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1001. 'b Port Jackson. — Wormia madagascariensis, DC. 5 Mada- 

 gascar. — Dillenia ornata, Wall. pi. as. rar. 1, t. 23. b Banks of the 

 Attaran. — Acrotrema costatum. Jack. %. Penang. A. Arnottiaiium, 

 Wight, ill. 1, t. 3. 2|. Malabar; wet ditches. — Schumacheria casta- 

 neifolia, Vahl. ; Wight, ill. 1 , t. 4. 3 v^ Ceylon. 



ORDER X.— APIACE^:, Lindl. Nat. Syst. p. 21. 

 (Umbelliferse. Juss.) 



THE CELERY TRIBE. 



Herbaceous, rarely shrubby, plants, " natives chiefly of the northern 

 hemisphere, inhabiting groves, thickets, plains, marshes, and waste places. 

 They appear to be extremely rare in all tropical countries, except at 

 considerable elevations, where they gradually increase in number as the 

 other parts of vegetation acquire an extra-tropical, or mountain character. 

 Hence, although they are hardly known in the plains of India, they abound 

 on the mountains of the Himalaya." (Lindl.) According to DC, pr. they 

 amounted, in 1830, to about 1000 species, of which 360 inhabit Europe; 

 136, S. America; 113, Caucasus and the Levant; 71, N.America; 59, S. 

 Africa; 49, N. Africa; 38, New Holland; 31, Siberia; 11, Java; 7, New 

 Zealand ; 6, the Canaries ; 6, China and Japan ; 4, the Mascarenhas Islands ; 

 3, Van Diemen's Land; 2, Tristan da Cunha; 1, St. Helena; and 1 Arabia. 

 Twenty were common to several countries, and 18 unknown as to their 

 native place. — The Indian species, enumerated by DC. 1. c, amounted to 

 about 74, but have now, as far as we can calculate, risen to 105 ; viz. 6 — 8 

 of Hydrocotyle ; 1 of Sanicula ; 4 of Helosciadium ; 2 of Laserpitium ; 5 of 

 Ptychotis ; 1 of Falcaria ; 3 of Sison ; 2 of Ammi ? 1 of Carum ; 3 of 

 Pimpinella ; 1 of Sium ; 1 1 of Bupleurum ; 2 of Oenanthe ; 3 of Dasyloma ; 

 1 of Faniculum ; 1 of Eriocyda ; 1 of Seseli ; 1 of Cnidium ; 1 of Trachy- 

 dium ; 2 of Hymenidium ; 3 of Athamanta ; 3 of Ligusticum ; 5 of Selinum ? 

 1 of Archangelica ; 1 of Palimbia ; 3 of Peucedanum ; 1 of Anethum ; 1 of 

 Cortia ; 2 of Pastinaca ; 8 of Heracleum ; 1 of Tordyliopsis ; 1 of Tor His ; 

 4 of Chcerophyllum ; 1 of Pycnocycla ; 1 of Osmorrhiza ; 1 of Ozodia ; 1 of 

 Prangos ; 1 of Vicatia ; 1 of Pleurospermum ; and 9 of Hymenolcena. Royle 

 (///. p. 228.) says that the whole number is 127 species for the Indian 

 Flora, of which eleven are found in the plains and at the foot of the hills, 

 seven only in a cultivated state, and the remainder in the mountains, with 

 the exception of a few in the Peninsula ; but if we deduct from his herba- 

 rium those forms it has in common with Wallich's Cat. and some European 

 species, our estimati on is, we suppose, pretty correct. The S. African 

 Apiacese having since 1830 increased to 120 species, (Harvey's gen. of S. 



