UMBELLIFEB^. 245 



pedicels not articulate or subarticulate at apex, most frequently clearly 

 articulate. {All ivarm and temp, regions.) — See p. 151. 



93 ? Aralidium Miq.' — Flowers polygamo-dioecious (?) ; calyx 

 short, 5-lobed. Petals 5, imbricate^ (or subvalvate ?). Stamens e5 ; 

 anthers short. Disk central rather thick. Female flower . . . ? 

 ^^ Fruit ^ oblong- fusiform, crowned with 3-4 sessile "stigmas, 1- 

 pyrenous ; putamen rather hard ; exocarp thin ; seed pendulous." — 

 A glabrous shrub ; leaves ^ alternate, irregularly dentate or pinnatifid ; 

 stipules little prominent; flowers^ in full very ramose cymiferous 

 raceme ; bracts minute. (Malmja, hid. ArcJiip.^) • 



94. Coemansia March. ^ — A new genus of Araliacece, apparently 

 ne ar 8c i a do dendron . 



95. Myodocarpus Br. and Gr.^ — Flowers nearly of Aralia ; 

 sepals 5 imbricate or valvate. Petals sessile,^ imbricate. Stamens 

 5, inserted under depressed epigynous disk ; anthers short. Germen 

 inferior, styles 2, capitellate or acute at apex, angular below apex. 

 Fruit obovate, compressed contrary to septum, crowned with sepals, 

 produced below to 2 broad, dorsal relative to carpels, descending, 

 reticulate veined wings ; pericarp thin internally full of prominent 

 resiniferous vesicules penetrating the seed ; mericarps separable at 

 maturity, 1-alate. Seed descending ; albumen hard ; '® embryo sub- 

 apical minute. — Glabrous trees or shrubs ; leaves alternate, simple 

 or pinnate ; stipules adnate to petiole, little prominent ; flowers in 

 compound umbelliferous racemes ; bracts small few ; pedicel articulate 

 under flower. {N. Caledonia. ^^) 



96. Delarbrea Yieill.^^ — Flowers ^^ nearly of Myodocarpus; 

 sepals rather broad,, imbricate. Petals broad at base or somewhat 

 narrowed, imbricate. Stamens and germen of Myodocarpus ; disk 

 epigynous broadly conical. Styles 2, erect subclavate, apex obtuse 

 stigmatose. Fruit ovoideo-subcompressed subdrupaceous, obtusely 

 costate ; sarcocarp filled with oleaginous vesicules ; putamens 2. 

 Seed dorsally compressed ; at face concave or sulcate. — Shrubs ; 



1 Fl. Ind.-Bat. i. p. 1, 762, t. 13 ; Suppl. 340. iv. 38, t. 15.- B. H. Gen. 934, n. 1.— H. Bx. 

 — B.H. Gen. 936, n. 6. Adansonia, xii. 130. 



2 They seem scarcely imbricate. ^ «« ^t base broad affixed " (B. H.). 



^ Rather large ("an inch"). ^o Except the vesicules mentioned above, 



^ Large, elongate. uniform. 



* Minute, crowded. n Spec. 4-6. 



8 Spec. 1. A.piunatifdum MiQ. Ice. cit. '^ i^^in^ ^oc. Linn. Norm. ix. 342, 393. — Br. et 



' Bull. Acad. Roy. Belg. ser. 2, xlvii. n. 1. Gii. A)tn. Sc. Nat. ser. 5, iii. 233.— B. H. Gen. 



8 Bull. Soc. Bot. Ft. viii. 123 (1861) ; Ann. Sc. 935, n. 2. 



Nat. ser. 5, i. 379 ; iii. 232 ; Nouv. Arch. Mus. i3 ^ White." 



