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purple-red. li^uit ovoid, narrowed at the apex, scarcely laterally compressed, 

 distinctly constricted at the commissure. Carpels grooved on the inner face, 

 eubpentagonal or subterete, dorsally subcompressed ; lateral primary ridges 

 commissural, intermediate slender but distinct ; vittae 2-3 in each furrow, not 

 large ; carpophore entire or bifid. Seed subterete, grooved on the inner face.— 

 DisTRiB. Species 2-3, Himalayan. . ,- - 



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^ Separable from Pimpinella only by the deeper groove on the inner face of the me- 

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1. V. coniifolia, DC. Prodr. iv. 243 ; ultimate segments of the leaves 

 linear, cai^pels ovate broadly grooved on the inner face. Sison ? coniifolium, 

 Wall, Cat. 691. Chserophyllum gracillimum, Klotzsch in Heis, iV. Waldein, 

 Sot. 149, t. 46. Ligusticum ? meoides^ Jacquem, Joui-n, 



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-^'Himalaya, alt. 6000-12,000 ft., 



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from Baltistan and Kashmir to Nipal, 



>; Stem 1-2 ft., ascending, divided, striate, sparingly leafy. Leaves usually 3-pin- 

 nate, ultimate segments linear or narrowly oblong-linear, acute. Peduncle 2-6 in. 

 Bract rarely exceeding ^ in., very rarely more than 1 or slightly divided ; primary 

 'ays of the umbel 6-12, |-2 in., rigid, angularly striate ; bracteoles 3-6, often as long 



as the umbellule. 



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in., disc prominent, styles short. 



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mlllefolia, ^. ^. v....,,... 



Setaceous, carpels oblong narrowly grooved on the inner face. 

 DiiUefoIium, Klotzsch in Bets, P>\ Waldein. BoL 149, t. 45 



Y Kashmir; Tragbol, alt. 11,400 ft., C. B, Clarke. ?Nipal; 

 Jongri, alt. 12,000-13,000 ft., C. B. Clarke. 



Stem 4-6 in., rarely 12 in. CauHne leaves 2-4 in., 2-5-4-pinnate, ultimate seg- 

 ments scarcely ^ in. Fruit y^-ja ^^'j oblong o^ narrow-oblong; disc prominent; 

 .styles short.— United with V. conii/olia by Bentham (fw Gen, PL i. 883), but the fruit 

 ^ very much smaller, less grooved on the inner face, and the leaves are much more 

 finely cut. 



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leaves deeply cut into small narrow-lanceolate teeth, carpels plane on the inner 



^ce, seed with a T-shaped groove on the inner face. 



,>• GuBWHAL, alt, 6500 ft., Stewart. 



;i. Bracts small or 0. Bracteoles linear, unequal, some overtopping the flowering 

 ^bellules. Fruit (not quite ripe) | in., rather larger than that of V. cofmfolia, 

 ^<%es obscure ; vittse in each furrow 3 -4, small. 



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^^ simple umbels on clustered long peduncles ; bracts several, foliaceous, lobed 

 Jinnate; bracteoles 5-10, similar, often united at the base, sometimes 

 ^te membranous on the margins, often equalling the rays. Cdyx-mttrgm 

 "wolete or prominent, entire or nearly so. Petals white or pink, eUiptic, sub- 

 ^^^, or emarginate by the greater or less inflexion of the apex. Frutt 

 ovoid or subquadrate, laterally subcomprwsed, slightly constricted at the com- 

 ^ure, smooth or -tubercled ; carpels terete ; primary ridges distinct, sometimes 

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