206 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



leaves springing from the coUum.' [East Caucasus, Daghes- 

 tan.^) 



14. Malabaila Hofpm.^ — Flowers * nearly oiHeracleum (or Peuce- 

 danum) ; sepals conspicuous, small or 0. Fruit obovate or ellipsoid 

 much compressed, with a more or less deep depression at apex, sur- 

 rounding the (sometimes rather thick) conical stylopod {Eumalahaila, 

 Lefebvria,^ Analyrium^); the thickened margin separated from the 

 cells by a subequal disk (Lefebvria, Opopanax,'' Sten-otcenia,^ Tetratcenia,^ 

 or sometimes by a little thicker disk {Eumalahaila, Zozimia '"), some- 

 times by a thin rather broad (Eumalahaila) or narrow {Tetratcenia, 

 Zozimia) space. Vittse either solitary in furrow, dorsal 4 {Zozinia, 

 Tetratcenia, Lefebvria), rarely shorter than the m.eTie&iir^s {Eumalahaila), 

 or more rarely {Stenotoenia, Opopanax) 2, 3. Face of seed generally 

 flat. — Perennial herbs, glabrous or oftener pubescent or hirsute ; 

 leaves pinnate or pinnately decompound or ternate; umbels compound ; 

 bracts of involucres and involucels oo , thin or short, sometimes 0. 

 (South east. Europe, Levant, north, and warm east. Africa.^^) 



15 ? Johrenia DC.'^ — Flowers ^^ nearly oi Feucedanum ; sepals 5, 

 more or less conspicuous. Petals broad ; point broad involute ; 

 sometimes [Du^rosia ^*) not radiating. Fruit thick ellipsoid ; thick 

 margin contiguous to cells ; mericarps either oblong (Eujohrenia), or 

 wider suborbiculate (Ducrosia) ; ridges thick suberose, but not more 



' Gen. very near to Serackum and Pastinaca panax Sibth. Fl. Grcee. t. 28S (not L.), referred 



differing chiefly in the ahseuce of vittsB and hy B. H. to Malabaila. 



carpophore. ' Hopfm. XTmb. 175, t. 4 (1814).— DC. Pz-offr. 



2 Spec. 1. S. graveolena 0. A. Mey. — B. H. iv. 195 (part). — ^Endl. Gew. n. 4478 (part). — B. 



Gen. 922 {Seradewm ?).— "Walp. Bep. v. 889. H. Gen. 924, n. 133.— Hook. Fl. Ind. ii. 717. 



' Umh. (1814) 125 (notTAUSCH).- B. H. Gen. ^^ Boiss. Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 3, i. 339 ; Fl. Or. 



923, 11. 131.— H. Bn. Adansonia, xii. 169.— Zei- ii. 1052. 



oiulus Ehkenb. Linncea, iv. 399. — DC. Prodr. " Spec. 15, 16. Boiss. Diagn. Or. ser. 2, v. 



iv. 669. — Endl. Gen. n. 4494. — Lophotcenia 100; vi. 84; PI. Or. ii. 1037 (Zoaimta), 1053, 



Griseb. Spie. Fl. Eumel. i. 377. 1058 {Opapanaoc) — SiBTH. Fl. Gicec. t. 281, 282 



■* Yellow or more rarely white. (Jleraclewn) .—'R^icmi. f. Io. Fl. Germ. t. 1943 



* A. EiCH. Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 2, xiv. 260, 1. 15 (0/)opa««a:).— Ghen. et Godk. Fl. de Fr. i. 693 



(1840) ; Fl. Abyss, i. 328, t. 55. — Lefeburia B. (fipopauax). — Walp. Sep. ii. 425 ; v. 873 {Opo- 



H. Gen. 921, n. 126. panax), 886, 89] {Zozimia) ; Ann. i. 353 {Zozi- 



6 E. Mby. herh. — Feucedanum millefolium mia) ; ii. 704 (Opopanax), 710, 712 (Zozimia). 

 SoND. Ji. Cop.ii. 559, n. 17. ^^ Mem. 54, t. 1; Prodr. iv. 196 (1830).— 



7 Koch, Umb. 96 (1824).— DC. Prodr. iv. 170. Endl. Gen. n. 4480.— B. H. Gen, i. 925, u. 135. 

 — B. H. Gen. 122, n. 130. — Opoponax Endl. Gen. '' White or yellowish. 



922, n. 4458 (part). i-i Boiss. Ann. Se. Nat. ser. 3, i. 341 (1844).— 



' The type is 0. orientate Boiss. Ann. Sc. Nat. B. H. Gen. 923, n. 132. 

 ser . 3, i. 330 ; Fl. Or. ii. 1059.— Pastinaca Opo- 



