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leaves alternate, collected at top of twigs, imparipinnate ; stipules 

 internally adnate to petiole and little prominent; inflorescence, &c., 

 of Myodocarpus ; pedicels articulate under flower and there sometimes 

 dilated. {N. Caledonia?) 



97 ? Pseudosciadium H. Bn.^ — Flowers ' polygamous (nearly 

 of Delarbrea) ; calyx gamosepalous, 5-fid. Petals 5, concave, 

 attenuate at base, carinate within, valvate.* Styles at base confluent 

 with thick epigynous disk, 2-morphous, short in male flower, in 

 female long subclavate recurved, revolute at pointed apex, stigmatose 

 within and at apex. Fruit (very immature) ovoid slightly compressed 

 glabrous exalate. — ^A shrub ; stem subsimple ; leaves collected at apex 

 of stem or branches imparipinnate ; petiole long, dilated at base to a 

 ring (stipplar ?) ; flowers in a very long compound ramose-umbelluli- 

 ferous raceme ; pedicels articulated far from flower.® (N. Caledonia.^) 



98. Mackinlaya F. Muell.^ — Flowers ' polygamous ; sepals 

 acute. Petals^ unguiculate, carinate within, produced to long in- 

 duplicate point, valvate. Styles erect, finally recurved, seated upon 

 a depressed epigynous disk undulately lobed. at margin. Fruit "• much 

 compressed contrary to septum, orbicularly sub-2-dymous, cordato- or 

 renato-rotundate, drupaceous ; pyrenes 2, rather hard cartilaginous 

 much compressed. Seed (" bluish ") conformed; albumen uniform 

 subhorny ; embryo very small subapical. — A small glabrous shrub ; 

 leaves alternate digitate; leaflets with few teeth; "stipules mem- 

 branous adnate to rather long petiole; " flowers in decompound 

 umbel ; bracts short linear ; pedicels (at least in age glabrous) 

 articulate under flower." {Trop. east. Australia."^) 



99. Apiopetalum H. Bn." — Flowers" oftener hermaphrodite; 

 receptacle obconical, nearly enclosing adnate germen. Sepals 5, 

 narrow. Petals '® alternate 6, unguiculate, inflexed at acute apex, 



' Spec, atout 3. H. Bw. Adansonia, xii. 130. 937, n. 7.— H. Bn. Adansonia, xii. 131, 133. 



= Adansonia, xii. 131. « Small, " yellow, glabrous." 



3 Greenish while, minute. 9 Of the UmbelUferoB. 



* White (quite of some true TTmbeUifera, i» " Darkening from blue." 



whence generic name). ii A genus apparently very near Pseudoseia- 



5 A genus which, when the fruit is better dium; petals the same ; but diflfering chiefly by 



known, will perhaps become a sect, of Deldrbrea digitate leaves and nature of disk, 



or Myodocarpus, as yet, from the nature of its 12 Spec. 1. M. macrosciadia F. Muell.— 



petals, styles and young fruit, it is distinct Benth. Fl. Austral, iu. 38S.— Panax macrosoia- 



enough from both and very closely connects the deus F. Muell. Fragm. ii. 108, 176. 



true Umbelliferce with the Araliece. » Adansonia, xii. 133. 



« Spec. 1. F. Bulansa H. Bn. u Greenish or yellowish. 



•> Fragm. Fhyt. Austral, iv. 120.— B.H. Gen. '» Of the Umbelliferce. 



