UMBELLIFERJE. 



151 



the ridges of which the pedicels which bear the flowers of the following 

 generation are connate in their lower part; these may sometimes 

 be fertile but are much more frequently male or sterile. 



The place in this family of Lagoexia cuminoides'-{G.g. 183, 184), an 

 annual of the entire Mediterranean region, with the habit and foliage 

 of many Umbelliferce, especially of Oliveria, has been much contested. 



L^goecia ctiminoides. 



Fig. 183. Flower (f). 



Fig. 184. Long. sect, of flower. 



This is because its ovary with a single fertile cell, which is anterior, 

 is surmounted by a simple style, which is posterior, and an epigynous 

 eccentric disk surrounded by, besides the corolla and andrcecium, five 

 long straight sepals, divided at the margin into five aristate slips. 



VI. ARALIA SERIES. 



Though generally considered as belonging to a family distinct from 

 that of the Umbelliferce, Aralia ' (fig. 185-190), as we shall see, can 

 only constitute a section of it. The greater part have flowers in 

 pentamerous verticils. The receptacle also, in form a deep ovoid 



1 T. Inst. 300, t. 154.— L. Gen. n. 386 (part). 

 —J. Gen. 218 (part).— Lamk. Diet. i. 223 ; 

 Suppl. i. 416 (part).— DO. JProdn iv. 257.— 

 Spach, Suit, a Buffon, viii. 119. — Endl. Geti.-a. 

 4558 (part).— Pater, Organog. 409, t. 89.— 



Done, et Pd. Eev.Hort. (1854) 104.— B. H. Gen. 

 936, n. 4.— C. Koch, Wochenschr. (1864) 369.— 

 Seem, Journ. of Sot. vi. 133. — H. Bn. Payer 

 Fam. Hat. 338; Adansorda, lai. 135, 162, 163j 

 164.— Hook. Fl. Ind. ii. 721. 



