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Dafo. <§• Ge6s. Bomb. Fl. 

 Hohenack, No. 633.— Piini 



106. Helosciadium WallicManum, Miq 

 lella sp. 10, Herb. Ind. Or. Jf. f. ^ T. 



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Minutely pubescent or nearly glabrous. Stem 7-8 ft. (Dalzell), much divided 



upwards. Leaflets 2-3 by 1-2 in., sharply serrate ; petiolules ^-2 in. ; upper leaves 



onen much reduced, cut into setaceous linear segments. Bracts 0, rarely 1 linear ; 



rays 6-12, i-li in.; bracteoles 1-3,^ in., linear, or more often 0; pedicels 8-20, 



' ' " " Fruit ^V ^n-i subdidymous, scarcely 



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outer ^ in. male, inner „ _ ____ .^ xo - •- ;i- t 



acute; carpels | terete, inner face plane; ridges obscure, furrows 2-vittate; disc not 



prominent; carpophore entire, or very shortly 2-fid. .; 



16. P. diversifolia, DC. Prodr. iv. 122 ; cauline leaves entire 3-partite 

 or sul)-2-pinnate leaflets ovate or cordate-lanceolate pubescent, fruit ovate nar- 

 rowed upwards hispidulous papillose-rugose or finally nearly glabrous. P. pu- 

 bescens, Wall. Cat. 567. P. trifoHata, Wall. Cat. 666. P. sinica, Hancem 

 Seejn. Jaum. Bot. 1868. 113. ' Helosciadium ? trifoliatum and pubescens, Bt. 



Prodr. iv. 106 



Khasia Mts. alt 



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Throughout the Himalaya, alt. 4-10,000 ft., very common. 

 5-6000 ft., common. — Distbib. China. , 



Villous, subtomentose, or scarcely pubescent. Stem 2-5 ft., corymbose upwards. 

 Radical and lower cauliue leaves often round-ovate ; cauline often with 3-5-leanets, 

 or twice 3-partite or sub-2-pinnate ; segments of the uppermost narrower, occasion- 

 ally almost linear ; leaflets usually 1-3 by J-1 in., serrate, sometimes laciniate or 

 fiubpinnatifid. * Bracts 0, or 1-2, \~\ in., linear; rays 6-16, J-U in., sometimes 

 villous, neyer quite glabrous; bracteoles 8-3, ^ in., or.O; pedicels ^"^^» e^^U'' 

 all fruiting. Tetals emarginate, white greenish or lurid. Fruit ^-^ in., ^^\^^ { 

 compressed, ridges never prominent sometimes quite obscure, furrows 2-3-vittae» 

 disc iiot prominent; carpels J-terete, scarcely subpentagonal, dorsally suhcom- 

 pressed, inner face plane. — A common and variable plant; the north-west examp ^ 

 frequently have the peduncles rays and fruits very villous and the leaves ^^^^^\ 

 above. The Khasian have deeply cordate leaflets and papillose-rugose ^™^*'V | 



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Var. 2 



THonotca Dalz, differs only by the minute fruits 



glabrous, fruit shining yei- 



— Sikkim, alt 9-10,000 ft. — Eays of the umbel pubescent 



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clavate upwards, disc yellow-brown. Pimpinella sp. 5 Herb. Ind. 



Kashmir and Kistwar, alt. 7000-8000 ft., Thomson.— 'Evoh-eihlj a new species 



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17. P. Stracheyi, C. B. aarke ; leaves simple and 3-partite ^ 

 ovate pubescent, fruit oblong narrowed at Tx)th ends, style-bases cylmdnc aj 

 conical.— Pimpinella sp. 3, JHeyb. Ind, Or. H. f. 8f T. 



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Generally 

 a^ the Kumaon example's of P. diversifolia generally are. Fruit , 

 ridges slender, furrows 2-vittate. Young ovary villous. Fruit 

 cent shining yellow-brown.— Nearly allied to No. 22, P. ccesj^tosa 



Ktjmaon; Dhauli Eiver, Samangentha, alt. 7500 ft., Strachey # V^^^ ^^^^ 

 Generally resembling P. diversifolia on a small scale ; stems 6-^16 in., 6^®^'^ gte, 



a, Kurz in J<mm. As. Soc. 1872, pt. «• 309, » 

 mate or 2-3-partite leaflets ovate acute serra 

 steathing the rays, ovary minutely pubescent.,. 



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