UMBELLIFERM 239 



Mulinum) broadly 4-alate, crowned with styles and enlarged sepals ; 

 primary ridges 5," linear; vittse within ridges or in mesocarp thin 

 branched ; carpophore simple. Seed flat. — Perennial herbs ; leaves 

 radical simple petiolate, more or less lanate or tomentose ; umbels 

 compound cymiform ; involucral bracts qo , sometimes foliaceous 

 lanceolate; bracteoles of involucels 2-qo .' {Ga-pe}) 



82. Asteriscium Cham, et ScHLCHTL.'^Flowers (nearly of Mu- 

 linum) polygamous; sepals acute. Fruit, &c., oi Mulinum ; carpels 

 nearly flat (Diposis *), or concave at back (Euasteriscium) ; margins 

 thin {Gymnophyton '), or rather thick {Bustillosia'). — Glabrous herbs, 

 sometimes with tuberous rhizome (Diposis) ; stem entirely or at base 

 foliate (Bustillosia), sometimes ramose subaphyllous [Gymnophyton) ; 

 umbels simple, oo -flowered or more rarely (Diposis) compound, few- 

 flowered; male flowers pedicellate inserted under subsessile fertile 

 central one.' (Extra trap. S. America.^) 



83. Huanaca Cav.'— Flowers and fruit nearly of Mulinum; stylo- 

 pods conical gradually merging in style ; carpels less dilated, angular 

 (not aliform) at margin, dorsally more or less concave. Seed at face 

 nearly flat. — CsBspitose herbs ; leaves radical petiolate, entire digiti- 

 nerved (Pozopsis ^°) or digitately 5-7-sect, sometimes pinnatisect 

 (Ganahiia ") ; stipules (?) scarious ciliate or glabrous ; umbels, at top 

 of simple aphyllous sometimes very elongate scape, simple or irregu- 

 larly compound ; bracts of involucres oo , free. (Extra trop. 8. 

 America, Mexico, Australia.^^) 



' In central umtellule often several female cotyle). — Cham, et Schlchtl, Sook. Bot. Miic. 



flowers, in lateral oftener 1. Male flowera i. t. 67. — Phil. Fl. Atamase. 24 {Gymnophyton), 



generally peiiplieric, longer-pedicellate. A 25 {Bustillosia). — C. Gay, Fl. Chil. iii. 96 {Di- 



gen. generally enumerated among the 5»i2/rKe<s. posis), 99. — Walf. Sep. v. 848; Ann. i. 342 



* Spec, atout 5. Habv. and Sotxd.'FI. Cap. ii. 978, 979 {Bustillosia, Biposis). 



566.— Walp. Mep. ii. 425. 9 Icon. vi. 18, t. 528.— DO. Mem. 32 ; Frodr. 



3 Zinncea, i. (1826) 264, t. 5.— DC. Prodr. iv. iv. 80.— Endl. Gen. n. 4373.— B. H. Gen. 876, 



82. — Endl. Gen. n. 4370 ; Snppl. iv. p. iii. 2. — n. 12. — Triascidium Phil. — Lechleria Phil, (ex 



B. H. Gen. 877, n. 14. — Cassidocarpus Prtssl. Linntsa, xxxiii. 93, 94). 



(ex DC). — ? BipterygiaV^-ESL. {ex'EiSDi,.). '"Hook. Icon. t. fil,^ .—Biplaspis Hook. f. 



* DC. Mem. 33, t. 2 (1829) ; Prodr. iv. 81.— Hook. Land. Journ. vi. 469 ; Fl. Tasm. t. 34. 

 Endl. Gen. n. 4376 ; Suppl. iv. p. iii. 1.— B. H. " The type of which is a Mexican plant. 

 Gen. 877, n. 13. concerning which a few particulars are given 



* Olos, 0. Gay Fl. Chil. iii. 102, t. 32.— Tn- by Bentham {Gen. 897) under the genus Oreo- 

 tmnicum Tdecz. Bull. Mosc. (1847) i. 169. myrrhis (?if H. geraniifoUa DC. Frodr. n. 2, to 



* Clos, loc. eit. iii. 106, t. 32. — Eremocharis us quite unknown). 



Phil. Fl. Atamase. 26, t. 2 B. '2 Spec. 3, 4. Spreng. Umb. 37 {(Enanthe). 



'Sect. 3: 1. Bustillosia; 2. Gymnophyton ; — 1jA.q. Amcen. ii. QZ {Spananthe) . — Bbnth. i?^. 



3. Biposis. Austral, iii. 366 {T)iplaspis).—W&VB. Ann. i. 



» Spec, about 9. Cav. le. t. 488, fig. 2 {Sydro^ 341 {Diplaspis). 



