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a single broad rib; pericarp exceedingly hard, composed almost 
entirely of strengthening cells. Styles very short. Oil-tubes 2 
on the commissural side; all rather small and not close to seed- 
cavity. Seed dorsally flattened, 
32. Foeniculum. Calyx -teeth obsolete. Fruit oblong, gla- 
bious. Carpel with prominent ribs, each with a group of strength- 
ening cells. Oil-tubes 2 on the commissural side. Seed some- 
what dorsally flattened. 
(2) . Fruit with plane seed-face, numerous oil -tubes, depressed or 
cushion-like stylopodium, and filiform ribs. 
33. Podistera. Calyx-teeth prominent. Fruit elliptic- 
ovate, glabrous. Carpel oblong-pentagonal in cross-section, the 
ribs slender and distinct. Stylopodium depressed. Oil-tubes 2 
or 3 in. the intervals, 6 on the commissural side. 
34. Pimpinella. Calyx-teeth obsolete. Fruit oblong to 
ovate, glabrous. Carpel with equal slender ribs (sometimes almost 
obsolete)’. Stylopodium depressed or cushion-like. Oil-tubes 2 to 
6 in the intervals, 4 to 8 on the commissural side. Seed somewhat 
dorsally flattened, with plane or slightly convex face. - 
(3) . Fruit with concave seed-face, oii-tubes solitary in the intervals 
and beneath the ribs, depressed stylopodium, and obscure or obsolete ribs. 
35. Apiastrum. Calyx-teeth obsolete. Fruit ovate or 
cordate, more or less tuberculate. Carpel with thin pericarp and 
no strengthening cells. Stylopodium minute, with short style. 
Oil-tubes 2 on the commissural side. Seed-face narrowly con- 
cave or silicate. 
(4) . Fruit with concave seed-face, numerous oil-tubes, conical or de- 
pressed stylopodium, and filiform ribs. 
36. Musenium. Calyx-teeth prominent. Fruit ovate or 
ovate-oblong. Carpel with equal filiform ribs, and thin pericarp 
with no distinct strengthening cells. Stylopodium depressed. 
Oil-tubes usually 3 in the intervals, very unequal in size (middle 
one largest), 2 to 4 on the comr issural side. Seed-face broadly 
concave. 
37. Eulophus. Calyx-teeth prominent. Fruit ovate to 
linear-oblong, glabrous. Carpel with equal filiform ribs, and thin 
pericarp with a very small group of strengthening cells beneath 
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