244 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



Style 1, superposed to sterile cell, slightly capitellate at stigmatose 

 apex ; disk epigynous (stylopod) unequally 2-lobed ; anterior lobe 

 much larger. Ovule in fertile cell 1, descending ; micropyle extrorsely 

 superior.' Fruit oblong-OYoid, crowned -with sepals, evittate. Face 

 of seed nearly flat or rather convex. — Glabrous annuals ; stem simple 

 or slightly branched ; leaves few pinnate ; segments thin pinnatifid ; 

 flowers in dense globose simple branched umbels ; bracts of involucres 

 conformed to leaves pectinate -pinnatifid ; pedicels under calyx sur- 

 rounded by 4-5 bracts, alternating with and conformed to sepals. 

 (Medit. reg., Levant.^) 



VI. ARALIE^. 



92. Aralia T. — Flowers hermaphrodite or polygamous {Dimor- 

 phanfhus), 6-merous or more rarely 8-10-merous (Sciadodendron) ; 

 receptacle concave turbinate or deeply cupular. Calyx small, entire or 

 consisting of free dentiform sepals, sometimes 0. Petals inserted at 

 margin of receptacle, sessile, or valvate, or more or less imbricate 

 (^Euaralia, Dimorphanthus, Pentapanax, Acanthopanax, Eleutherococcus, 

 Brassaiopsis). Stamens equal in number to and alternating with 

 petals, inserted under depressed or convex epigynous disk ; filaments 

 oftener inflexed; anthers introrse dorsifixed, 2-rimose. Germen adnate 

 to receptacle or free only at disciferous apex ; cells equal in number 

 and superposed to petals, or 2, 3 {Aureliana, Brassaiopsis, Macropanax); 

 style short or rather long, subentire or more or less deeply lobed or 

 branched. Ovule in adult cells 1, descending from top of internal 

 angle, anatropous; micropyle extrorsely superior; raphe ventral; 

 fanicle short or rather long, sometimes thickened above micropyle 

 to obturator, Fruit drupaceous ; pyrenes 2-5 or more rarely 6-10, 

 smooth, rugose or costate. Seed in pyrenes solitary descending ; 

 albumen fleshy, uniform or more rarely rugose or ruminate {Macro- 

 panax, Brassaiopsis) ; embryo subapical minute, — Trees shrubs or 

 perennial herbs, glabrous, pubescent, setose or aculeate ; hairs short 

 simple or more rarely stellate ; leaves alternate digitate or pinnate, 

 rarely simple, palmatifid or lobed ; stipules small or sometimes long 

 projecting from base or sides of petiole ; flowers in simple or com- 

 pound umbels, sometimes more or less congested in a raceme ; 



1 Integument simple very short. t. 243.— Lamk. Diet. iii. 376 ; 111. t. 142.— Boiss. 



' Spec. 1. L. cuminoides L.— Sibth. Fl. Cfrcec. Fl. Or. ii. 832. 



