Daucus. } ARALIACE.. 541 
solitary under the secondary ridges; carpophore entire or 2-fid. 
_ Seed semi-terete, dorsally subcompressed ; inner face flattened. 
917. Daucus Canora Linn.; F. I. ii. 90; F. B. I. ii. 718. 
Cultivated, especially in the western parts. 
A herb, stem 1-4 feet high. Vernac.Gajar. The Carrot. 
Order LXVII. ARALIACEZ. 
} Trees or shrubs, rarely herbs, sometimes scandent, or at first 
_ Scandent, at length rigid, frequently armed with prickles. Leaves 
alternate, or the u sometimes subopposite, long- -petioled, 
. ae, pakoeniva: or panicled heads; bracts and eae arneil 
| ‘ or inconspicuous ; ; sedivclo continuous with calyx-base, or jointed. 
7 epigynous, variously crenated. Sepals connate in a tube, 
adnate to ovary; limb truncate or with small teeth or obsolete. 
: Petals 5, rarely 6-7, or many, valvate or subimbricate, separating 
|  deiduonsl calyptrate. Stamens as many as petals and alter- 
_* h them, a erous, inserted outside the disk ; 
q styles as many as cells, connate or free; ovwes In each loculus 
: Solitary, pendulous, anatropous. Fruit usually small, pans 
ad 
ruminate ; embryo minute, near fa m, 
om slightly overlapping in bud; pedicels jointed ; styles —_— 
ves compound ; ovary (in our soeB 4- or more-chambered ; & 
seed uniform velereey Eksess 
Petals valvate in bud :— 
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umen of seed ruminate; pedicels continuous :— 
Styles distinct ; leaves more than once pinnately — 
Styles _ leaves simple and pao gee or if com- 
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Albumen of se uniform ; pedicels jointed Jeaves more than once 
Holy compound ; styles distinet sss 
