Umbellifera}.\ FLORA of Tasmania 157 
stout, erect, slightly hairy below the umbels. Incolucral leaves subulate-lanceolate. Fruit pedicellrd, pedicels 
2 lines long; mericarps broadly ovate, about | line long.— Plate XXXIV. Kg. 1. flower; I, lateral riei of OT* 
rium; 3, transverse section of unripe mericarps ; 4, ripe fruit; 5, lateral view of ditto: 6. transverse section of ripe 
mericarp ; 7, vertical section of seed-. — all utaijnijii'd. 
2. Diplaspis cordifolia (Hook. 111.) ; petiolis scapisque patentini hirsutis, foliis rotundatis basi 
cordatis subcrenatis marginibus recurvis, umbellis multiiloris, lnenrarpiis obknigis.—Pozoopsis cordifolia, 
Hook. Ic. PI. t. 859. {Gunn, 204-3.) 
Hab. Marshy places on Mount Sorrell, Macquarrie Harbour, Gunn. — (II. Dec.) 
Very similar to the last, but larger, with spreading hairs on the scapes and petioles, rounder, more coriaceous 
leaves, with strongly recurved margins, many more flowers in the umbels, longer pedicels, and longer, oblong 
mericarps. 
Gen. V. DICHOPETALUM, Maell. 
Fmdus a dorso compressus, calycis limbi lobis 5 petaloideis deciduis coronatus ; mericarpiis parallel.- 
biscutatis, evittatis, 5-jugis, jugis 1 dorsali, 2 angulos obtusos mericarpii marginanhbtis, 2 oomrnkfU* 
valde contracts approximatis. Petala 5, lobos calycis requantia, oblonga, concava, apice non milexa. 8ta- 
www 4-5; st//loj,<>Jia crassa, stylis 2, subelongatis.— Herba stn<joso-lurta, huhUu Fragosia- ; radi.v .v./a-ym- 
5-7 -totalis, lobis 2>-o-dentafis ; scapis ebn,<j<ifis, pavijlnrix : umbellis irrr,,u!nnf,»x ; m\i>\\\cr\ foliolis 
2-4-loialls, herlaceis, hirlls ; radiis 2-3 ///" . 
involucelli foliolu lanceolate i floribna pi dicelhtti*, /,<■•• 
1. Dichopetalum ranunculaceum (Mueller in Trans. \i<t. Instit. l^>l-.>, p. :*.> ; Hook. . MUD. 
Bot.vii. 378. 1855, t. xi.). 
Tar. Tnsmanica ; major, foliis superne setosis, floribus minonbus. (Tar. XXX \ .) 
Hab. Var. /3. Mount Sorrell, Macquarrie Harbour, Milligan, Gunn.—{Y\. Jan.) 
Distrib. South-easteru Australia. (Summit of Munyang Mountains, elev. 5-7000 feet, Mueller.) 
An exceedingly curious plant, easilv recognized by the five large calyx-lobes equalling the petals, and exactly 
like them. Whole plant hispid with stiff long U**.-Root as thick as the thumb, fleshy. Uave* very numerous, 
3-5 inches Ion- on Ion- erect or spreading petioles ; blade about 1 inch across, broader than long, Worm, but 
hardlv notched°at the base, palmatelv five- to seven-lobed, lobes three-toothed, nerves radiating from the petiole. 
Scapes long, slender, inclined or prostrate, bearing few flowers, dispersed in an irregular, sparingly-branched umbel. 
Involucral leaves few, linear, herbaceous, lobed or cut; of the partial involucres smaller, narrower, more membra- 
nous Pedicels setose. Cahjx-tvhe with a few stellate hairs, that fall away from the ripe fruit. Mericarps of the 
same form and character as those of Diplaspis, but not so compressed. Calyx-lobes and petals verv decnluous. 
Stamen* four or five. Stylopodia large. Styles diverging. .Name Irom r, iy , d<M>, and a-cnzAor. a peta ,• m 
allusion to the large p,,a'loid clvx-lobe. -Plate XXX V. F,_ 1 .W . . ,' m, ILv p, .In.ll.u iuurs ; 3 , petal ; 
Gen. VI. HBMIPHUES, HooLJU. 
Frvctuiontos, obliquus, turgidus, 1-locularis! mericarpiis conferruminatis v. unico omnino evanido, 
tus, evittatus, 5-costatus, costis calycis lobis oppomtia 
? 8tam '■ s ;i ■■.■:. i:i -' - - 
teaerrimu d *, rolv.sfis ; umbella sxmplici ; in- 
volucri >/**/« in cvpulam mulMentatam coalitis ; floribus , 
s limbi lobis 5 imequalibus deck 
spicuis. Petala 5, lmearia, inter 
