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41. UMBELLACEiE. 
tuse. Vittae 0 or obsolete. Carpoph. free entire or bifid 
only at top. — Ann. herbs with finely decompound capillary- 
multifid 1., few-rayed umbels and w. fl. General inv. 0 or 
1 -leafed. 
Suborder HI. CCELOSPERM/E. 
Seed (albumen) hemispherically concave or hollow like a bowl 
on the inner commissural face, the margins incurved both ver- 
tically and laterally and both the vertical and transverse sections 
crescent-shaped. 
Tribe IX. CORIA NDREJE. 
Fr. globose or didymous ; primary ribs depressed or obsolete, 
4 secondary more prominent ; all apterous unarmed. 
17. Coriandrum. Cal.-rim unequally 5-toothed, teeth per- 
sistent very distinct leafy and enlarged in fr. Pet. obovate 
notched or obcordate with an indexed point, the outer ra- 
diant bifid. Stylopod conic. Fr. globose scarcely splitting 
or dividing ; primary ribs flexuose obsolete, the 2 lateral 
each at the base of the riblike accessory edge or border ; 4 
secondary simple filiform sharply prominent or keeled. 
Dorsal vittse 0, commissural 2. Carpoph. entire splitting 
only in the middle. Commissural face of alb. or seed cir- 
cularly concave, covered with a loose free membrane. — 
Inv. 0. 
Suborder I. ORTIIOSPERM/E. 
Tribe I. Amminece. 
1. Apium L. 
1. A. GRAVEOLENS L. Celery. Aipo. 
Smooth and shining ; 1. subtomately pinnate or pinnatisect ; 
Ifts. of the lower 1. large inciso-ternate stalked rhomboidally and 
broadly or ovately wedgeshaped inciso-toothed at top, of the 
uppermost small termite sessile lanceolate trifid or entire. — 
Desf. i. 206; Brot. i. 403; EB. t. 1210; Sm. E. Fl. ii. 76; DC. 
iv. 101 ; WB. ii. 150; Koch 311 ; Bab. 140; RFC. t. 1854. f. ii. 
— Herb. ann. or bienn. Mad. reg. 1, chiefly, but also 2, 3, c. PS. 
reg. 2, c. Seaclifi’s mostly in Mad. almost everywhere, but also 
occasionally far up the principal Ravines, as the Curral dos Ro- 
meiros, Rib. de S ,n Luzia, &c., and in the North, Rib. de S. Jorge, 
&c. I n the Serra de fora, PS., abund. May-Aug. — Root shortly 
fusiform not thickened but hard and woody at the crown. St. 
