UMBELLIFEBJE. 243 



89. Actinotus Labill.' — Flowers polygamous; calyx subcam- 

 panulate or nearly flat ; teeth 5, sometimes very sllort or 0. Petals 

 entire, imbricate or sometimes 0. Styles at base enlarged to oftener 

 dorsal stylopods. Germen inferior, 1-locular, 1-ovulate ; style from 

 base 2-partite or 2-fid. Fruit ^ unsymmetrical, unequally ovoid, 

 sometimes convex, 2-costate, at others nearly flat, 1-costate ; margins 

 costate ; intrajugal vittse thin or 0. Seed subterete, at face less 

 convex than at back. — Branched or sometimes (Hemiplmes ^) csespi- 

 tose herbs ; leaves dentate, lobed or oftener 3-nato-dissected ; scape 

 sometimes leafless (Hemiphues) ; umbels simple ; bracts of involucres 

 rayed green or subpetaloid, sometimes much evolute, coloured, 

 tomentose or lanate. (Australia.'^) 



90. Petagnia Guss.* — Flowers polygamous ; receptacle of fertile 

 ovoid or subpyramidal, enclosing adnate germen. Sepals 5, lanceolate, 

 inserted at mouth of receptacle. Petals 5, alternate, subequal, 

 attenuate at base to a claw, at apex produced in a long induplicate 

 point, spuriously 2-lobed from costa impressed above. Styles 2, 

 slender, recurved, surrounded at base by depressed crenate disk 

 (stylopod). Germen 1 -celled ; ovule 1, subapical pendulous. Fruit 

 dry ovoid costato-subpyramidal subcrustaceous, indehiscent ,• costse 

 2 thicker ; others very thin. — A glabrous perennial herb ; * leaves 

 palmatipartite ; lobes serrulate or incised ; flowers '' in repeated 2- 

 chotomous cymes (?); fertile sessile in dichotomy; pedicels few 

 (oftener 2, 3) of male flowers (or more rarely of female) springing 

 from the middle of the receptacular costae. (Sicily.^) 



91. Lagoecia L.' — Flowers ^'' hermaphrodite ; receptacle elongate 

 unequally lageniform. Sepals 5, long-aristate-dentate. Petals 5, 

 shorter subovate; point inflexed ; margins reflexed spuriously 2-lobed; 

 costa intruded above. Germen unsymmetrical," 1-celled, adnate 

 within to cavity of receptacle; one cell (anterior) effete or inconspicuous. 



' Fl. N.-HoU, i. 67, t. 92. — R. Br. Flind. Voy. Heterosei odium DO. (ex ips. Prodr. loo. cit.). 



ii. 557. — DC. Prodi: iv. 83. — Endl. Gen. n. « Habit of Sanieula. 



4378. — B. H. Gen. 880, n. 24. — Eriocalyx Sn. ? Inflorescence nearly of Cac^/opAyil/effi. 



Exot.Bot.i.^^,^9. — P/-oMs<ia Lag. (ex DC). » Spec. 1. P. aameulo'folia Guss. — Sison 



2 Glabrous or sericeous. Gussonianum Bale. — S. Gussonii Spbeng. Syst. 



. 3 Hook. r. Sook. Zand. Joitrn. vi. 469 ; Fl. Cur. Post, (ex DC). 



Tasm. t. 36. 9 Qen. n. 285.— Adans. Fam. des PI. ii. 102.— 



* Spec. 7. Hook. Icon. t. 847.— Lindx. Sot. G.EKTif. Fnict. i. 103, t. 23, fig. 3.— Lag. Jmoen. 



Beg. t. 654. — Benth. Hueg. Mnmti. 56; Fl. ii. 106.— DC. Prof?/-, iv. 233.— Endl. (jCT.n. 4518. 



Auatml. iii. 367. — B. H Gen. 880, n. 25.— H.Bn. Bull. Soc. Linn. 



6 Prodr. Fl. Sicul. i. 311.— DC. M4m. Omh. 35; Far. IS5. — Cuminoides T. Imt. 300, t. 155. 



Prodr. iv. 83.— Endl. Gen. n. 4380.— B. H. Gen. " White, smaU. 



881, 11. 26.— H. Bn. Bull. S:>c. Linn. Far. 173. — " Posteriorly gibbous and tlier&.setose. 



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