TJMBELLIFERM. 241 



flowers in more or less elongate spikes or capitate ; each 1-bracteate ; 

 lower bracts smaller than the rest or oftener larger entire or lobed 

 and forming a more or less developed involucre, more rarely 

 (Alepidea ') very small under the flowers, irregularly disposed or 0. 

 (All tvarm and temp, regions!^) 



86. Astrantia T.^ — Flowers * polygamous ; sepals dentiform or 

 petaloid, sometimes very acute. Petals imbricate or valvate, from 

 intruded costa emarginate ; point long-induplicate. Styles slender 

 free ; stylopods dilated to a short thick disk. Fruit ovoid or oblong, 

 either subterete, somewhat compressed at back (Euastrantia) , or 

 slightly compressed contrary to septum (Hacqiietia ^) ; carpophore 0. 

 Primary ridges subequal smooth (Hacquetia) , or oftener {Euastmntia, 

 Actinolema ^) raised and transversely plicate-dentate, rugose or lobed, 

 not separable from endocarp (Actinolema^) or loosely inflated and 

 separable {Euastrantia) . Intrajugal vittae generally solitary. Seed 

 flat or concave. — Glabrous herbs ; subterranean part often tuberose ; 

 scapes simple leafless (Hacquetia), or with branched stem ; leaves 

 palmately lobed or dissected; lobes dentate or incised; umbels (?) 

 simple or irregularly compound, sessile (Actinolema), or pedunculate; 

 bracteoles of involucres oo , green (Hacqiietia) or coloured ; inflores- 

 cences umbelliform ;^ male flowers longer-pedicellate ; some oftener 

 disposed around a female flower sometimes central. (Europe, Levant.^) 



87. Sanicula T.^ — Flowers polygamous or monoecious; sepals 



1 Laroche, Hist. Eryng. 19, 1. 1. — DC. Prodr. "* White or pink, 



iv. 87.— Endl. Gen. n. 4385.— B. H. Qeii. 878, ^ Neck. Elcm. n. 306.— DC. Prodr. iv. 85.— 



n. 18. Endl. Gen. n. 4383.— B. H. Gen. 879, n. 21.— 



2 Jacq. Fl. Au^tr. t. 391; Ic. Rar. t. oo, 347. Dondia Spreng. Mem. Mose. v. 8 ; Umh. Prodr. 

 — Cay. Jcow. t. 552-556.— Labill. i\^.-^o^^. t. 98. 21, fig. 2.— Koch, Umb. 140.— DC. Prodr. iv. 

 — Desf. fl Atl. t. 53-55.— Reichb. f. Ic. Fl. 85.— Endl. Gen. n. 4384.— B. H. Gen. 879, n. 21. 

 Germ. t. 1847-1852.— Sibth. Fl. Orac. t. 258, —Dondisia Reichb. Consp. 144 (not DC). 

 259.— Wedd. Chlor. Andina, t. 69, A.— Hook. « Fenzl. Fug. Pi. Syr. 66, t. 12.— Boiss. Fl. 

 Icon. t. 216.— A. Gray, Man. (ed. 5) 190.— Or. ii. 831. 



Chapm. Fl. S. Un. St. 159. — Hook. f. Randb. 7 Concerning the centrifugal nature of the 



N. Zeal. Fl. 90. — Phil. Fl. Atamasc. 25. — Clos, younger inflorescence cf. H. Bn. Ada/zsotiia, xii. 



C. Oay Fl. Chil. iii. 110. — Benth. Fl. Austral. 178. Flowers in inflorescence here and there 



iii. 369. — Harv. and Sond. Fl. Cap. ii. 533 surrounded by some sterile. 



{Alepidea). — Hiern, Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. iii. 2, 3 « Spec, about 5. Jacq. Fl. Austr. v. t. add. 11 



{Alepidea). — Boiss. Diagn. Or. ser. 2, ii. 72; v. (Hacquetia). — Reichb. f. Ic. Fl. Germ. t. 184 2 



97 ; Fl. Or. ii. 820.— Gren. et Godr. Fl. de Fr. {Hncquetia), 1843-1846.— Sm. Exot. Bot. ii. t. 76, 



i. 753.— Walp. Rep. ii. 389 ; v. 845 ; Ann. i. 77.— Salisb. Par. t. 60.— Boiss. Fl. Or. ii. 830. 



343, 979 ; ii. 694 ; v. 64. —Gren. et Godr. Fl. de Fr. i. 752.— Walp. 



3 Inst. 314, t. 1C6.— L. Oen. n. 327. — Lamk. Rep. ii. 388; v. 845 {Actinolema) ; Ann. v. 64. 

 Dict.i. 322 ; III. t. 191.— Lag. Amcen. ii. 97.— ^ Inst. 326, t. 173.— L. Gen. n. 326.— J. Gen. 

 Koch, Umb. IZS.—BG. Prodr. iv. 86.— Spach, 225.— Hoffm. Prodr. f/>ni. 65.— Spreng. Prodr. 

 Suit, d JBufon, viii. 216.— Endl. Gen.n. 4384. Umb. 24.- DC Prodr. iv. 84.— Endl. G(n. n. 

 — B. H. Gen. 879, n. 20. 4382.— B. H. Gen. 880, n. 22. 



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