SCANDIX. 
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Tribe VIII. Scandicinece . 
16. Scandix L. 
1. S. Pecten- Veneris L. Agulha. 
Partial inv. 2-3-fid; beak of fr. very long dorsally com- 
pressed, strigose only at the edges. — Desf. i. 258 ; EB. t. 1397 ; 
Sm. E. FI. ii. 46; DC. iv. 221 ; WB. ii. 167, 168; Koch 346; 
Bab. 149. Chcerophyllum rostratum Brot. i. 460. — Herb. ann. 
Mad. reg. 1, 2, c ; PS. reg. 2, c. Cornfields to the E. and W. of 
Funchal, along the Levada de S ta Luzia, beyond Camera de 
Lobos up the Pico do Rancho &c., and in PS. general up Pico 
do Facho, towards the Fonte d’Area, &c. Dec. -May. — Root 
nearly simple tapering. PL mostly bushy and leafy branched 
from the base 6-12 in. high, with numerous ribbed spreading or 
diffuse short more or less hispid once or twice fork-branched st. 
L. numerous bright gr. finely and equably decompound 4-pin- 
nate, segm. all linear flat of equal breadth, the ultimate acute 
entire, apparently smooth but with the lens minutely strigose. 
Umbels stalked mostly forked or 2-rayed sometimes 1- or 8- 
rayed ; stalks and rays stout and stiff. Gen. inv. none ; partial 
5 or 6 leafy ovate or broadly lanceolate, deeply 2-3-fid, some- 
times simple, longer than the pedic., their edges ciliate. FI. 
w. rather large subradiant. Stylopod dark purple large raised 
and prominent surrounding the base of the styles with an angu- 
lar lobed cuplike elevated erect rim or collar. Styles very short 
not rising above the rim of stylopod. Carpels or seed-bearing 
part of the fr. 3-5 lines long compressed laterally, minutely rough 
or scabrous with raised points and a few short strigose bristles 
pointed forwards ; the grooves between the primary ribs shal- 
low, darker than the rest, like 8 dusky stripes. Beaks 1-3 in. 
long, 3-8 times the length of the carpels, 2-edged, the edges 
strigose or very rough with copious short stiff' adpressed bristles 
pointing forw r ards, finely acuminate tipped w r ith the angular 
plaited atropurpureous stylopods and straight erect approximate 
short styles. Carpophore entire undivided. 
S. brachycarpa Guss. with entire partial inv. and beak of 
dorsally compressed fr. short scarcely twice the length of the 
carpels, and S. australis L. FI. Gr. t. 285 with fr. laterally com- 
pressed and hispid all over, have not occurred. 
