236 NATURAL SISTOBY OF PLANTS. 



auriculate, membranous (coloured), imbricate. Petals with adnata 

 induplicate point, retuse from costa impressed above, emarginate or 

 spuriously 2-lobed, induplicate- valvate or imbricate. Stamens fertile 

 elongate ; filaments incurved ; anthers introrse, sometimes apiculate. 

 Styles (in female flowers) elongate,' incurved ; stylopods subplane or 

 thickly squamiform within and concave above. Fruit subovate or 

 obovate, compressed contrary to septum, at base highly emarginate or 

 cordate ; carpophore simple. Primary ridges subequal thin, curved 

 or branched ; secondary sometimes oo , unequal. Seed laterally 

 compressed. — Small shrubs or herbs, erect or decumbent, glabrous or 

 with simple and stellate hairs ; leaves entire, dentate, lobed or 3-nato- 

 dissected ; umbels compound or subcapitate ; bracts of involucre small 

 or sometimes large (coloured), unequal or 1 -lateral; flowers^ some- 

 times few or rarely solitary. {Australia}) 



76. Siebera Reichb.' — Flowers * hermaphrodite or polygamous ; 

 sepals dentiform or 0. Petals subequal or unequal, entire or retuse ; 

 point sometimes shortly inflexed ; valvate or imbricate in prsefloration. 

 Styles slender; stylopods depressed disklike. Fruit compressed 

 contrary to septum ; primary ridges thin often curved ; dorsal some- 

 times rather prominent marginate. Other characters of Trachyviene. 

 ■ — Perennial herbs or virgate shrubs ; leaves entire, few or squamiform ; 

 the lower sometimes dissected ; umbels simple or at top of twigs 

 compound ; involucral bracts few or 0. i^Australia.^) 



11. Azorella Lamk.* — Flowers ' hermaphrodite or polygamous ; 

 sepals minute or more rarely conspicuous subpetaloid, sometimes 0. 

 Petals 6, of various form, entire or retuse, imbricate or subvalvate. 

 Stylopods thick depressed or conical. Fruit very various in form, 

 either subterete or transversely subquadrate, or more or less compressed 

 contrary or parallel to the septum, more or less (sometimes much) 



' White or pink. * White, small. 



' Spec. 17. Hook. Icon. t. 45 {Leucolcena) ; ° Spec, about 14. Cay. Icon. t. 485 (^Azorella). 



Sot. Mag.t. 3582.— BETSim Unmn. PI. Sue//. 55 — Labill. N.-Soll. t. 99-101 (Azorella).— 



{Leucolcena); Fl. Austral, iii. 357. Hook. Sot.Moff.t. 3334 (Trachymene). — Benth. 



3 Consp. (1828) 145 (not Siebera J. Gat, which M. Austral, iii. 351. 



is a sect, of Xeranthemum).-—B. H. Gen. 874, u. « j)ief. i. 344 (1783) ; Suppl. i. 551 ; III. 1. 189. 



4. — H. Bn. Adansonin, xii. 178. — Trachymene — J. Gen. 226, 453. — Gaudioh, Ann. Se. Nat. 



DC. Prodr. iv. 72 (not Budge). — Fisohera ser. 1, v. 104, t. 3. — DC. Frodr. iv. 77.— Endl. 



Sprenq. Umb. Prodr. (1813^ 27 (part), not Gen. n. 4366.— B. H. &en. 874, u. 6.—Chamitis 



FischeriaDC^lSlS). — Platysace'Ba^. PI. Preiss. Banks, Gteiin. Fruct. i. 94, t. 22. — Bolax 



i. 285. — P/at>,carpiUium E. Muell. ffook. Kew Commeus. /. Gen. 226. 



Journ. ix. 3C9. ^ White or yellowish. 



