.— Hook. Fl. Ltd. ii. 717. 



* White. 



^ Lobes in anterior petals larger, in lateral 

 unequal ; anterior lobe larger ; posterior petal 

 Bometiraes simple. 



6 Reichb. Fjl. Syst. 2\9>.—Astoma DC. Mem. 

 71, t. 17; Prodr. iv. 249.— Endl. Gen. n. 4547. 

 — B.H. Gtn. 885, n. 41. 



7 Fenzl, III. PI. Nov. Syr. et Taur. 80, t. 20. 

 sHoFFM. Umb. 191.— Koch, Umb. 83.- DO. 



Prodr. iv. 249.— Endl. Gen. n. 4546.— B. H. 

 Gen. 926, n. 139. — ^//(/ris Sprexg. Roem. et Sch. 

 Syst. vi. Z^.—Corion Link et Hffaisg. Fl.Port. 

 ii. 457.— Ltnk, Emim. Bort.Ber. 2oO.—A).idriivi 

 Neck. Ekm. n. 319. 



9 DC. Mem. 71, t. IS ; Prodr. iv. 250.— Exdl. 

 Gen. n. 4548. 



10 FiscH. et Mey. Schrcnch Euum. 63. 



i» ScHRENCK, Eniim. 64.— Kau. et Kir. Bull. 

 Mosc. (1842) 369. 



12 Exocarp in Adomcea rather fleshy. 



i-* Fiiernrohria (C. Koch, Linncea, xvi. 356) 

 recently placed near Coriandrum (Boi^s. FL Or. 

 ii. 919), a genus Avhose mature fruit is imper- 

 fectly known, but " from its habit, odour and 

 nature of pericarp apparently to be located near 

 Coriandrum." Vittse in furrows are said to bo 

 2-nate ; in the immature fruit they are not dis- 

 tinctly seen. Primary marginal ridges of the 

 mericarps are rather prominent, "the rest 

 obsolete." 



14 Spec! about 10. Sihth. Fl. Greco, t. 283.— 

 WEIGHT, Icon. t. 516. — MiQ. Ann. Miis. Lnyd.- 

 Bat. iii. 65.— C. Gay, Fl. Chil. iii. 144.— Boiss. 

 Ft. Or. ii. 919 {J stoma), 920, 921 {Bifra), 934 

 {Cryptodiicus). — Walp. Rep. ii. 427 {SchreuckiOf 

 Cryptoduc:(s)t 428. 



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