UMBELLIFERJE. 249 



receptacle rather thick obconical or subovoid. Calyx short, entire at 



margin, truncate or crenato-dentate or sinuate. Petals 4^6, generally 



united in circumscissously deciduous hood, sometimes free at base, 



rather thick, valvate. Stamens 4-10 ; filaments inserted under 



epigynous disk, incurved or inflexed ; anthers introrse dorsifixed, 



ofbener reniform-recurved, 2-rimose. Germen adnate to receptacle, 



inferior or free only at apex, flat or convex above, 3-lO-celled; style 



branches generally distinct from base, more rarely connate to middle, 



lineaj erect, or subulate recurved; ovule in cells 1, descending; 



funicle sometimes dilated covering micropyle. Fruit subglobose, 



obovoid or on drying angular drupaceous ; pyrenes 3-10, thick or 



crustaceous ; albumen of laterally compressed seeds uniform. — Trees 



or shrubs, glabrous or covered with adpressed stellulate pubescence ; 



leaves digitately compound or very rarely 1-foliolate ; folioles generally 



entire ; stipules interior to petiole often elongate ; flowers in simple 



or compound or corymbose umbelluliferous or capituliferous racemes, 



variously bracteate, inarticulate.' {Trop. America.^) 



104? Osmoxylon Miq.' — Flowers polygamous; calyx small 

 truncate or undulate. Petals 4-5, valvate and alternate with as 

 many stamens ; anthers ovate-oblong ; filaments inflexed to apex. 

 Disk thin. Grermen 4-5- or 10-celled ; styles very short.* Fruit 

 drupaceous globose ; pyrenes 1-spermous ; albumen of descending seed 

 uniform ? — Glabrous trees ; leaves entire, palmatilobed or co -digitate ; 

 stipules connate in entire or lacerate layer within petiole ; flowers in 

 compound or decompound umbels, capitate at top of pedicels or 

 umbellulate on "very short continuous pedicels"; bracts 1-3 

 squamiform under flower, sometimes persistent under fruit, entire or 

 lacerate.® {Ind. Aixhip.^) 



1 A gen. perhaps better reduced to a sect, of ' Aim. Mus. Zugd^^Bat: i. 5.— Seem. Journ. 

 Scfefflera, scarcely distinct from the Old World Sot. iii. 75. — B. H. Gen. 944, u. 28. 

 Heptapleura (often described under Sciadophyl- * As in some Seheffleras. 



lum), preserved here chiefly on account of its ° Gen. imperfectly known ; whether rather a 



American origin. Astropanax (a sect, of Sehef- sect, of Schefflera or Septafieurum 1 But form 



fiera) is syn. (ex Seem.). of perianth seems very different. 



2 Spec, about 20. L. Mantiss. 212 ( Vitis).— « Spec. 2, 3. Eumph. Serb. Ami. ii. 54, t. 12 

 Sw. Prodi-. 55 (Aralia); Fl. Ind. Oee. i. 519 {Pseudd-Santalum). — BucH. Secad. i. t. 9 

 {Sedera).—B. H. K. Nov. Geii. et Sp. v. 8, t. 417 lPseudo-Santalum).—LxT£K. Diet. i. 226 {Aralia). 

 (Aralia}.— 'P6iR. Diet. vi. 758.— Pl. et LinO. —DC. Frodr. iv. 262, n. 6 {Hedera).—Vio^s. Fl. 

 -dral. 23. Jnd^. i. 408 I^Oastonia) ? 



