UMBELLIFERM 239 



Mulinum) broadly 4-alate, crowned with st^des and enlarged sepals ; 

 primary ridges 5, linear; vittae within ridges or in mesocarp thin 

 branched ; carpophore simple. Seed flat. — Perennial herbs ; leaves 

 radical simple petiolate, more or less lanate or tomentose ; umbels 

 compound cymiform ; involucral bracts oo , sometimes foliaceous 

 lanceolate; bracteoles of involucels 2-oo ^ (Gape.^) 



82. Asteriscium Cham, et Schlchtl.^ — Flowers (nearly of Mu- 

 linum) polygamous; sepals acute. Fruit, &c., of Mulimmi ; carpels 

 nearly flat (Diposis ^), or concave at back (Euasteriscium) ; margins 

 thin {Gymnophyton ^), or rather thick (BustiUosia^). — Glabrous herbs, 

 sometimes with tuberous rhizome (Diposis) ; stem entirely or at base 

 foliate (Bustillosia), sometimes ramose subaphyllous (Gijmnopliyton) ; 

 umbels simple, go -flowered or more rarely (Diposis) compound, few- 

 flowered; male flowers pedicellate inserted under subsessile fertile 

 central one.^ (Extra trop. S. America.^) 



83. Huanaca Cav.^ — Flowers and fruit nearly of Mulinum; stylo- 

 pods conical gradually merging in style ; carpels less dilated, angular 

 (not aliform) at margin, dorsally more or less concave. Seed at face 

 nearly flat. — Csespitose herbs ; leaves radical petiolate, entire digiti- 

 nerved (Pozopsis ^°) or digitately 5-7-sect, sometimes pinnatisect 

 {Ganalma ^') ; stipules (?) scarious ciliate or glabrous ; umbels, at top 

 of simple aphyllous sometimes very elongate scape, simple or irregu- 

 larly compound ; bracts of involucres oo , free. {Extra trop, 8, 

 America, Mexico, Australia.^^) 



* In central um"bellule often several female cotylt). — Cham, et Schlchtl, Hoolc. Bot, Miic. 

 flowers, in lateral oftener 1. Male flowers i. t. 67. — Phil. Fl. Atamasc. 24 {G-ymnophyton)^ 

 generally peripheric, longer-pedicellate. A 25 [Bustillosia). — C. Gay, jPZ. CMl. iii. 95 {Di- 

 gen. generally enumerated among the ^m?/r«^(S. posis),- %^. — W alp. Rep. v. 848; Ann. i. 3^2, 



2 Spec, about 5. HARV.and Sond.'JF'^. Cap. ii. 978, 979 {Bushllosia, Diposis). 



565.— Walp. Hep. ii. 425. » Icon. vi. 18, t. 528.— DC. Mem. 32; Prodr. 



3 Linnaa, i, (1826) 254, t. 5.— DC. Prodr. iv. iv. 80.— Endl. Gen. n. 4373.— B. H. Gen. 876, 

 82. — Endl. Gen. n. 4370 ; Suppl. iv. p. iii. 2. — n. 12. — Triascidium Phil. — Lechleria Phil, (ex 

 B. H. Qen. 877, n. 14. — Cassidocarpus Prksl. Zinncea, xxxiii. 93, 94). 



(ex DC). — ? DipteryyiaFRBSL. (ex^:^Dh.). i" Hook. Icon. t. 889. — Diplaspis Hook. f. 



^ DC. Mem. 33, t. 2 (1829) ; Prodr. iv. 81.— Hook. lond. Journ. vi. 469 ; Fl. Tasm. t. 34. 



Endl. Gen. n. 4375 ; Suppl. iv. p. iii. I. — B. H. " The type of which is a Mexican plant. 



Gen. 877, n. 13. concerning which a few particulars are given 



* Clos, C. Gay Fl. CMl. iii. 102, t. 32.— rn- by Bentham {Gen. 897) under the genus Oreo- 

 tainicum Turcz. JBidl. Mosc. (1847) i. 169. myrrhis (?if H. geraniifolia DC. Prodr. n. 2, to 



^ Clos, loc. cit. iii. 106, t. 32. — Eremocharis us quite unknown). 



Phil. Fl. Atamasc. 25, t. 2 B. '2 Spec. 3, 4. Spreng. Umh. 37 {(Enanthe). 



' Sect. 3 : 1. Bmtillosia ; 2. Gymnophyton ; — Lag. Amcen. ii. 93 (Spnnanthe). — Benth. Fl. 



3 Diposis. Austral, iii. 366 (Diplaspis). — Walp. Ann. i. 



» Spec, about 9. Cav. Ic. t. 488, fig. 2 {Hydro- 341 {Diplaspis). 



