UMBELLIFERJS. 249 



receptacle rather thick obconical or subovoid. Calyx short, entire at 

 margin, truncate or crenato- dentate or sinuate. Petals 4-6, generally 

 united in circumscissously deciduous hood, sometimes free at base, 

 rather thick, valvate. Stamens 4-10 ; filaments inserted under 

 epigynous disk, incurved or inflexed ; anthers introrse dorsifixed, 

 oftener reniform-recurved, 2-rimose. Germen adnate to receptacle, 

 inferior or free only at apex, flat or convex above, 3-10-celled ; style 

 branches generally distinct from base, more rarely connate to middle, 

 linear erect, or subulate recurved; ovule in cells 1, descending; 

 funicle sometimes dilated covering micropyle. Fruit subglobose, 

 obovoid or on drying angular drupaceous ; pyrenes 3-10, thick or 

 crustaceous; albumen of laterally compressed seeds uniform. — Trees 

 or shrubs, glabrous or covered with adpressed stellulate pubescence ; 

 leaves digitately compound or very rarely 1-foliolate ; folioles generally 

 entire ; stipules interior to petiole often elongate ; flowers in simple 

 or compound or corymbose umbelluliferous or capituliferous racemes, 

 variously bracteate, inarticulate.^ {Trop. America.^) 



104? Osmoxylon Miq.^ — Flowers polygamous; calyx small 

 truncate or undulate. Petals 4-5, valvate and alternate with as 

 many stamens ; anthers ovate-oblong ; filaments inflexed to apex. 

 Disk thin. Germen 4-5- or 10-celled ; styles very short.* Fruit 

 drupaceous globose ; pyrenes 1-spermous ; albumen of descending seed 

 uniform ? — Glabrous trees ; leaves entire, palmatilobed or oo -digitate ; 

 stipules connate in entire or lacerate layer within petiole ; flowers in 

 compound or decompound umbels, capitate at top of pedicels or 

 umbellulate on '* very short continuous pedicels"; bracts 1-3 

 squamiform under flower, sometimes persistent under fruit, entire or 

 lacerate.^ (Ind. ArcJnp.^) 



* A gen. perhaps better reduced to a sect, of ^ jinn. Mus. Lugd.-Bat. i. 5. — Seem. Journ. 



Sdeffleru, scarcely distinct from the Old World Bot. iii. 75.— B. H. Gen. 944, n. 28. 



Ileptapli ura (often described under Sciadoph>jl- •* As in some Scheffleras. 



luiii), preserved here chiefly on account of its ^ Gen. imperfectly known ; whether rather a 



American origin. Astropauax (a sect, of Schtf- sect, of Schefflera or Heptafleurwn ? But form 



Jlera) is syn. (ex Seem.). of perianth seems very different, 



2 Spec, about 20. L. Mantiss. 212 ( Vitis).— « Spec. 2, 3. Rumph. Herb. Amh. ii. 54, t. 12 



Sw. Prodr. 00 {Aralia) ; FL Ind. Occ. i. 519 {Pseudo-Santalum). — Buck. Becad. i. t. 9 



{Htdera). — B. H. K. Nov. Gei). et 8p. v. 8, t. 417 {P.^eudo-Santalum).—ljAU^. Dict.'i. 225 {Anilia). 



(Aralia).— Pom. Diet. vi. 758.— £l. et Lind. —DC. Prodr. iv. 262, n. 5 {Hedera). — Koxb. Fl. 



Aral. 23. Ind. 1.-408 {Gastoxia) ? 



