UMBELLIFER^. 347 



ciliate at margin. Stamens 5 ; filaments inflexed at apex, inserted 

 under conical epigynous disk crowning apex of germen and produced 

 above to 2-4 subulate styles.' Germen mostly inferior, 2-4-celled; 

 ovule in cells 1, descending ; micropyle extrorsely superior. Fruit 

 drupaceous oblong (immature) ; pyrenes l'-4, woody, sulcate. Seed 

 conformed to putamen ; embryo . . . ? — Glabrous or velvety shrubs ; 

 leaves alternate, sometimes collected at top of branches, petiolate, 

 simple oblong-lanceolate or subspathulate dentate ; flowers in long- 

 stipitate compound-umbelluliferous corymbs ; bracts of involucels oo .^ 

 {N. Caledonia.^) 



100. Astrotricha DC.''— Flowers ° asepalous or sepals short 

 dentiform. Petals 5, coriaceous, valvate. Stamens 6 [oiAralid); 

 filaments inserted under subplane or cupular disk undulate at margin. 

 Germen inferior, 2 -celled; styles free slender. Fruit ovoid, com- 

 pressed contrary to septum ; exocarp thin ; pyrenes 2, sometimes 

 spuriously hollowed in cellules ; albumen of descending seed uniform. 

 — Shrubs woolly or stellately tomentose in every part ; leaves alter- 

 nate petiolate simple ; umbellules in very ramose racemes ; bracts 

 small or ; pedicels articulate under flower. {Australia.^) 



101. Horsfieldia Bl.'— Flowers (nearly of Astrotricha) oftener 

 hermaphrodite ; calyx short or 0. Petals glabrous, valvate. Germen 

 2-celled ; styles 2, free, perceptibly dilated at base to stylopods. 

 Fruit ovoid laterally compressed ; carpels separable at maturity, 3- 

 costate ;" albumen of oblong seed uniform. — Tall aculeate, tomentose 

 or w:oolly shrubs; leaves alternate petiolate, peltate or cordate, 

 3-5-lobed or palmati-3-9-fid ; umbellules small capituliform in long 

 compound-ramose raceme ; bracts small ; the exterior larger mem- 

 branous imbricate ; pedicels inarticulate, often bracteolate. {Java.^) 



102. Schefflera Fobst,' — Flowers '" hermaphrodite or polygamous; 

 calyx dentate or entire, sometimes very short or 0. Petals 4-5, or 

 more rarely co , valvate, either separate (Heptapleurum,^^ Euschefflera), 



1 Anthers nestling in concave petals. ii Bijdr. 885. — DO. Prodr. iv. 87. — Endl. 



2 Appearance quite singular. For the plant Gen. n. 4387 ; Suppl. i. 1413. — B. H. Gen. 937, 

 in a species clothed with leaves resemhles n. 8.— Seem. Journ. Bot. v. 237 (part). — Sehu- 

 Srqussaisia. bertia Bl. Bijdr. 884. 



3 Spec. 2. H. Bn. he. cit. 134. » Spec. 2. Benn. PI. Jav. Mzr. 123, t. 26. 



■• Mem. 29, t. 6, 6 ; Prodr.iv. 74.— Endl. Gen. » Char. Gen. (1776) 45, t. 23.— J. Gen. 429.— 



n. 4363.— B. H. Gen. 937, n. 9.— Seem. Journ. Seem. Journ. Bot. iii. 175.— B. H. Gen. 940, n. 



Bot. V. 237. 18.— H. Bn. Adanaonia, xii. 138, 145. 



' Everywhere stellately tomentose. '" White, yellow or purplish. 



" Spec. 3, 4. Benth. Fl. Austral, iii. 379.— " G^ktn. Fruet. ii. 472, t. 178, fig. 3 (1791).— 



"Walp. Rep. ii. 385. Seem. Journ. Bot.' iii. 75 B.H. Gen. 942, n. 23. 



