UMBELLIFER^. 245 



pedicels not articulate or subarticulate at apex, most frequently clearly- 

 articulate, {All warm and temp, regions.) — See p. 151. 



93 ? Aralidium Miq.'— Flowers polygamo-dicecious (?) ; calyx 

 short, 5-lobed. Petals 5, imbricate ^ (or subYalvate ?). Stamens 5 ; 

 anthers short. Disk central rather, thick. Female flower . . . ? 

 " Fruit' oblong- fusiform, crowned with 3-4 sessile ''stigmas, 1- 

 pyrenous ; putamen rather hard ; exocarp thin ; seed pendulous." — 

 A glabrous shrub ; leaves * alternate, irregularly dentate or pinnatifid ; 

 stipules little prominent; flowers^ in full very ramose cymiferous 

 raceme ; bracts minute. (Malaya, Ind. Archip.^) 



94. Coemansia March.' — A new genus of Araliacea, apparently 

 near Sciadodendron. 



95. Myodocarpus Be. and Gb.^ — Flowers nearly of Aralia ; 

 sepals 5 imbricate or valvate. Petals sessile,' imbricate. Stamens 

 5, inserted under depressed epigynous disk ; anthers short. Germen 

 inferior, styles 2, capitellate or acute at apex, angular below apex. 

 Fruit obovate, compressed contrary to septum, crowned with sepals, 

 produced below to 2 broad, dorsal relative to carpels, descending, 

 reticulate veined wings ; pericarp thin internally full of prominent 

 resiniferous vesicules penetrating the seed ; mericarps separable at 

 maturity, 1-alate, Seed descending ; albumen hard ; '" embryo sub- 

 apical minute. — Glabrous trees or shrubs ; leaves alternate, simple 

 or pinnate ; stipules adnate to petiole, little prominent ; flowers in 

 compound umbelliferous racemes ; bracts small few ; pedicel articulate 

 under flower. (N. Caledonia.^^) 



96. Delarbrea Vieill.^' — Flowers'' nearly of Myodocarpus: 

 sepals rather broad, imbricate. Petals broad at base or somewhat 

 ^arrowed, imbricate. Stamens and germen of Myodocarpus ; disk 

 epigynous broadly conical. Styles 2, erect subclavate, apex obtuse 

 stigmatose. Fruit ovoideo-subcompressed subdrupaceous, obtusely 

 costate ; sarcocarp filled with oleaginous vesicules ; putamens 2. 

 Seed dorsally compressed; at face concave or sulcate. — Shrubs; 



' Fl. Ind.-JBat. i. p. 1, 762, t. 13; Suppl. 340. iv. 38, t. 15.-B. H. <?«. 934, n. L— H. Bn. 



— B.H. Qen. 936, n. 6. Admsonia, xii. 130. 



2 They seem scarcely imbricate. ' " At base broad affixed " (B. H.). 



^ Rather large ("an inoli"). '» Except the vesicules mentioned above, 



* Large, elongate. uniform. 



* Minute, crowded. n Spec. 4-6. 



« Sper. 1. A. pmnatifdum MiQ. he. cit. '2 Bull. Soc. Linn. Norm. ix. 342, 393.— Bii. et 



' Bull. Acad. Roy. Belg. ser. 2, xlvii. n. 1. Gu. Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 6, iii. 233.— B. H. Gin. 



8 Bull. Soo. Bot. Fr. viii. 123 (1861) ; Ann. Sc. 935, n. 2. 

 Nat. ser. 5, i. 379 ; iii. 232 ; Nouv. Arch. Mus. " " White." 



