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TROCHISGANTHES .

Koch.Umb.p.io3.fig.g5.,et Syn.Fl.Genn. et Helv.i.p. a,of. De Cand. Prodr. 4* P- i54-Smyrnii spec. Ali. FI. Ped. a. p. ai.

Ligustici spec. Vili. Dauph. a. p. 608 .

Umbella composita , pauciradiata , patens. Involu-crum nullum, aut monopbyllum , lineare , v%llanceolato-lineare , umbella brevius . Umbellulapauci flora;, patentes , floribus internis plerisquesterilibus . Involucella mono-diphylla , lanceola-to-linearia, umbellula breviora. Margo calycina-lis liber e lacinulis quinque, exiguis , lanceola-to-linearibus , incurvulis . Petala aequalia, obcor-data,longe unguiculata,ligula apicillari inflexa.Stamina corolla breviora, antheris subrotundis .Receptaculum floris latum, convexulum, ora re-panda. Stili in anthesi brevissimi, erecti, in fru-ctu quoque breves, stilopodium conicum, vix ele-vatum subaquantes, divaricati, aut recurvati. Sti-gmata capiteilata. Diachenium ovato-oblongum ,e latere commissurali paulo compressum , minu-te granulatum , utrinque quinquecostatum, co-stis squalibus , acutis , alaformibus , carina sca-bridis , lateralibus marginalibus . Paries pericar-picus adhaerens semini. Valleculae tri-quadrivitta-tae . Facies commissuralis sex-oetovittata . Semensubsemiteres . Carpophorum tenue, filiforme , de-mum bipartitum , liberum .

Habitus. Planta perennis. Caulis procerus, gracilis,erectus, striatus, superne subnudus, ramosissimus,ramis brevibus , alternis , oppositis , verticillatis-que . Folia ima subtriternata , foliolis grandibus ,ovato-oblongis , acuminatis , serratis , subinde bi--trilobatis ; reliqua vaginae subaphyll». Petala al-bo-viridula.

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1. Trochiscanthes nodiflorus *

Flor. Ital. T. III