224 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



few or ; bracteoles of involucels oo , or 0. (Temp. Asia, Medit. 

 reg}) 



50. Szovitzia Fisch. and Mey." — Flowers ^ nearly of Triania ; 

 calyx minute or 0. Petals obovate, at apex produced to an inflexed 

 lacinule. Fruit obovate-oblong, somewhat compressed contrary to 

 septum ; primary ridges scarcely conspicuous filiform ; secondary 

 thicker suberose, transversely l-seriately plicate-lobed ; vittse in 

 furrows solitary thin ; carpophore entire or 2 -fid above. Face of seed 

 concave. — Grlabrous annuals ; * leaves alternate, 3-nately dissected; 

 umbels compound ; iavolucre ; bracteoles of involucels oo , small.' 

 {Caucasian reg.^) 



51. Lichtensteinia Cham, and Schlchtl.' — Flowers* herma- 

 phrodite or polygamous ; sepals rather large acute. Petals entire ; 

 point long inflexed. Styles short; stylopods conical, long adnate. 

 Fruit oblong or ovoid, compressed contrary to septum, sometimes 

 slightly constricted at commissure ; mericarps subterete or 5-gonal. 

 Primary ridges subequal thick obtuse, traversed by vittae ' within ; 

 vittse in furrows little conspicuous or ; carpophore 2-partite. Seed 

 subterete, nearly flat at face, often longitudinally sulcate at vittse. — 

 Perennial herbs ; '° stem erect naked or few-leaved ; radical leaves 

 simple, acutely dentate, 3-sect, pinnatifid or pinnately dissected; 

 umbels compound ; involucres and involucels oo -bracteate." (South 

 Africa, St. Ilelena.^"^) 



62. Rhyticarpus Sond.'' — Flowers nearly of Lichtensteinia ; sepals 

 acute. Petals entire ; costa not impressed, point long involved. 

 Styles short, dilated at base to broadly conical stylopods. Fruit ovoid 



' Spec. 8, 9. Walcst. et Kit. PI. Mar. Hung. Boiss. Fl. Or. ii. 80S. — Walp. Sep. v. 901. 



t. 72 [JPiinpinella).^ Jacq,. Fl.Austr.t. 28 (Fim- ? Linna-a i. 394, t. 5, fig. 3.— Endl. Oen. n. 



jomf?te).— Ledeb. Ic. JFl. Soss. t. 8 {TrCnfa).— 4416.— B. H. Gen. 887, n. 47. 



Reichb. p. Ic. Fl. Germ. t. 1870-1872 (Trinia). » " Yellow." 



Boiss. Fl. Or. ii. 852, 853 (Sumia). — Geen. et ' Thick cylindrical and filled with a dense 



GoDii. Fl. de Fr. i. 737 {Trinia). — Walp. Sep. oleo-resinous substance. 



ii. 391 {Sumia), 392 {Trinia); v. 848; Mn.i. "" With aromatic odour." 



344 (Sumia). 11 " A genus approaching the Sanietdeai in 



2 Ind. Sem. Eort. Petrop. i. 39. — ^Endl. Gen. -vittse. Fruit in form sometimes of the Ammi- 



n. 4600. — B. H. Gen. 926, u. 137. nea;, sometimes nearly of the iS««eKne<8. Flowers 



^ White. nearly of Heieromorpha." (B. H.) The same 



'' Habit somewhat of CMminwrn or i?amia. authors {Gen. 1008) doubtfully refer to this 



' Qy. if to SzovUzia should be referred Apha- genus Ruthea Serlaniea Boi.le {Verh. d. But. 



nopleura trachysperma Boiss. {Fl. Or. ii. 865), Ver. Prov. Brandeb. [1862] 1. 1, 2) whose furrows 



an Armenian herb whose secondary ridges are however appear widely vittate. 



said to be narrower and scarcely prominent, its 12 gpgp y^ 3^ Harv. and Sond. Fl. C.tp. ii. 



other characters being apparently sufficiently 542. — Hook. p. Icon. PI. t. 1033.— Walp. Sep. 



congruous f ii. 399. 



6 Spec. 1. S. callicarpa Fisch. et Mey.— ■' Fi. Cap. ii. 540.— B. H. G«». 887, n. 46. 



