UMBELLIFERm. 253 



spikes or racemes, 1-bracteate ; pedicel not articulate. {East, icest, 

 trop. and south. Africa, Malacca.^) 



112. Hedera T.^ — Flowers ^ dioecious, polygamous or herma- 

 phrodite ; receptacle turbinate or obconical. Calyx very short, entire 

 or 5-dentate. Petals 4-8, valvate. Stamens as many, inserted 

 under depressed or more or less deeply conical disk. Germen 3-8- 

 celled ;* styles connate in cone or short column very shortly lobed at 

 apex (Eiihedera, Kissodendron^), or in great part or entirely free 

 subulate, sometimes finally recurved {Oreopanax ^) . Fruit baccate or 

 rarely subdrupaceous ; putamen thin ; albumen of descending seed 

 uniform, rugose or very ruminate (EuJiedera), — Trees or shrubs, 

 glabrous or tomentose ; leaves entire lobed, or digitately (Oreopanax), 

 sometimes pinnately (Kissodendroii) compound ; stipules minute or 

 ; umbellules or capitules of flowers in compound racemes or umbels ; 

 bracts oftener few or 0. {Temp, reg, of Old World, trop. and And, 

 America, Australia,'^) 



113. Curtisia Ait.^ — Flowers hermaphrodite, 4-merous ; recep- 

 tacle turbinate sub-4-gonal. Sepals 4, conspicuous, 3-angular. Petals 

 4, longer, valvate or slightly imbricate or contorted.^ Stamens 4, 

 alternipetalous ; filaments erect subulate ; anthers introrse, sub- 

 cordate at base, 2-rimose.^^ Germen in great part inferior, crowned 

 with thick glandular disk ^^ interior to stamens produced upwards to 

 short conical style stigmatose 3-4-lobed at apex. Ovules solitary 

 in 3, or oftener 4 (oppositipetalous) cells, descending, incompletely 



1 Spec, abont 10. Jacq. f. :EcL t. 61.— Colla, ^ Dcne. et Pl. Etv. Hort. (1854) 107, 108.— 

 Hort. Rip. 43, t 26.— Hochst. Flora (1834), 431. Seem. Joiirr,. Bot. iii. 270.— B.H. Gen. 949, n.34. 

 — DiETR. Fl. Univ. (1856) t. 90.— Harv. and ? Spec, about 60. Jacq. St. Amer. t. 61 (Jra- 

 SoxD. FL Cap. ii. 568.— Hiern, Oliv. FL Trop. lm).—8w. FL Ind. Dec. 518 (part).— Sm. Ic. 

 Afr. iii.'ai.- Walp. Eep. ii. 430 ; v. 925 ; Ann. PicL t. 4.— Griseb. FL Brit. W.-Ind. 306 {Scia-- 

 ii. 723. dophyllum).—R. B. K. Nov. Gen. et Sp. v. 1, t. 



2 InsL 612, t. 384.— L. Gen, n. 283 (part).— J. 413-416 {Aralia).- G. Dox, Gen. Syst. iii. 394. 

 Gen.2\\. — G^rtn. i^/MCi;, i. 130, t. 26.— Lamk. — Benth. FL AustraL iii. 384.— Miq. Ann. 

 Diet. iii. 511.— DC. Pro^r. iv. 261 (part).— Mus. Li(gd.-BaL ii. Ib^.—Boiss. FL Or. n.lQQO. 

 Spach, Suit, d Buffon, viii. 124.— Exdl. Gen. n. — Gren. et Godr. FL de Fr. ii. 1.— Walp. Rep. 

 4560.— Seem. Jonrn. Bot. ii. 303 ; iii. 201, t. 32. ii. 431 (part). 



—B.H. Gen. 946, n. 35.— H. Bx. Adansonia, * Hort. Kew. ed. 1, 162; ed. 2, i. 270 (not 



xii. 164. Schreb.). — Endl. Gen. n. 4577. — B.H. Gen. 



' White or greenish. 9^9, n- 3.-H. Bx. Adansonia, iii. 334 ; xii. 163. 



* Funicle of ovules oftener thickened to a ' But always much less than in the theoreti- 



small obturator over micropyle. cal fig. 214. 



^ Seem. / urn. Bet. iii. 201 ; v. 129 ; vi. 129. i" After dehiscence flat rayed. 



— /?Ti«/jriaF.MuELL. jF/aywj. v. 1 7 (not Hook.f.). ^^ Yellowish. 



