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34. Fceniculum Adans.' — Flowers^ hermaphrodite or poly- 

 gamous, asepalous. Petals entire, involute at apex. Stylopods 

 thickly conical entire. Fruit oblong ; commissure broad. Mericarps 

 semiterete ; ridges thick rather prominent equal or unequal. Vittae 

 solitary, sometimes the intrajugal very thin. Carpophore 2-partite. 

 Face of seed flat or slightly concave.^ — Grlabrous perennial or biennial 

 herbs ; leaves decompound ; lacinise linear or filiform ; umbels com- 

 pound, ebracteate and ebracteolate.* {Temp, regions of Old World.^) 



35. Physostrichia Hiern.^ — " Teeth of calyx acute subelongate- 

 subulate, somewhat unequal, rather erect, in fruit little if at all en- 

 larged, persistent. Petals dbcordate, spuriously 2-lobed, on account 

 of inflexed lacinule 1 -nerved, not rayed (white glabrous). Stylopods 

 thick sublobulate ; stigmas large dark purple. Fruit ellipsoid-oblong 

 subterete, commissure wide ; carpels subplane at face ; primary 

 ridges prominent obtuse subequal, covered with dense cylindrical 

 vesiculately inflated papillae ; secondary ridges ; vittse in furrows 

 solitary (or in lateral furrows 2-nate ?). Carpophore 2-partite. Seed 

 concave at face. — ^A subglabrous erect rigid perennial herb ; leaves 

 radical rather hard, 3-nately or pinnately compound; folioles oval or 

 ovate ; simple or sublobate, or 3-foliolate ; umbels compound many- 

 rayed ; bracts of involucre and involucels oo , submembranous." ' 



36. Seseli L.^ — Flowers ' generally hermaphrodite ; sepals often 

 acute small or 0. Petals equal or slightly unequal, entire (Wall- 

 i-othia^°), subentire, retuse, emarginate or spuriously 2-lobed. Stylo- 

 pods high or depressed conical, entire or undulate at margin. Fruit 

 ovoid-oblong, erostrate or shortly rostrate, glabrous, tomentose or 

 hirsute, transversely subterete or slightly compressed at back. 

 Primary ridges short exalate subequal, sometimes raised ; lateral 



' Fam. des Fl. ii. 101.— G^RTif. Fmet. i. 105, de Fl. i. 712.— Walp. Sep. ii. 401, 938 : v. 864. 



t, 23.— Ho^FM. TTmb. 120, t. 1.— LAO.^mfflw. ii. " JotirnJ-Sot. (1873) 161, t. 132. 



99.— Koch, Umi. 112.-1)0. Prodr. iv. 142.— ? 1 Angola spec. P. Welwitsehii Oliv. allied 



Spach, Suit, d Suffon, viii. 203. — Endl. Gen. n. apparently to Seseli and to DiplolopMxmi, not 



4425. — B. H. Gen. 902, n. 81. — Hook. Fl. Ind. enumerated among the Umbelliferse in the 



ii. 695. —Gasparinia Bertol. Fl. Hal. ui. 614. — Flora of Trap. Africa. 



Ozodia Wight and Abn. Frodr. 375. ' Gen. n. 360.— DO. Mdm. 46 ; P^odr. iv. 144. 



" Yellow or greenish. — Endl. Gen. n. 4430.— B^ H. Gen. 901, n. 80.— 



' Longitudinally sulcata. II. Bn. Jdanaonia, xii. 176. — Hook, Fl. Ind. ii, 



* Flowers subaitioulate under germen, 693. 



5 Spec. 2, 3 (?). Beiohb. f. Ic. Fl. Germ. t. » Genefally white. 



1930, 1931.— Wight, Icon, t, 670.— 0. Gay, Fl. " Spbenq. Soim. et Sch. Syst. -ri. g. 46 (not 



Chit. m. 127.— Mia. Ann. Mm. Lugd.-Bat. iii. Roth), — DC, Prodr. iv. 162. — J)ethama Enul. 



59.— Boiss. Fl. Or. ii. 975.— Gren. et Godr. Fl. Gen. n. 4435. 



