ASTRANTIEÆ

(Lat.), n. f. pl. A?s(a$s)-tra?n(tresn)-ti(ti2)’-?), A tribe of umbelliferous plants including only the genus Astrantia. [B, 170.) , ASTRAPÆA (Lat.), n. f. A“s(a's)—tra’—pe'îa."e')—a’. From dotparaios, pertaining to lightning. A genus of plants, referred by Lindley to the Sterculiaceæ,.by others to the Malvaceae, and regarded by many as a section of Dombeya, but distinguished from the latter by the se ile flowers being surrounded by an involucre of large bracts, [B, 19, 121, 170.]—A. cannabin a. A Madagascar s furnishing a material used in making cordage. [B,19.]—A. v ii. A species indigenous to Madagascar and cultivated iB Europe, having bright-red flowers borne in pendulous umbels.