UMBELLIFER^. 243 



89. Actinotus LabillJ — Flowers polygamous; calyx subcam- 

 paiiulate or nearly flat ; teeth 5, sometimes very short or 0. Petals 

 entire, imbricate or sometimes 0. Styles at base enlarged to oftener 

 dorsal stylopods. Germen inferior, 1-locular, 1 -ovulate ; style from 

 base 2-partite or 2-fid. Fruit ^ unsymmetrical, unequally ovoid, 

 sometimes convex, 2-costate, at others nearly flat, 1-costate ; margins 

 costate ; intrajugal vittae thin or 0. Seed subterete, at face less 

 convex than at back. — Branched or sometimes {Hemiphues ^) csespi- 

 tose herbs ; leaves dentate, lobed or oftener 3-nato-dissected ; scape 

 sometimes leafless (Hemiphues) ; umbels simple ; bracts of involucres 

 rayed green or subpetaloid, sometimes much evolute, coloured, 

 tomentose or lanate. (Australia.'^) 



90. Petagnia Guss.^ — Flowers polygamous ; receptacle of fertile 

 ovoid or subpyramidal, enclosing adnate germen. Sepals 5, lanceolate, 

 inserted at mouth of receptacle. Petals 5, alternate, subequal, 

 attenuate at base to a claw, at apex produced in a long induplicate 

 point, spuriously 2-lobed from costa impressed above. Styles 2, 

 slender, recurved, surrounded at base by depressed crenate disk 

 (stylopod). Germen 1-celled ; ovule 1, subapical pendulous. Fruit 

 dry ovoid costato-subpyramidal subcrustaceous, indehiscent ; costce 

 2 thicker ; others very thin. — A glabrous perennial herb ; ^ leaves 

 palmatipartite ; lobes serrulate or incised ; flowers '' in repeated 2- 

 chotomous cymes (?); fertile sessile in dichotomy; pedicels few 

 (oftener 2, 3) of male flowers (or more rarely of female) springing 

 from the middle of the receptacular costse. (Sicily.^) 



91. Lagoecia L.^ — Flowers ^° hermaphrodite; receptacle elongate 

 unequally lageniform. Sepals 5, long-aristate-dentate. Petals 5, 

 shorter subovate; point inflexed ; margins reflexed spuriously 2-lobed; 

 costa intruded above. Germen unsymmetrical/' 1-celled, adnate 

 within to cavity of receptacle; one cell (anterior) efiete or inconspicuous. 



1 PL N.-Holl. i. 67, t. 92.— R. Br. Flind. Tot/. Hetcrosciadium DC. (ex ips. Prodr. loc. cit.). 

 ii. 557. — DC. Prodr. iv. 83. — Exdl. Gen. n. 6 Habit of Sanicula. 



4378. — B. H. Gen. 880, n. 24. — Eriocalyx Sm. 7 JxAoxQScencQ neaxlj oi Gary ophyllece. 



Exot. Sot. t. 78, 79. — Protistia Lag. (ex DC). ^ S-pec. 1. P. saniculcefolia Guss. — Sison 



2 Glabrous or sericeous, Gussonianum Balb.^ — S. Gussonii Spreng. Syst. 



3 Hook. f. Hook. Lond. Journ. vi. 469 ; Fl. Cur. Post, (ex DC). 



Tasm. t. 36. 9 Gen. n. 285.— Adans. Fam. des PL ii. 102.— 



■« Spec. 7. Hook. Icon. t. 847.— Lindl. BoL Gjertn. Frmt. i. 103, t. 23, fig. 3.— Lag. Amoen. 



Rpg. t. 654.— Benth. Hueg. Enum. 5^; FL ii. 100.— DC. Prof^/'.iv. 233.— Exdl. G^e/Mi. 4518. 



AustraL iii. 367. — B. H Gen. 880, n. 25.— H.Bn. BuU. Soc. Linn, 



s Prodr. FL SiciiL i. 311.— DC. Mini. Omb. 35 ; Par. Uo.— Cuminoides T. Inst. 300, t. 155. 



Prodr. iv. 83.— Endl. Gen. n. 4380.— B. H. Gen. lo White, small. 



881, n. 26.— H. Bn. BiilL Sjc. Linn. Par. 173. — ■ ^^ Posteriorly gibbous and there setose. 



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