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Seed nearly terete. — The Kashmir and Chumba examples are much more slender 

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. jucundum, Kurz in Seem. Joutm. BoL 1867, 240; lower cauHue 

 leaves short-petioled obovate upper ovate amplexicaul deeplv cordate, bracteoles 

 4-6 oblong acute usually shorter than the umbellule, fruit elliptic-oblong, 

 ridges prominent; furrows 3-vittate. B. sachinalense, F, Schfnidt Reis. Amur- 

 hndey 135. B. heterophyllum, Jacguem, 7)iss. (not of Link), 



Kashmir; Budrawur, alt. 7000 ft., C. B, Clarie. Lahul; Jaeschke 



Amurland. 



Stems 1-2 ft., erect from a decumbent base, corymbose with long branches. Loirer 

 cauline leaves 1-1^ in., orbicular, petiole scarcely ^ in. ; upper 1-2 in., orbicular or 

 ovate-oblong, mucronate, not peltate; primary nerves 10-20, palmate; transverse 

 nerves numerous, distinct, oblique, reticulating. Bract 1, J-| in., ovate, foliaceous, 

 often amplexicaul or cordate, occasionally ; bracteoles 4-5, usually ^ in., often ; 

 rays 5-8, some^what stout, angular ; pedicels about half as long as the carpels. 

 Carpels nearly as in B, CandolUi, but rather longer, ^ in, — B. aureum, Fisck., diflfers 

 m the much larger bracteoles, and the often perfoliate upper leaves. 



Var. cachemirica ; lower cauline leaves linear-oblong or linear, upper ovate- 

 lanceolate, ridges subalate.— Kashmir, alt. 7500-10,000 ft., C. B, Clarke; common. 

 Lover cauline leaves 5 by § in. Bracts often 0; bracteoles of 1-4 oblong or linear 

 frequently 0. — The extreme forms of this with tall simple stem corymbose near the 

 summit, narrow leaves, and umbels nearly without bracts or bracteoles appear very 

 ^stinct from B. iuaundum. but there are numerous intermediate forms. 



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. 5. B. Thomsonl, C. B. Clarke -j cauline leaves linear upper lanceolate 

 05* ovate cordate-amplexicaul, bracteoles 5-9 lanceolate acuminate or linear, 

 ^rpels glaucous &-winged, furrows 4-3-vittate. I 



- ■ Kashmir ;*Sonamurg, alt. 9250 ft, C. B. Clarke, North-west Himalaya, alt. 

 7000-9000 ft., T. Thomson. 



:I Erect, 2-3 ft., corymbose. Upper cauline leaves 2-4 in., lanceolate, acuminate, 

 ^Ppermost sometimes ovate, transverse reticulating nerves obscure. Bracts usually 

 "sometimes 1-2 lanceolate: rays of the umbel 6-10, 1-2^ in. ; bracteoles usually 

 ?* long as the flowering umbellules, caudate ;' rays of the umbellule often 20, about 

 ^If as long as the mericarp. Fruit ^ in., oblong, subquadrate ; carpels terete, wings 

 ^ore than half as broad as the nucleus ; carpophore very thin, 2 -partite.— This has 

 ^een supposed to be allied to B, diver sifolium ; but the foliage seems nearer that of 

 ^jucundum, var, ca£he7nirica ; it should be compRvedvrith B. polypht/llum, LcdeL; 

 ■^0255. FL Orient, ii. 851, of which no authentic example is at Kew. 



, 6. B. dlverslfolium, Hochd PL Ban. 68, t. 28, fig. 67; upper cauline 

 ^aves lanceolate caudate base ovate amplexicaul scarcely cordate, bracteoles 

 J:^, narrow-lanceolate acuminate shorter than the fruiting umbellules, ridges 

 distinct, furrows 5?-viffn+^ VAnh. Ic. PI. Germ. t. 1885. 



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"^1.0000-12,000 ft., C B Clarice.— QisTKiv. West Asia. South-East Europe, 

 '^ lower cauline leaves linear, hardly broader upwards ; middle cauline completelj 

 f^Iexicaul. Brads or 1, small, lanceolate: rays of the umbel 8-14; peJicels 

 O m. Fruit I in. rfaucous, in outline oblong ; disc brown, subpromment.— 

 J^mted with B.falcatum,Unn. both by Keichenbach I.e. and in Boiss. Fl. Orient. 

 "• 850 : it differs in the completely amplexicaul, usually inflated, base of the cauline 

 «aves, the lower leaves linear not at all obovate, the fruits glaucous much more 

 wrongly ribbed. Wliether regarded as a species or variety, India produces the plant 



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