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30 • !• HANXJNCULACEJK. (Hook. f. & ThoHis.) [Cimicifuga. 



formed stamens) 1-8, small, clawed, 2-liorned at the tip. Stamens many, 

 filament slender. Carpels 1-8, many-ovuled. Fruit of many-seeded follicles. 

 Seeds compressed, testa smooth or scaly.— DisTRtB. Europe, N. Asia, 

 N, America; species about 8. 



1. C. foetida, Linn,; leaflets ovate or lanceolate serrate glabrous or 

 downy, racemes panicled. //./. & T, Fl. Ind. 59. C. frigida, Royle IlLoJ. 

 Actsea cimicifuga, L, ; DC, Frodr. i. 64. A. frigida. Wall. Cat, 4725. ^ r 



Temperate Himalaya, from Bhotan, G^r?[^'^A, to Gores and Kashmir ; alt. 7-12,000 



ft. — DiSTRiB. E. Europe, Siberia. 



Stem 3-6 ft., leafy, branched, glabrous below, tomentose above. Leaflets 2-3 in., 



pale beneath, terminal often S-Iobed. ^aceme^ rarely simple. Flowtrs small, yellowiot. 

 Fttah more or less 2-fid. Follicles 4-8, 4 '^^- long, J. ' 



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Erect, stout, leafy, perennial herbs or undershrubs, • Leaves alternate, 

 compound. Flowers large, solitary or panicled, white or red. Sepals 5, 

 herbaceous, persistent. Petals 5-10, larger than the sepals. Stainens many- 

 Carpels 1-5. girt below by a fleshy disk, many-seeded. Fruit of 1 or more 

 coriaceous few-seeded follicles, ^eecfe large, snbglubose, testa thick; albu- 

 men fleshy.— DiSTKiB. N. temp, zone ; species 3-4 ' -■ 



1. P. emodi, Wall. Cat, 4727 ; flowers usually in the axils of the upper 

 leaves long peduncled, follicles 1 rarely 2. Foyle IlL 57 ; IJook.f. in Bot 

 Mag. t. 5719. P. ofiicinalis, U.f. dc T. Ind. 60 {not of Z.). 



West Temperate Himalaya; alt. 5-10,000 ft., from Kumaon to Hazara. ''~ 



Erect, 1-2 it., glabrous. Leaven 6-12 in., otice or twice ternatisect; leaflets deCur- 

 rent, entire or incised, ultimate segments oblong or lanceolate, acute or acuminate, 

 glabrous, glaucous beneath. FlowerH^-%\ buds globose ; bracts 2-3, leafy, appressed to 

 the calyx. Sepals rounded, outer with a leafy point. Follicles ovoid, obtuse, strigos^ 

 or glabrous, — The specimens from the outer Himalaya are usually 1-carpellary, Iroffl 

 the inner 2 carpellarj. ;- 



Var. 1. KMODi proper; follicles strigose with "yellow-brown hairs. 

 Var. 2. GLABRATA ; follicles glabrous.— Very near the Siberian, F. albiflora, but roono- 

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Trees shrubs or herbs^ sometimes climbing. Leaves alternate, simple^ 



entire or toothed (pinnatipartite in J crofremo), exstipulate with sheathin^ 

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Petals 5 (rarely 3 or 4) 



lateral slits or terminal pores. Carpels 



axis; styles always distinct; ovules amphitropous, solitary or few ivud 

 ascending, or many and attached to the ventral suture. Fruit of follicles, 

 or indehiscent and subbaccate. Seeds solitary or many, arillate, testa crus- 



t^ceous, 



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