Dauctis.] 
XXXIII. UMHELLIFEH/E. 
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pound. — Calyx-limb obscurely 5-toothed. Petals with an indexed tip. 
Fruit oblong, dorsally rather compressed ; carpels each with 5 primary and 
4 secondary ridges, both covered witli hispid short hairs, or with stout bristles. 
A considerable genus in temperate Europe and Asia, rarer in America aud in the southern 
hemisphere. The Carrot, D. Carota, has been gathered at the Bay of Islands, doubtless 
introduced (A. Gray). 
1. D. brachiatus, Sieber ; — FI. N. Z. i. 91. Pilose or glabrate, 6-12 
in. high. Leaves 2-pinnatisect ; leaflets incised, the ultimate divisions linear. 
Umbels axillary and terminal, of 8-10 unequal rays ; involucral leaves simple 
or compound. Flowers small, red. Fruit -Jg- in. long, larger ridges with a 
row of stiff barbed bristles, intermediate ones much smaller, with a double 
row of bristles pointing right and left . — Scandix glochidiata, Labill. FI. N. 
Holl. t. 102. 
Northern and Middle Islands : not uncommon iu dry grassy pastures from Auckland 
to Otago, Banks and Sol under, etc. Abundant in Australia, Tasmania, aud Western Ame- 
rica, from Mexico to Chili. 
Order XXXIV. ARALIACEiE. 
Trees, rarely herbs. Leaves alternate (rarely opposite), simple or com- 
pound, usually evergreen, glossy, stipulate or exstipulate. Flowers in umbels, 
less commonly in panicles racemes or heads, often unisexual. — Calyx-tube 
adnate to the ovary, limb truncate or 5-, rarely 3- or many-toothed or lobed ; 
lobes persistent in fruit. Petals usually 5, rarely 0, coriaceous, valvate, rarely 
imbricate, deciduous. Stamens inserted round an epigynous disk, usually 5 ; 
filaments incurved, subulate ; anthers oblong. Ovary 2- or more celled ; 
styles short, subulate, recurved, stigmatiferous on their inner faces ; ovide 
pendulous in each cell. Fruit succulent or coriaceous, flattened angled or 
terete, 2- or manv-celled, cells cartilaginous, 1 -seeded. Seed flattened, testa 
very thin ; albumen copious, fleshy or horny ; embryo small. 
A larpe tropical Natural Order, to which the Ivy belongs, but rare iu the north temperate 
zone, chiefly distinguished from TJmbellifera by the arboreous habit, evergreen foliage, often 
inany-celled ovary, and fruit never splitting into its component carpels. Some tropical spe- 
cies have anomalous characters, uot introduced iuto the above ordinal character, as 1-celled 
ovaries and coherent petals. 
Herbaceous. Pedicel jointed with flower. Petals imbricate ... 1. Stilbocaepa. 
Trees or shrubs. Pedicel jointed with flower. Petals valvate ... 2. Panax. 
Tree. Pedicel not jointed with flower. Petals valvate 3. Schf.ffleka. 
Tree. Pedicel not jointed with flower. Petals 0 4. Mebyta. 
1. STILBOCARPA, Decaisne and Planchon. 
A large, much branched, stout, fleshy herb. Stem fistulose, usually beset 
with large soft bristles or stout hairs. Leaves orbicular, entire, with foliaceous 
stipulary sheaths. Umbels polygamous, compound, subglobose, with folia- 
ceous involucres. — Flowers jointed on the top of the pedicel. Calyx-tube 
3- or 4-grooved, limb entire. Petals 5, obovate-oblong, imbricate. Male fl. : 
stamens 5 ; style 0 ; lobes of disk flat. Female : stamens as in the male or 0 ; 
lobes of disk 3 or 4, subreniform, surrounding a cavity in the axis of the ovary ; 
styles 3 or 4, subulate, recurved. Ovary broadly turbinate, 3- or 4-celled. Fruit 
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