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 ary pinnsB toothed or incised, pedicels slender, fniit terete. Reutera acuminata; 

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'■ ITrom Kashmir to Kumaon, alt, 4-8000 ft., frequent. 

 'i^ Glabrous, or the leaves obscurely pubescent. Stem 3-4 ft., corymbose upwards. 

 Secondary j)i»7>£S 1-2 in. Bracts 1-5, ^~\ in., linear; rays 5-10, 1-3 in. ;^ bracteoles 

 3-5, J in., linear ; pedicels J-J in. Petals yellowish-green or nearly ^rhite. Frmt 

 nearly globose, laterally compressed, yellowish-brown, subviscid; carpels terete, 

 ridges slender, furrows 2-3-vittate ; disc small.— Easily recognised by the long slender 

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8. P. bella, C. B. aarke ; leaves all similarly cut 2-pinnate secondary^ 

 pinnae pinnatifid ultimate segments oblong entire mucronate, fruit narrowly* 

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Sikktm; alt. 10,000-12,000 ft., Thoinsoii, C,B, Clarke, K Gamble; on the water- 



• shed between Sikkim and Nipal, " " ^^'"' ' * 



Glabrous. Rootstock long, fusiform. Stem 1-3 ft., corymbose upwards. Leaves 



large, orate, pinnae and pinnules opposite, often white beneath. Bracts 0, or 1 linear, 



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Calyx-margin obsolete. Petals ovate-lanceolate, plane. JMsc large, coniwii. 

 Carpophore 2-partite. Fruit ^ in, ; carpels terete, subpentagonal, inner face hardly 

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9. P. Kookeri, G B, Clarke:, leaves pinnate sub-2-pinnate segmente 

 of the lower leaves oblong of the upper linear, fruit ovate as long as broad. 

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SiKKiM. Northern valleys, Samdong and Lachen, alt. 8-11,000 ft., J, B. H. 



\Boot tuberous.;; Stem 1-2 ft., slender, sparingly leafy, remotely 

 suTjvirgate. Lower leaves cut and whitened beneath as in P. oelia, seg- 



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.gmonts. Umbels subracemose 



tnd slender ; bracts and bracteoles < 

 _ _ '. Petals verv small. oft.An elonffati 



exceeding their own 



upwards, rays few and slender ; bracts and bracteoles 0, or inconspicuous ; V^^^\ 

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on the same plants being emarginate with a short inflexed point). Fruity _ 

 |lobose, narrowed at the apex, laterally subcompressed,yeUow-brown ; ridges obscure ^ 

 rarrows 2-3-vittate; disc evanescent ; carpophore slender, 2-partite. - J^ 



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10. p. tenera, Benth. in Gen. PI. i. 894 ; lower cauline leaves Pi"'^*^_ 

 pinnae ovate ultimate segments of the upper small, fruit oTate-oUong co 

 spicuously narrowed upwards. Sison ? tener, Wall. Cat. 593. Helo^iaxlium 

 tenerum, DC. Proclr. iv, 105. Acronema tenerum, Hdgtv. in Trans. Lmn. oo . 

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Himalaya, alt. 8-15,000 ft.: from Gurwhal to Sikkim; Wallich, Falconer, 

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Root tuberous (not annual as Eunth. 1. c). Stem 6-8, rarely 12 in. *--",- ^p 

 excessively elongate as in P. Hookeri, Furrows 2-3-vittate.— Closely resemDni^.^ • 

 Hookeri but smaller, the ultimate segments of the upper leaves not exceeding t 

 the carpophore undivided thick ; fruit ^ in., elongated, narrower upwards, ^^^j^jy 



Tab. dissecta ; leaves 2-3-pinnate ultimate segments scarcely ^ in. ovate a 

 3-lobod or longer linear subobtuse.— With the type. 



;,11, P. acronemaefolia, C,B, C7ar;ta ; leaves 2-3-pinnate 



-9^„6.?ts ovate acutely 34obed or longer linear subobtuse, peduncles 

 stem 2-G in. stout^ bracts 1-5 | in. linear. 



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