246 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



leaves alternate, collected at top of twigs, imparipinnate ; stipules 

 internally adnate to petiole and little prominent; inflorescence, &c., 

 of Mijodocarpus ; pedicels articulate under flower and there sometimes 

 dilated. {N, Caledonia}) 



97 ? Pseudosciadium H. Bn.^ — Flowers ^ polygamous (nearly 

 of Delarhrea) ; calyx gamosepalous, 5-fid. Petals 5, concave, 

 attenuate at base, carinate within, valvate.* Styles at base confluent 

 with thick epigynous disk, 2-morphous, short in male flower, in 

 female long subclavate recurved, revolute at pointed apex, stigmatose 

 within and at apex. Fruit (very immature) ovoid sHghtly compressed 

 glabrous exalate. — A shrub ; stem subsimple ; leaves collected at apex 

 of stem or branches imparipinnate ; petiole long, dilated at base to a 

 ring (stipular ?) ; flowers in a very long compound ramose-umbelluli- 

 ferous raceme ; pedicels articulated far from flower.^ (N, Caledonia,^) 



98. Mackinlaya F. Muell/ — Flowers ^ polygamous ; sepals 

 acute. Petals^ unguiculate, carinate within, produced to long in- 

 duplicate point, valvate. Styles erect, finally recurved, seated upon 

 a depressed epigynous disk undulately lobed at margin. Fruit ^° much 

 compressed contrary to septum, orbicularly sub-2-dymous, cordato- or 

 renato-rotundate, drupaceous ; pyrenes 2, rather hard cartilaginous 

 much compressed. Seed (** bluish ") conformed; albumen uniform 

 subhorny ; embryo very small subapical. — A small glabrous shrub ; 

 leaves alternate digitate ; leaflets with few teeth ; ** stipules mem- 

 branous adnate to rather long petiole; " flowers in decompound 

 umbel ; bracts short linear ; pedicels (at least in age glabrous) 

 articulate under flower. ^^ (Trop, east, Australia}^) 



99. Apiopetalum H. Bn.^^ — Flowers^* oftener hermaphrodite; 

 receptacle obconical, nearly enclosing adnate germen. Sepals 5, 

 narrow. Petals *^ alternate 5, unguiculate, inflexed at acute apex. 



* Spec, about 3. 11. Bn. Adaasonia, xii. 130. 937, n. 7. — H. Bx. Adansonia, xii. 131, 133. 

 ^ Ada)isonia, -^li. \Z\. ^ Small, " yellow, glabrous." 



' Greenish white, minute. 9 Of the UmbelUferoe. 



* White (quite of some true JJmbellifercB, lo " Darkening from blue." 



whence generic name). n A genus apparently very near Pseudoscia- 



* A genus which, when the fruit is better dium ; petals the same ; but differing chiefly by 

 known, will perhaps become a sect, of Delarbrea digitate leaves and nature of disk. 



or Myodocarpus, as yet, from the nature of its ^^ gpe^^ i j^ macroiciadia F. Muell. — 



petals, styles and young fruit, it is distinct B'E.^fa.. Fl. Austral. Hi. 2%Z.— Panax macroscia- 



enough from both and very closely connects the deus F. Muell. Fragm. ii. 108, 176. 



true Umbellifera with the AraUece. ^^ Adanso)>ia, xii. 133. 



fi Spec. I. P. BalanscB H. Bn. u Greenish or yellowish. 



"^ Fragm. Phyt. Austral iv. 120.— B.H. Gen. i* Of the Umbelliferce. 



