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19. Polemannia Eckl. and Zeyh.' — Flowers^ small; sepals 

 conspicuous dentiform. Petals oblong ; point inflexed entire. Stylo- 

 pods conical. Fruit subovoid glabrous, slightly compressed at back; 

 margin rather thick 1-toothed at apex.' Mericarps dorsally com- 

 pressed, at base decurrent to pedicel ; primary dorsal and intermediate ' 

 ridges little prominent. Vittse in furrows solitary. Face of seed nearly 

 flat. — Glabrous shrubs ; * leaves 3-fid or 3-nato-pinnate dissected ; 

 segments cuneate, 3-fid ; umbels in more or less branched and leafless 

 raceme ; the lateral simple ; the terminal compound ; bracts and 

 bracteoles subulate few or 0." {South Africa.^) 



20. Aciphylla Forst.' — Flowers^ hermaphrodite, oftener poly- 

 gamo-dioecious or monoecious; sepals conspicuous or 0. Petals entire, 

 retuse or variously emarginate. Stylopods conical or depressed. 

 Fruit oblong (Anesorhiza,^ Euaciphylla), oval {Gymopterus "), or oval- 

 oblong {Thaspium ") ; rarely obtuse or retuse (Cymopterus). Bidges 

 rather prominent, or (all or part) more or less widely alate (Thaspium, 

 Cymopterus) ; the sutural alate or exalate^ Vittse in furrows solitary 

 (Anesorhiza, Thaspium) or oo {Aciphylla (part), Cymopterus). Seed 

 at face concave {Cymopterus) or nearly -flat {Thaspium, Anesorhiza) , 

 often sulcate at vittae. — Perennial herbs, sometimes subcsespitose 

 {Cymopterus) ; leaves temately dissected {Thaspium) , 'f innate or pin- 

 nately decompound, sometimes reduced to simple petioles or to a few 

 linear folioles ; umbels compound often few-rayed ; bracts of involucre 

 and involucels oo , or more rarely 0, entire or more rarely dissected."' 

 {South Africa, Australia, N. Zealand, N. America}^) 



L. p. Suppl. 180. — Zaserpitium criihmifolmm sotome HooK. p. Fl. Antaret. i. 16, t. 8-10 (not 



Link. — Tenoria canariensiaSir'B.'EiSKi. — HeracUum Fekzl). — Gingidium P. Muell. Trans, Phil, 



canariense Chois. Inat. Viet. i. 103 (not Forst.). 



' Enwm. Fl. Afr. Austr. 347. — Endl, ffew, n. 8 VPTiite, yellow or purplish. 



4431.— B. H. Gen. 909, m. 104. 9 Cham, et Sohlchtl, Umcsa, i. 398 {Amm- 



2 Said to be white. j-Ai'ao).— B. H. Gen. 913, n. 115. — Glia Sond. 



' Hence resembling that of Todaroa ; but the Fl. Cap. ii. 547. — Stenosemis E. Mey. ex Sond. 



primary ridges are conspicuous, not the secon- loe. eit. 551. 



dary. 10 Rapin. Journ. Phys. Ixxxix. 100.— DC. 



* Habit oftener peculiar, e. g. in P. groasula- Prodi: iv. 203. — Endl. Gen. n. 4491. — B. H. 

 riafolia {Lepisma vertieillatum E. MEr.). Gen. 911, n. 111. 



* Gen. scarcely autonomous, on the one hand, " Nutt. Gen. PI. Amer. i. 196 (part). — DC. 

 as to its fruit, compared vnthAatydamia, on the Prodr. iv. 153. — B. H. Gen. 913, n. 116. 

 other hand hardly separable from 4 cipAyKa and '^ j^ genus closely allied to Zigusticum (i. e. 

 Auesorhisa. 



s Spec. 2. Hauv. and Sond. Fl. Cap. ii. 550. " Spec, about 30. Foest. Fl Austr. 140 (Zi- 



— "Walp. JJep. ii. 403. gusticum).—L. v. Suppl. 181 [Lasernitium). — 



' Char. Gen. 135, t. 68.— B. H. Gen. 912, n. DC. Prodr. iv. 169, n. 18 (ZiyMsjiCMw).— Hook. 



114. — H. Bn. Adansonia, xii. 169. — Galcsciadium Fl. Bor.- Aimer, t. 95 {Seliiiuni) ; Icon. t. 607. — 



Endl. Gen. n. 4442 ' (Suppl, iv. p, iii. 7).—Ani- Tokk. et Gr. Fl. N.-Amer. i. 623 {Cymopierm) 

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