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_ Herbs, glabrous or pubescent. Leaves 2-8-^innate or twice 3-partite. 



Umbeh compound; bracts few or many, undivided or pinnate; bracteoles 

 several or many. Cdyx-teeth minute, lanceolate or linear, or 0. Petals 

 emarginate, white. Fruit oblong ovate or circular, not laterally compressed, 

 broadest at the commissure ; carpels ^-terete or (in S. trilohum) much dorsally 

 compressed; inner face plane or (in S. tinlohum) concave; ridges strong, 

 obtuse or subacute, lateral hardly larger than the dorsal ; vittse in each forow 

 solitary, usually prominent; carpophore 2-partite, 2-fid or entire; disc not 

 prominent on the fruit. Seed ^-terete ; in S. trilobum dorsally compressed, 

 inner face excavated. — Distrib. Species 40; in the N. temperate zone of the 

 Old World ; with 2 doubtful Australian. 



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, .!• S. sibirlcum, Benth. in Gen. PL i 901; lower leaves 2-pinnate 

 secondary pinnae large ovate toothed and pinnatifid sessile or decurrent, calyx- 

 teeth triangular minute deciduous, fruit cylindric villous. Boiss, FL Orient. 

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.West Tibet; Falconer. Kashmir; Jacquemont. Kishtwar, alt. 7000-8000 ft, 

 ThoTuson. — DisTRiB. Asia, Kussia. 



Minutely pubescent or nearly glabrous, 2-4 ft. Lover leaves often 1 ft, upper 

 oftei) pinnate; pinnae somewhat firm in texture, subspinulose, secondary 1-2 in. 

 tracts usually or 1; in the Siberian examples sometimes many; rays 15-40, 

 ^H in., pubescent; bracteoles 5-10, ^ in. lanceolate; pedicels 10-25, ^ in. 

 ^^^^S fruit ^ in., densely villous, in age less so; carpels ^-terete, dorsally com- 

 pressed, inner face plane; epicarp somewhat thickened, ridges strong, subequal, 

 Tittse large; carpophore slender, 2-partite, Seed plane on the inner face. 



. 2. S. Indicum, IF. ^ A. Prodn 371 ; lower leaves 2-pinnate secondary 



Sinnae ovate lobed pubescent, calyx-teeth 0, fruit subglobose ridges thick. Cni- 

 iMi difiusum, DC. Pi-odr.ir. 153; Wight Ic. t. 669. Athamantha diffusa, 

 Wall Cat. 670. Ligusticum indicum. Wall. Cat. 7215. L. diffusum, Poxb. 

 Sort. Beng. 21, Fl hid. ii. 92. 



Rains of India ; from the foot of the Siwatiks to Assam and Coeobiandbl; fre- 



^tin Central Bengal. 



Annual, erect or diffuse, 4-12 in., often much branched. Leaves all similarly cut, 

 ^per without linear segments. Bra4)ts 4-5, \ in., narrowly lanceolate, caudate, 

 pubescent ; rays 8-16, \-\ in. ; bracteoles like the bracts but rather smaller; pedicels 

 ^16» k in. Flowers white or pinkish. Fruit jVY^ in. (in Roxburgh's drawing 

 <»pied in Wight Ic, t. 569) glabrous; in Wall Cat. 7215, and W. # A, Prodr, 371, 

 ^^ry hirsute (and hardly half as large) ; hairs often clubbed or substellate at the 

 JP^x ; carpels ^-terete; vittae distinct ; carpophore entire.— There are examples with 

 ^t intermediate between the two extreme types above described. 



3. S, dauclfolium, C. JB. aarke; leaves 2-3-pmnate ultimate seg- 

 '•jents Imear or narrowly lanceolate, bracta many often divided, fruit globose 

 ?Jabrou3. Ammi daucifolium, WaU. Cat. 7209.— Discopleura sp., Benth. in 

 9^- PI. I 907. 



- East Bkngal ; from Bhotan and Assam to Dacca and Chittagono ; Wallich, &c. 



•DiSTEiB. China. 



, Annual, erect, 8-16 in., glabrous or nearlv so, very leafy upwards. Margin of the 

 *^<ivq minutely serrulate. Peduncles often leaf-opposed, short, stout; bracts |-J in., 

 ^ometimeg pinnate- rays 8-16, usually shorter than the bracts; bracteoles 6-12, 

 * in., linear; pedicels 10-25, ^-^ in. Calyx-teeth 0. Petals white or pinkisL 



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