226 NATUBAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



mostly radical, lanceolate from shortly sheathing petiole, 2-pinnatisect; 

 segments short ; laciniaB rigid acute ; umbels compound ; bracts of 

 involucres and involucels oo , Unear or more rarely dissected, deflexed.' 

 {Gahulia.") 



55. Bupleurum T.' — Flowers^ hermaphrodite or polygamous; 

 sepals scarcely conspicuous or 0. Petals rather broad, ovate or 

 rotundate, subcucuUate from cdsta widely prominent, apex inflexed or 

 induplicate, oftener coarctate in lacinule. Styles short ; stylopods 

 depressed entire. Fruit compressed contrary to septum ; mericarps 

 5-gonal. Primary ridges subequal, acute or subulate, sometimes 

 rather thick or subobsolete; lateral marginate. Vittse in furrows 

 solitary or oo , irregular, sometimes interrupted and unequally dis- 

 persed or ; Aattse sometimes also thin intrajugal. Carpophore 2-fid 

 or 2-partite. Seed subterete, smooth or sulcate, at face rather convex, 

 flat or more or less sulcate or concave ; margins sometimes involute. 

 — Annual, perennial or shrubby herbs, often rigid glabrous ; leaves 

 entire, often Unear or perfoliolate or cordate; umbels or capitules 

 compound ; bracts of involucres and involucels oo , foliaceous or 

 narrow, sometimes few or 0. (All trop. and temp. reg. of the world,^) 



56. Hoheaackeria Fisch. and Mey.® — Flowers' nearly of Bu- 

 pleurum ; sepals unequal acute 2-5. Stylopods conical. Fruit ovoid,* 

 commissure broad ; ^ mericarps subterete. Eidges subequal suberose- 

 incrassate. Vittse thin solitary or 0. Seed sulcate. — Low glabrous 



> A gen. of douttful place, a peculiar tribe of 1891.— Sibth. Fl. Grcec. t. 260-264.— Grss. PI. 



Fyramidoptera (according to Boiss.) by others Itar. t. 22, 23.— Jaub. et Space, III. Fl. Or. t. 



(B. H.) placed between Actinanthus {CEnanthe) 236.— Fenzl, III. PL Syr. t. 18 ; Tchihateh. As. 



and Magydaris, not farfrom Tneocarpus. Min. Bot. i. 417. — EicHw. PI. Casp. t. 10, 11. — 



^ Spec. 1. . cabulica Boiss. loc. cit. Kl. Waldem. Seis. t. 50-52. — ^Wight, Icon. t. 



3 Inst. 309, t. 163.— L. Gen. n. 328.- Lag. 281, 1006, 1007.— Mia. ^««. Mus. Lugd.-Bat. 



Aman. ii. 100.— Koch, Umb. 114, fig. 61, 62. — iii. 68.— A. Gray, Man. (ed. 5) 195.— Chapm. 



Spkbng. Syst. i. 880.— DC. Prodr. iv. 127.— Fl. S. Tin. St. 1 62.— Harv. and Sond. Fl. Cap. 



Spaoh, Suit, a JBvffon, viii. 176. — Endl. Gen. n. ii. 641 (part). — Fa. et Sat. Enum. PI. Jap. i. 179. 



4414.— B. H. Gen. 887, n. 44.— H. Bn. Adan- — Boiss. Diagn. Or. ser. 2, ii. 81 ; v. 97 ; Ti. 73 ; 



sonia, xii. 177.— Hook. Fl. Ind. .ii. 61i.—Agos- Fl. Or. ii. 834.— Gben. et Godk. Fl. de Fr. i. 



tana Salisb. Gr. Brit. PI. ii. 526.— Piaphyllum 716.— Walp. Pep. ii. 396, 937 ; v. 859 ; Ann. i. 



HoPFM. Umb. 112. — Isophyllum Hopfm. loc. cit. 347 ; ii; 700 ; iii. 897 ; v. 67. 



— Tenoria Spreng. Umb. Prodr. 27. — Buprestis « Ind. Sera. Hort. Petrop. ii. 38 ; Bull. 8c. Nat. 



Spreng. loc. cit.— Odontites Spreng. loc. eit. — Jfo.se. (1838) 320. — Endl. Gen. n. 4388. — B. H. 



Diatropa Dcmrt. Fl. Belg. 76. — Traehypleurum Gen. 886, n. 43. 



Eeiohe. Consp. 43. — ? Orimaria Eapin. Ser. 7 " Greenisb white or yellow." 



Bull. Bot.lli (ex Endl.). s"Or heteromorphous from mutual pres- 



* Yellow or greenish. sure." 



5 Spec, about 60 (enumer. to 100). Cay. Icon. '.Eeceptacle produced beyond cells in short 



t. 106. — jAca. Ic. Ear. t. 66, 361. — Desp. Fl. tube and crowned with persistent subspinescent 

 Atl. t. 66, 57.— Keiohb. p. Ic. Fl. Germ. 1. 1880- 



