UMBELLIFEBM. 219 



38 ? Haussknechtia Boiss.' — Flowers subasepalous ; calyx com- 

 posed of 6 small teeth. Petals ^ obovate. concave ; with long inflexed 

 point. Styles curved, at base dilated to a single conical stylopod. 

 Young ^, fruit subterete, somewhat compressed contrary to septum ; 

 septum thick lacunose ; mericarps 5-angular ; carpophore . . . ? — A 

 perennial herb ; leaves dissected ; * scape high leafless much-branched, 

 floriferous at apex ; umbels compound subcapitate ^ globular, subsessile 

 along branches of inflorescence ; involucre small or ; bracteoles 

 of involucels few obtuse, equalling flowers, more or less connate, 

 white-membranous. ° (West. Persia.'') 



39. Athamantha L.^ — Flowers ' hermaphrodite or polygamous ; 

 sepals small, acute or subulate, sometimes {Kundmannia '") obtuse. 

 Petals oftener narrowed to long inflexed or involute point, entire, 

 emarginate or spuriously 2-lobed. Stylopods conical or thick, 

 undulate or rugose at margin. Fruit oblong, transversely subterete, 

 rather obtuse at apex (Kundmannia) or oftener subrostrate (Euatha- 

 maniha, Tinguarra ^^) . Primary ridges subequal, very slightly pro- 

 minent, sometimes rather thick hard (Kundmannia). Vittae in 

 furrows solitary or 2-3-nate ; the intrajugal sometimes thin. Carpo- 

 phore 2-partite. Face of seed flat or rather concave, sometimes 

 (TingvMrra) deeply sulcate. — Glabrous or canescent herbs; stock 

 perennial ; leaves pinnate, 2-pinnate or 3-nato-pinnately decompound ; 

 umbels compound, oo -rayed ; involucral bracts oo , few or ; bracteoles 

 of involucels oo . (Levant, south. Europe, Meddtter. region, Canaries.^'-) 



IV. CARE^. 

 40. Carum L — Flowers hermaphrodite or polygamous. Sepals 



' M. Or. ii. 960. Endl. Gen. n. 4531. 



2 " White." 9 White ; petals often hirsute. 



3 Mature unknown. '» Scop. Introd. (1777) 116. — DC. Prodr. iv. 

 ■• Nearly of Smyrnum or Pastmaca. 143. — Endl. Gen. n. 4426. — B. H. Gen, 903, n. 

 » From pedicels and peduncle heing very iZ.—Brignolia Bertol. Desvx. Joum. Bot. iv. 76 



contracted but not quite absent. (1814) ; Am. It. 97.— Mauki, PI. Pom. ii. t. 2. 



« Gen. apparently very near to JJ^Aewa, allied —Koch, Umh. W1 .—Campderia Lag. Jmcen. 



to some species of Seseli, especially not Oyatho- Nat. ii. 99. 



«eli urn. 11 Parlat. Webb Phyt. Canar.ii. 156, t. 71.— 



< Spec. 1. S. elymaitica Boiss. loc. eU. B. H. Gen. 896, n. 67. We have sometimes 



* Gm. n. 338 (part). — Koch, Vmb. 106, t. 49, seen solitary vittse in T. eervariafoUa. 



50 (not Scop.).— DC. Pro*-, iv. 154 (part).— " Spec, about 6. jAca. /c. iJar. t. 57 ; J^'^.^tjsi?-. 



EuDl. Gen. n. 4440.— B. H. Gen. 900, n. 77 t. 62.— Rbichb. p. Jc. J/. Germ.i. 1889 {Kund- 



{Athxmmiha) .—B. Bn. Admsonia, xii. 177. — mannia), 1934, 1935.— Boiss. J/. Or, ii. 969, 976 



Turbith Taxisch. Flora (1834), 343.— Endl. Gen. (^Kundmannia).— Wklb. Pep.y. 867 [Tinguarra) ; 



n. 4441. — Pltrocarvi Tausoh. loe. cit. 3 5. — Ann. ii. 701 {Kundmannia). 



