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Lxx. UMBELLiFER^. (C. B. Clarke.) [Ti 



ridges 0, or like the primary ; vittse 1-2 between each primary ridge j carpophore 

 entire 2-fid or 2-partite. Seed suhpentagonal, lunate, dorsally subcompressed, 

 concave on the inner face. — Distkib. Species 10, Himalayan or Central Asiatic, 

 and 1 Abyssinian. ; 



SuBGEN. ZSnneazygron. Fruit truncate; calyx-margin spongy, patent ; 

 ridges of the carpels 9, equal, hollow, obtuse. 



7^^ 1. T. novem-jugrum, C -B. Clarke; radical leaves pinnate, pinnse orbi- 

 cular crenate. — Trachydium sp. 5, Hm-b, Ind. Or. Jf.f, ^ T. 



SiKxiM, alt, 12,000-15,000 ft. ; Lama Kangra, Tungu, and Yeumtong; J. D. H: 

 Stem 0-2 in., grooved, thick, hollow. Radical leaves 3 in.; pinnae 7, | in. diam., 

 xeticulate-nerved. Bracts like reduced leaves with narrower pinnae ; bracteoles 

 linear-obovate, toothed lobed or subpinnatifid. Uinbels often subsessile ; rays 2-3 m., 

 thick, often hollow ; rays of the umbellule often 15-20. Petals lurid green. Styles 

 very small. Fruit -^xo ^^•> ovoid, subquadrate, somewhat cordate at the base, slightly 

 narrowed close under the calyx-margin which is wider than the summit of the fruit; 

 Btyle bases depressed, inconspicuous. Carpels semi-terete ; primary and secondary 

 ridges cellular, hollow, almost covering the carpel, smooth ; vittae about 8 (excluding 

 those on the commissure); carpophore 2-partite. Seed ^-terete, dorsally subcom- 

 pressed, slightly grooved on the inner face. 



StrBGE]f. Pentazygron. Fruit narrowed upwards or truncate; calyx- 

 margin not prominent; ridges of the carpel 5, simple inflated rugose or 



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■ 3. T. aoylei, Lindl. in Boyle III. 232 ; radical leaves 2- sub-3-pmmte 

 ultimate segments lanceolate-linear, ridees tubercled. Dene, in Jacq. Voy. Sot. 



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West Tibet; Falconer, Noeth-west Himalaya; Lance-, Lanjar, alt. 17,500ft., 

 Strachey % Winterbottom. Kashmir; alt. 11,000-14,000 ft.; in many places, 

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Stem 0-2 in., thick, grooved, often hollow. Eadical leaves 3 in. (including petiole), 

 oblong-laaceolate, JlTnbel solitary, sessile, with some of the rays (peduncles of single 

 umbels?) asrain umbelled: bracts leaf -like ! hraf'tftolfts 6-10. l-2-T)innate, with Ian-, 



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segments, often white-membranous on the ma 

 owed upwards ; primary ridges inflated, spongy, 



tissue, nearly covering the carpel, glistening when very young, tnen rugulose, lax, 

 finally tubercled ; vittse usually 2 between the primary ridges. Seed ^-terete, aor- 

 sally subcompressed, subpentagonal. 



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3. T. dlssectum, C. B. Clarke) radical leaves 2-pinnate, secondary 

 pinnae pinnatifid glabrous ulthnate segments small linear acute, fruit small oyoia 

 truncate, ridges narrow not rugose. — Oortia, sp. 3, Herb. Ind. Or. H.fcfl* 



Sikkim; Tungu, alt. 13,000-14,000 ft. J. D, H. . ,..j 



Stem 0-7 in., not thickened. Peduncles 1-4 in. ; bracts linear-oblong, pmnatmu, 

 segmeiits lanceolate-linear acute; bracteoles pinnate with narrow acute »^^^}A 

 primary rays ^-IJ in. 8tyle-h&.SG8 prominent in the young fruit. Frutt ^ ^ 

 slightly narrowed upwards; pericarp thin, slightly inflated; ridges hpH^?; °^j 2' 

 narrower than in the preceding species, furrows nearly covering the fruit, vittae^ - 

 •in each furrow. Carpophore slender, 2.partite. Seed lunate, dorsally compres 





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