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8 ? Polylophium Boiss.' — Flowers' of Laserpitium. Fruit ovoid 

 subterete ; carpels dorsally compressed ; commissure broad. Primary 

 and secondary ridges subequal dilated to undulately crisped fimbriate 

 wings. Vittse under secondary ridges solitary. Carpophore 2-partite. 

 Seed nearly flat at back. — Glabrous perennial herbs ; leaves pinnately 

 decompound; segments dissected; bracts of involucres and involucels 

 00 , entire or incised.' (The East.^) 



9. Melanoselinum Hoffm." — Flowers * of T/ia^sia; sepals minute 

 or 0. Stylopods depressed conical. Fruit oval or oblong oval, dor- 

 sally compressed ; commissure broad. Primary and secondary ridges 

 conspicuous ; the latter more prominent, the former depressed, some- 

 times filiform ; primary lateral hidden in commissure, entire or sul- 

 cate ; secondary 4, subequally raised in each carpel, obtuse not 

 produced to wing ; marginal thick unequally-dentate ; teeth conspi- 

 cuous from base to apex (Eumelanoselinum), or the apical rather larger 

 (Monizia '), sometimes obscure (JCornabenia '). Vittse under secondary 

 ridges solitary broad. Carpophore 2-partite, Face of seed flat. — 

 Perennial plants herbaceous (Tornabenia) or with very long caudex 

 frutescent or arborescent (Eumelanoselinum, Monizia) ; leaves pinnately 

 decompound, often large ; umbels compound, oo -radiate ; bracts of 

 involucres and involucels oo , sometimes small. {Madeira, G. Verde 

 Is.^) 



II. ECHINOPHORE^. 



10. Echinophora L.— Flowers polygamous; receptacle of the 

 fertile ovoid saclike. Sepals 5, superior, inserted in mouth of recep- 

 tacle, small, acute, oftener unequal. Petals 5, alternate, unequal, 



1 Ann. Se. Nat. ser. 3, ii. 47.— B. H. Gen. 929, « Whitish (?). 



n. 148. — Acanthopleura C. Koch, Bot. Zeit, ' Lowe, flboA. -Kew ./bwrM. viii. 295; Man. Fl. 



(1849) 408. — ScHLCHTL, Linncm, xxvi. 485. Mader. 365. — Hook. p. Bot. Mag. t. 6724. 



" Greenish-yellow. ' Parlat. Sook. Kew Jaurn. ii. 370. — J. A. 



' Eather a sect, of Laserpititm,. Sohm. Beitr. zur Fl. Cap.- Verd. Ins. 253. — B. 



•• Spec. 2. Pall. Roem. et Sch. Syst. vi. 447 H. Qen. 930, n. 160. — Tetrapkura Pahlat. 



(Cachrya). — Boiss. et Heldr. Biagn. Or. ser. 1, Sook. Niger. 131 (not Benth.). 



X. 46 (^Laserpitium). — Fenzl. Tchihatch. As. ' Spec. 4, 5. Schrad. et Wendl. Sert. Sannov. 



Min. Bot. i. 443.— Boiss. Fl. Or. ii. 1066. ' iii. 23, t. 43 (Selinum) .—'Rook. f. Bot. Misc. t. 



' Umb. (ed. 2) 156 (1814).- Koch, Umb.75.— 5670 (Thapsia). — WxhF. Ann. ii. 714 (Tetra. 



DC. Prodr. iv. 208.— Endl. Gen. u.. 4494.— H. pleura). 

 Bn. Adansonia, xii. 167. 



