240 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



84. Bowlesia K. et Pav.^ — Flowers ^ polygamous ; sepals con- 

 spicuous dentiform. Petals 5, entire obtuse, sometimes aculeate at 

 back (Dnisa ^). Stamens inserted under conical stylopods confluent 

 at base with short styles ; anthers often 2-dymous. Fruit much 

 compressed at commissure; carpels transversely 3-angular, flat or 

 rather concave at back ; intrajugal vittse thin or ; carpophore simple. 

 Primary dorsal ridges thin ; intermediate marginal at angles of meri- 

 carps ; lateral in face near commissure thin. Seed compressed back 

 and front. — Herbs glabrous or oftener with stellate pubescence, some- 

 times armed with barbed hairs or spines (Drusa) ; leaves digitinerved, 

 cuneate or lobed, alternate or partly opposite; stipules foliaceous 

 small or reduced to ciliate scales (Homalocarpus *) ; umbels in 

 dichotomy simple or irregularly compound ; bracts of involucres 

 small few or 0. (South And, and Mexican America, Canaries.^) 



85. Eryngium T.^— Flowers ^ hermaphrodite or 1-sexual; sepals 

 expanded rigid, acute or sharp-pointed, or covered with scales (often 

 coloured). Petals erect or connivent emarginate ; costa intruded ; 

 point long induplicate ; more or less imbricate. Styles slender, girt 

 at base with lobes of epigynous disk (stylopods) various in form and 

 oftener depressed. Fruit ovoid or obovoid, not or slightly compressed ; 

 commissure broad ; mericarps semiterete, externally smooth or 

 aculeate ; carpophore ; primary ridges subequal, inconspicuous or 

 very Httle prominent; intrajugal vittae thin or between the ridges 

 very thin, irregularly reticulate or 0. Seed subterete or compressed, 

 at face flat or rather concave. — Herbs shrubs or small trees, generally 

 glabrous, sometimes spinescent ; leaves entire, ciliate or oftener 

 spinous-dentate or lobed, sometimes grasslike or wider straight-nerved; 



^ Frodr. 44, t. 34 ; PL Per. et Chil. iii. 28 (not Clos, C. Gay Fl. Chil. iii. 70, 92, t. 30 {Homalo- 



PoiR.). — Spreng. Umb. 24. — Lag. Anioen. ii. 94. carpus). — ^Wedd. Chlor. Andina^ ii. 187, t. 67, B. 



—Koch, Umb. 142.— DC. Jf em. 31; Frodr. iv. — Pablat. Webb Phyt. Canar. t. 78 {Drusa).— 



75.— Endl. Gen. n. 4365.— B. H, Qe7U 876, n. 10. Walp. Rep. ii. 386 ; v. 842, 843 {Homalocarpus) ; 



2 White or purple, sometimes very dark. ^//w. i. 341, 977. 



3 DC. Ahn. Mhs. X. 466, t. 38 ; Prodr. iv. 80. « Imt. 327, t. 173.— L. Gen. n. 324.— J. Gen. 

 —Spreng. Umb. 15, fig. 6.— Lag. Amoen. ii. 94. 226.— G^rtn. Frmt. i. 77, t. 20.— J. Gen. 226. 

 —Endl. Gen. n. 4372. — Lamk. Bid. iv. 751 ; Suppl. iv. 287 ; III. t. 



* Hook, and Arn. Bot. Misc. iii. 348. — Endl. 187. — Laroche, Hist. Eryng. (Paris, 1808, in- 

 Gen. n. 4374.— ? £'/««ma Walp. PL Meyen. 346, fol.).— Lag. Amoen. ii. 105 —Koch, Umb. 13P. 

 t. 8 (ex B.H.). —DO. Prodr. iv. 87.— Endl. Gen. n. 4386— B. 



* Spec. 10-12. PoiR. Diet. vii. 155, n, 5 {Si- H. Gen. 878, n. U.—Iessonia Bekt. Pehss. Ic. 

 C//0*).— Link et Ott. Ic. PL Ear. t. 4.— Colla, Sel. iii. 45, t. 78.— Strebanthus Kafin. Ser. Bull. 

 PL Ear. Chil. t. 19.— A. Kich. Ann. Sc. Phys. Bot. i. 218 (ex Endl.). 



iv. 160, t. 51, fig. 3.— Hook. FL Ind. ii. 669.— ^ White, bhiish or purplish. 



