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nent, furrows usually 3-vittate. 



above, cauline leaves subacute. ^„ ^^.^.^^ 



refemng the South Indian species to B, falcatum. This Ceylon plant differs from 

 tne ilimalayan B. falcatum not only in the shortened fruit but in the invariable pre- 

 sence of 4-5 bracts. ^ 



Ceylon. — 5i!f^7;i usually simple, erect, laxly corymbose 

 It is the existence of this var. that has led to the 



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,. ^v S- dlstlchophyllum, W. ^ A. Prodr. 370 ; lower cauline leaves 

 oistichous bases closely imbricate sheathing, upper linear broadest at the base, 

 fruit elliptic, ridges distinct, fun-ows generally 1-vittate. Wight Ic, t. 1006. 



-; NiLGHiRi Mts., alt. 7000 ft. ; Wight, &c. 



Ik- u ^'^ ^-14: in., slender, erect; otherwise closely resembling B. mucronatum from 

 'ffmch it differs chiefly in the very small fruits (J. in.). ' The lower distichous leaves 

 are in the typical ' " ' - ^'- ' 





-ples very closely packed, 12-16 in the space of 1 in.; but 

 "^nen these are absent it is difficult to distinguish from small examples oi B. mucro- 



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long'icauley Wall, Cat. 557 ; lower cauline leaves linear or lan- 

 ceolate acute upper often wider at the base, bracteoles 6-8 elliptic-acuminate 

 loliaceous longer than the flowering umbellule, fruit oblong, ridges subalate, 



Arrows 3-vittate. DC. Prod?\ iv. 131. B. rupestre, Edaw. in Trans. Linn. 

 «oc. XX. 62. 



, ^Himalaya, alt, 8-13,000 ft. ; from Kashmir to Sikkim; common. 

 ^ 'Stem 8-21 in., erect, corymbose upwards; sometimes branching from the root. 

 leaves x^ry variable ; in the Wallichian type narrow-lirear acute, the uppermost (and 

 .^ bracts) little wider, hardly broader at the base, transverse nerves not prominent; 

 in other examples upper leaves (as the bracts) ovate, acute, with very prominent 

 seconaary nerves. Bracts 1-3 ; bracteoles 5-8, very prominent, with reticulating 

 l*6rves, often longer than the fruiting umbellule; rays 3-8, 1-2^ in., somewhat stout, 

 striate, Fdah and disc usually black. Fruit ^-^ in. 



Var. 1, hiynalcnsis,- Klotzsch in Eeis. Pr. Waldera. Bot. 146, t. 51 (sp.); upper 

 eaves ovate-lanceolate base amplexicaul ovate almost cordate, bracteoles 8-10 very 



^road imbricate.— Kashmir, alt. 12,000 ft., frequent, 

 gradations with the Eastern plant. 



Connected by imperceptible 



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"gas the pedicel.— Dalhousie and Dhurmsala, alt. 8000-12,000 ft.; plentiful, 

 ^ B, Clarke. — Stems 4-8 in., sometimes erect 24 in., much divided or simple, corym- 

 ^se at the top. Upper leaves and bracts with the transverse nerves obscure, 

 ^^(icteoles smaller tlian in typical B. longicaule, less acuminate, and much less 

 J<>haceous, the transverse nerves far less prominent— The true affinity of this form 

 ^.very doubtful : it differs from B. Candollii in the cauline leaves being narrower 

 *ith obscure secondary nerves, and by having all the leaves more acute : from B. 



^"«^in the acute leaves, stout rays of the umbel, and much stronger umbellules. 



^ VAR. 3. strict a : stems 12-15 in. usuallv simple terminated by a strict umbel, br; 



12,000^ 



Sikkim 



19^ bracteoles elliptic-oblong hardly acute pendent in fruit. 



"" Lower leaves linear, upper rather 



lets 

 Jongri, alt. 



' AOOO-^13,000 ft., a B. Clarke. Stem very erect, 

 roader, all narrowed at the base. Bracts several, 



orbicul 



sometimes nearly 2 in. ; bracteoles 



"^"icular or oblong, sometimes 3 in., longer than the fruiting umbellule; rays of the 

 "'^oel stout, ascending not divaricate. Fruit longer than in any form of B. hvgicaule, 

 ^^metiaes I in. -This is almost surely allied to Var. Dal/wusieana : but it may be 

 ^OQbted wh^ether it should be attached to B. loiigicaule. Wall. 



11. B. tenue, Dm Prodr. 182; upper leaves linear-oblong subobtuse 



^cronate narrowed at the base, brae 

 ^8 of the ximhel slender, fruit ^^-i 



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553 ; DC. Frodr. iv. 128. 



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