U M B E L L I F E R M. 7 qk 



2. ACTINOTTJS MINOR, DC. I. C. 

 Eriocalia minor, Smith, Exot. Bot. p. 38, t. 79. 



Hab. New South Wales ; in the neighbourhood of Sydney. 



12. S A NIC U LA, Tourn. 



1. Sanicula Sandwicensis, Sp. Nov. (Tab. 88.) 



S. foliis ambitti rotundatis profunde palmati-3-5-partitis, segmentis 

 bi-trifidis incisisque, lobis oblongis vel fol. superiorum lanceolatis 

 argute inciso-serratis, serraturis aristulatis ; umbellis tri-quinque- 

 radiatis scepe proliferis ; floribus masculis breviter pedicellatis. 



Hab. Sandwich Islands : Hawaii, on Mouna Loa, at the elevation 

 of 8,000 feet: East Maui; on the mountains. 



Root perpendicular, fusiform, 6 to 10 inches long. Stem a foot or 

 two in height, angular, glabrous, as is the whole plant. Leaves 

 rotund in circumscription, about 2 inches in diameter, palmately 3-5- 

 parted and almost divided ; the cuneate segments 2-%-cleft and incised 

 or laciniate, sometimes five-cleft; the lobes oblong or of the upper 

 leaves lanceolate or oblong-linear, more or less incised, very sharply 

 and incisely serrate, with aristulate teeth. Petioles scarious-dilated and 

 clasping at the base; the uppermost and rameal leaves sessile, and 

 passing into the two-leaved involucres. Umbels of 3 to 5 rays, which 

 are longer than the involucels, and frequently proliferous. Umbellets 

 2% lines in diameter, exceeding the oblong-lanceolate and entire divi- 

 sions of the involucel, globular, densely many-flowered. Flowers 

 yellow, the male flowers short-pedicelled and exterior; the female 

 flowers sessile ; their filiform styles exserted and recurved. Fruit (of 

 which little occurs on the specimens) ovate, 2 lines long, echinate 

 throughout with long and stout hooked prickles. 



This interesting addition to the very few UmbelliferoB of the Sand- 



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