534 BENGAL PLANTS. 
Order LXVI. UMBELLIFERZA. 
Herbs, rarely shrubs or trees. Leaves alternate, usually divided 
or dissected, sometimes simple; petiole generally sheathing ab 
base; stipules 0. Flowers regular or irregular, hermaphrodite or 
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flowers sometimes ray-like; bracts at base of general, and brae 
teoles at base of secondary umbels involucrately whorled. Disk 
epigynous, distinct from stamens and petals, variously 2-lobed. 
Sepals connate in a tube adnate to ovary ; limb adel or 0. 
Petals 5, epigynous, often unequal, with a median fold on the 
upper side, with the margin often ase or 2-lobed, imbricate . 
or reduplicate-valvate in bud. Stamens 5, epigynous; anthers . 
versatile; dehiscence longitudinal, lateral. Ovary inferior, 2 a 
~~ crowned by the disk ; styles 2; stigmas capitellate; ovules 
cell solitary, pendulous, anatropous. Frwit of 2 indehis- 
jel dorsally or laterally compressed ripe carpels \ueicas s 
separated by a commissure; carpels each attached to and often 
pendulous from a slender forked axis (carpophore), with 5 poy 
ridges (1 dorsal, 2 marginal, and 2 intermediate) nia often 4 inter : 
calated secondary; pericarp often traversed by oil-canals (ia : 
Seed solitary in each ne pendulous; albumen cartilaginous) — 
embryo minute, near hilum 
Umbels cane: fruit not vittate ; evn ~ sod soobeseeh Hydrocotyle 
Umbels compound ; fruit usually vitta 
, 7 vitt 
Leaves pains flowers yellow ; senha ridges of fruit a 
Leaves variously compound :— 
*Secondary ridges of the fruit inconspicuous cae 535] 
tPrimary ridges of the fruit not winged :—[p. 535] omnis 
Fruit laterally compressed, or at least constricted at the 
sure ; ridges of the fruit slender :— : 
Furrows of the fruit 2-3-vittate.........s00s-+e0"" : 
Fruit in cross-section circular, or somewhat eres she tri 
pressed = widest at the commissure; furrows 
1-vittate 
{Flowers ye i yeti ; leaves cut into filiform eo ae 
distinet, 2. partite calyx-teeth 0 [p: 535] s.+--00-B 
