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Smells like meadow-sweet. Common, but not plentiful, in 
dampish places.—Deasy § Pike. 
Pleurospermum Hookeri, C. B. Clarke, in Mook. f. Fl. Brit. 
Ind. ii. p. 705. 
Shelshel and Rakas Tal, 15,500 ft., Strachey 5 Winterbottom. 
Bracts and flowers white. 
Pleurospermum Hookeri, C. B. Clarke, var. Thomsoni, C. B. 
Clarke, loc. cit.; Kew Bull. 1896, p. 211. 
Goring valley, 90° 25', 30° 12', about 16,500 ft., Littledale. 
Pleurospermum stellatum, Benth. eax C. B. Clarke, in Hook. f. 
Fl. Brit. Ind. ii. p. 704, var. Lindleyanum, C. B. Clarke, loe. cit. 
p- 705; Journ. Linn. Soc., Bot. xxx. (1894) p. 113. 
Sandy soil in broad valley, 16,400 ft., Thorold. Bracts and 
flowers white. 
Very young specimens of another species of Pleurospermum 
were gathered by the Littledales. 
Peucedanum (§Cervaria) Malcolmii, Hemsl. ect H. H. W. 
Pearson. 
Species habitu P. Hystriei, Bunge, altaice simillima, a qua 
fructus forma, vittarum numero, foliorum basibus petiolisque 
persistentibus tenuioribus precipue differt. 
Herba pumila, perennis, pubescens, foliorum basibus petiolisque 
persistentibus, circiter 6 poll. alta. Folia petiolata, bipinnati- 
secta, glanduloso-pubescentia, circiter 8 poll. longa, jugis primariis 
distantibus, pinnulis trifidis vel nonnunquam pinnatifidis ; seg- 
menta ultima lineari-ovata, acuta, crassiuscula, puberula, ? lin. 
longa, $ lin, lata; vagine valde nervate, intus glabre, extus 
minute pubescentes vel glabrescentes, 7-1 poll. longe. Umbelle 
composite radiis primariis 6-12 ; involucri involucellique bractex 
pauee, lineari-lanceolati, integra vel basi rarissime irregulariter 
lobate, 3- vel 1-nervate, pubescentes, 13-33 lin. longe. Flores 
pedicellis brevibus pilosis suffulti. Calycis dentes dense pubes- 
centes, deltoidei, }—3 lin. longi. Pedala pallide lutea, glabra; 
anterius obreniforme, 2 lin. latum; lateralia posterioraque 
subrotunda, } lin. diametro. Fructus ellipticus vel fere 
obovatus, apice leviter emarginatus, complanatus, puberulus, 
jugis dorsalibus vix elevatis, lateralibus contiguis dilatatis 
marginem alatem formantibus, 24 lin. longus, 13-2 Jin. latus ; 
vitte ad valleculas solitarie vel rarissime irregulariter 2-nx, 
