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filaments dilated and connate at the base. Ovary free, globose, 
compressed, 2 -celled ; ovule solitary in each cell, ascending, with basal 
funicle ; style very short, with 2 branches which are stigmatose 
within. 
Fruit separating into 2 orbicular or hemispheric cocci which at 
length dehisce ventrally. Seeds vertical ; embryo annular ; radicle 
inferior. 
Species about 10. 
Distribution : — Tropical and South Africa, Arabia, India. 
1, Limeum indicum Stocks in Herb. Hook . ; Anders. Journ. Linn. 
Soc. V, Suppl. p. 30 ; Oliv. FI. Trop. Afr. II, 596. 
Description : — A prostrate glandular herb ; root perennial ; stems 
diffuse, much-branched, glandular-pubescent. Leaves opposite or nearly 
so, \ — | by T 3 g — J inch, broadly elliptic or suborbicular, inequilateral, 
shortly apiculate, entire, glandular-pubescent ; petioles distinct, J inch, 
long, slightly dilated at tie base. 
Flowers crowded, in axillary subsessile cymes ; pedicels short, 
glandular, bracteate at the base. Sepals T V inch long, glandular- 
pubescent, ovate, acute, with membranous margins. Petals much shorter 
than the sepals, clawed, truncate and 2-dentate at the apex. Stamens 7 
(Stocks), 6 — 7 (Anderson). 
Carpels in fruit as long as the sepals, hermispheric, dehiscing 
ventrally, the margins of the valves indexed so as to retain the seed till 
moistened. Seeds broader than long, about T l ? inch broad, concavo- 
convex, quite smooth on the back, vellowish-white. 
Flowers: — January 1863 (Oliver and Cl.), March 1878 (Perry), Dec. 
1847 (Hooker). 
Fruits: — January 1863 (Oliver and Cl.). 
Locality : — Seashore (Hook.) ; without locality (Perry, Oliver and Cl.).- 
Distribution : — Nubia, S. Arabia, Sind, Baluchistan, Punjab, Multan. 
XXIV.— UMBELLIFER4E. 
Usually herbs, rarely shrubs or trees. Leaves usually alternate, 
simple or compound, usually exstipulate ; petiole generally sheathing at 
the base. 
Flowers in simple or compound umbels, rarely in heads or whorls.. 
Calvx-tube adnate to the ovary ; teeth 5 or 0. Petals 5, epygynous, 
distinct, sometimes unequal, usually imbricate in bud. Stamens 5, 
e Pygy noi * s - Ovary inferior, 2-celled, crowned by an epygynous, 
usually 2-lobed disk ; ovule solitary in each cell, pendulous ; styles 2 y 
stigmas minute, capitate, 
