UMBELLIFERM. 225 



or ovately pear-shaped, compressed contrary to septum, emarginate 

 at base from decurrent mericarps ; commissure rather broad ; primary 

 ridges subequally prominent obtuse, often rugulose ; vittae in furrows 

 solitary broad not prominent ; carpophore 2-partible. Seed subterete, 

 flat or rather concave at face. — Perennial herbaceous or subshrubby, 

 rarely shrubby plants, rigid glabi-ous ; leaves 3-sect ; segments or 

 folioles pinnately dentate, sometimes reduced to terete petiole ; 

 umbels compound ; bracts of involucres and involucels small few or 

 0.* (South Africa, Madagascar.^) 



53. Heteromorpha Cham, and Sohlchtl.' — Flowers * nearly of 

 Ehyticarpus ; sepals acute. Petals entire or gubentire ; point long 

 involute. Stylopods conical ; dilated at base to undulate margin. 

 Fruit subovate, compressed contrary to septum ; mericarps unequally 

 3-6-gonal. Primary ridges dilated to prominent, 8-angular unequal 

 wings ; ^ vittae in furrows conspicuous, oftener solitary ; carpophore 

 2-partite. Seed transversely subterete. — A glabrous shrub ; " leaves 

 2-3-lobed or 1-3-foliolate ; umbels, compound; bracts of involucres 

 and involucels oo , small.' (Trop.and south. Africa.^) 



54. Pyramidoptera Boiss.' — Flowers '° polygamous ; sepals 

 dentiform. Petals obovate-cuneate emarginate ; point inflexed. 

 Stylopods conical. Fruit obpyramidal, indehiscent, equally 5-alate ; 

 wings 3-angular ratherthick, long attenuate below, above confluent 

 with base of sepals. Mericarps unequal ; one 3-alate ; the other 

 2-alate oftener sterile ; carpophore scarcely conspicuous or ; vittae 

 00 , very thin irregular. Seed compressed at back, at face flat or 

 rather concave. — A glabrous perennial herb ; " caudex thick; leaves 



' A gen. very near to Zichtensteinia differing " With habit of some BupUtwa, sometimes in 



only in the nature of the yittse ; " from Setero- its leaves resembling some cultivated Araliece. 



morpha it differs only in its exalate ridges, from 7 A gen. in some respects apparently very 



SupUurum it is more distinct as well from its near to Bupleurum, in others to Mhyiicarpum. 



calycinal teeth and disk as that all its leaves, at ' Spec. 1, polymorpha, soil. S. ariorescens 



least of a young plant, are compound." (B. H.) Chait. et Schlohtl. — Harv. and Sond. Fl. Gup. 



' Spec, about i. Thunb. M. Cap. 254 \(Enan- ii. 642. — Hibrn, OUv. M. Trap. Afr. iii. 10.— 



the). — Harv. and Sond. Fl. Cap. ii. 541, n. 2 //. abyssinioa Hoohst.. — K. coUina Eckl. et 



{Bupleurum). Zeyh. — Bupleurum arborescens L. — Thunb. Fl. 



' Linnma, i. 385, t. 5.— DO. JiUm. 43 ; Frodr. Gap. 247. — B. trifuUatum Wekdl. et Bartl. 



iv. 134.— Endl. Gen. n. 4415. — B. H. Gen. 887, Beitr. ii. 13. — Terioria ariorescens S^tlbsq. Prodr. 



n. 45. Umb. (ex DC). 



< "Yellowish." » Di'ipi. Or. ser. 2, ii. 106 ; Fl. Or. ii. 1089. 



' Wings in one carpel oftener 3, in the other — B. H. Gen. 903, n. 86. 



2; sometimes 1, 2 narrower interposed. The '"'■White." 



larger often continuous with base of sepals. '^ " Face oi Laserpitium." 



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