constricted at commissure, 2-scutate {Spananthe^) ; carpophore simple. 

 Exocarp sometimes fleshy; endocarp harder (Apleura^). Primary 

 ridges subequally prominent or obscure ; lateral sometimes at face 

 (^Spananthe), oftener apart at commissure ; jugal vittse more or less 

 conspicuous. Seed subterete, obtusely angular or nearly flat at face. 

 Perennial or rarely annual herbs; stem csespitose (Apleura, Micro- 

 sciadium,^ Pozoa ^), pulvinate (Fragosa ^) or 2-chotomous ramose 

 (Spananthe) ; leaves (partly) opposite (Spananthe), or imbricate or 

 reduced to sheaths, at base naked or scariously ciliate (Fragosa) ; or 

 subradical ; petiole elongate (Microsciadium, Pozoa) ; stipules (?) 

 scarious entire or lacerate, often ; flowers solitary terminal (Apleura) 

 or in simple or irregularly compound umbels ; peduncles subequal to 

 leaves or shorter (Fragosa) ; bracts of involucres free or connate at 

 base (Fragosa, Microsciadium), sometimes rayed, connate to middle 

 or much higher (Pozoa). (Arctic and temp. Andean Americas, Australia, 

 N, Zealand.') 



18. Klotzschia Cham.^ — Flowers polygamo-monoecious (nearly of 

 Azorella) ; sepals evolute, persistent. Petals 5, narrow, uncinate at 

 pointed apex, within carinate above. Styles subulate, at base thickened 

 to conical stylopods. Fruit ovoid striated ; carpels semiterete ; com- 

 missure wide ; carpophore simple. Primary ridges subequally obtuse ; 

 dorsal and commissural 3 ; intrajugal vittse thin or 0. Seed at face 

 nearly flat or rather concave. — Glabrous herbs; leaves^ peltate 

 digitinerved, 3-5-angular, lobed or, except at denticulate margin, 

 entire ; inflorescence cymiform ; ^ central flower hermaphrodite sessile 



^ Jacq. Coll. iii. 247 (1789) ; Ic. Ear. ii. t. 350. — H. B. K. Ncv. Gen. et Sp. t. 424 {Fjagosa).— 



—Koch, Umb. \^2.—DG.Prodr. iv. 81.— Endl. Turp. Diet. Sc. Atl. 1. 11 {Hi/drocotyle).—Fi¥.j.i> 



Gen. n. 4376.— B. H. Gen. 876, n. 9. et Gard. Sert. Fl. t. 40.— Hook. But. Misc. i. t. 



2 Phil. Linncea, xxxiii. 89.— B. H. Gen. 875, 46 {Puz^a), 63; Ic. Fl. t. 492 {B o lax) .—V-&il. 



n. 7. Fl. Atam. 24.— Clos. C. Gaij Fl. Chil. iii. 78, t. 



* Hook. f. Hook. Lond. Journ. vi. 468.— Os^- 30.— Hook. f. FL N.-Zel. t. 18 ; Fl. Antarct. t. 

 chatzm Walp. Ann. i. 3i0.— f Bichopetalum F. 11 {Pozoa) ; Eandb. N. Zeal. Fl. 87 {PuZoa).~ 

 MuELL. EooJc. Eeiv Journ. vii. 378, t. 11. Benth. Fl.Au&Pal. iii. ZQA.—W Axv.Eep. ii. 386, 



^ Lag. Nov. Gen. et Sp. 13 ; Amcen. ii. 93.— 937 ; Ann. i. 341, 343 {Spaxanthe), 977 ; ii. 693 



DC. Prodr. iv. 82.— Endl. Gen. n. 4377. {Bolax) ; v. 59 {Microsciadium), 60, 62 {BolaXy 



5 R. et Pav. Fl. Per. Prodr. 43, t. 54.— Lao. Pozoa). 



Avxcen. ii. 93.— Rich. Ann. Sc. Phys. iv. t. 51.— 7 Zinncea, viii. 327.— Endl. Atakt. 21, t. 19; 



DC. Prodr. iv. IQ.—Pectophijtwn H. B. K. Nov. Gen . n. 4381 {Klotzschia).— B.U. Gen. 880, n. 23. 



Gen. et Sp. v, 28, t. 425. — DC. Prodr, iv. 78. . ** In that resembling some Hydrocotylece of 



• Spec, about 30. Cav. Icon. t. 484, fig. 2. — the same region. 



R. et Pav. Fl. Per. et Chil. t. 249, 250 {Fragosa). ^ Sometimes 1 -flowered. 



