240 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



84. Bowlesia E. et Pav.'— Flowers ^ polygamous; sepals con- 

 spicuous dentiform. Petals 5, entire obtuse, sometimes aculeate at 

 back (Drusa '). Stamens inserted under conical stylopods confluent 

 at base with short styles ; anthers often 2-dymous. Fruit much 

 compressed at commissure; carpels transversely 3-angular, flat or 

 rather concave at back ; intrajugal vittse thin or ; carpophore simple. 

 Primary dorsal ridges thin ; intermediate marginal at angles of meri- 

 carps ; lateral in face near commissure thin. Seed compressed back 

 and front. — Herbs glabrous or oftener with stellate pubescence, some- 

 times armed with barbed hairs or spines (Drusa) ; leaves digitinerved, 

 cuneate or lobed, alternate or partly opposite ; stipules foliaceous 

 small or reduced to ciliate scales (Homalocarpus ^) ; umbels in 

 dichotomy simple or irregularly compound ; bracts of involucres 

 small few or 0. (South And. and Mexican America, Canaries.^) 



85. Eryngium T.^ — Flowers ^ hermaphrodite or 1-sexual; sepals 

 expanded rigid, acute or sharp-pointed, or covered with scales (often 

 coloured). Petals erect or connivent emarginate; costa intruded; 

 point long induplicate ; more or less imbricate. Styles slender, girt 

 at base with lobes of epigynous disk (stylopods) various in form and 

 oftener depressed. Fruit ovoid or obovoid, not or slightly compressed ; 

 commissure broad ; mericarps semiterete, externally smooth or 

 aculeate ; carpophore ; primary ridges subequal, inconspicuous or 

 very little prominent ; intrajugal vittse thin or between the ridges 

 very thin, irregularly reticulate or 0. Seed subterete or compressed, 

 at face flat or rather concave. — Herbs shrubs or small trees, generally 

 glabrous, sometimes spinescent ; leaves entire, ciliate or oftener 

 spinous -dentate or lobed, sometimes grasslike or wider straight-nerved; 



1 Prodr. 44, t. 34 ; PI. Per. et Chil. iii. 28 (not Clos, C. Gay Fl. Chil. iii. 70, 92, t. 30 {Somalo- 



Pom.). — Speeng. Umb. 24. — Lag. Amoen. ii. 94. carpus). — ^Wedd. Chlor. Andina, ii. 187, t. 67, B. 



—Koch, Umb. Mi.—TiG.mm. 31; Prodr. iv. — Paulat. Webb Phyt. Ccmar. t. 78 {Drusa).— 



75.— Endl. Gen. n. 4365.— B. H. Gen. 876, n. 10. Walp. Rep. ii. 386 ; v. 842, 843 {Somalocarpus) ; 



^ White or purple, eometimes very dark. Ann. i. 341, 977. 



3 DC. Jnn. Mus. x. 466, t. 38 ; Prodr. iv. 80. « Init. 327, t. 173.— L. Gen. n. 324.— J. Qeii. 



— Speeng. Umb. 15, fig. 6.— Lag. Amcen. ii. 94. 226.— Gjeetn. Fruct. i. 77, t. 20.— J. Gen. 226. 



—Endl. Qen. n. 4372. — Lamk. Diet. iv. 751 ; Suppl. iv. 287 ; III- t. 



. < Hook, and Aen. T3ot. Misc. iii. 348. — Endl. 187. — Laeoche, Mist. Eryng. (Paris, 1808, in- 



e«!. n. 4374.— fBtaen« Walp. P/.i)f«2/OT. 346, fol.).— Lag. ^mcen. ii. 105 —Koch, T/mb. 13P. 



t. 8 (ex B. H.). —DC. Prodr. iv. 87.— Endl. Gen. n. 4386— B. 



* Spec. 10-12. Pom. Diet. vii. 155, n. 5 {Si- H. Gen. 878, n. n.—Lessonia Beut. Deless. Ic. 



ci/os).—LmK et Ott. Ic. PI. Mar. t. 4.— Colla, Sel. iii. 45, t. IS.—Strebanthus Eamn. Ser. Bull. 



PI. Rar. Chil. t. 19. — A. Rich. Ann. So. Phys. Pot. i. 218 (ex Endl.). 



iv. 160, t. 61, fig. 3.— Hook, Fl. Ind. ii. 669.— " 7 White, bluish or purplish. 



