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Fruit much like S, indicum but smaller and quite glabrous; ridges snbequal.— 

 Mr. Bentham did not possess -well-ripened fruit when he referred this species to 

 Discopleura, Hance referred the Chinese examples doubtfully to Cnidium Monnien, 

 Cuss, ; DC. Prodr. iv. 152; to which Seseli daucifolium bears a general resemblance; 

 biit it is more leafy upwards with short peduncles, and the fruit is much smaller 

 and not dorsally compressed. 



A. S. trilobum, Benth. in Gen. PI. i. 901; lower leaves 2-pinnate or 

 twice 3-partite, secondary pinnse ovate lobed petioluled villous or tomentose 

 beneath, calvx-teeth subulate minute deciduous, fruit ovate acute villous. Sca- 



phespermum trilobum, Edgw. in Tram. Linn. Soc. xx, 58, 



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Korth-West Himalaya; Nrn, alt. 8000-10,000 ft., Edgeworth. 

 coner. Kttmaon ; Millem, alt, 11,000 ft., Strachey ^ Winterbottom 



Stem 8-24 in., villona and lit.tlft Iftafv iinwards. /^^/7.i;fi.5 minute' 



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secondaiy pinnae |-| in., crenate-serrate or irregularly lobed. Bracts 3-5, sj^-.j 

 rays 5-10. 1-2 in.; bracteoles 5-8, ^-^ in., linear; pedicels 10-20, ^-i in- ^^"^ 

 ^J in,, but little longer than broad; carpels convexo-concave, much dorsally com- 

 pressed ; ridges strongly marked, subequal, vittae prominent; carpophore deeply 

 2-fid, Seed excavated on the inner face, differing thus from all other species ot 

 Seseli. — Perhaps a Pycnocycla. ' 



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Perennial herbs ; branches rush-like, few-leaved. Leaves pinnately dissected, 

 ultimate segments narrow. Rays of the umbels very short ; bracts and bracteol^ 

 maaty, small ; umbellules containins: one central sessile fertile flower, ana 



ultimate segments narrow. Eays 



maaty, small; umbellules conta ^ __. ,_. 



several pedicelled males. Calyx-tube hairy; 



Uneoual. J^plnla nlv^Trfl+/* omo>.fv?T»Q+a lio?i»^ 



obovat^, emarginate, hairy. Fruit oblong-lanceolate,^ lia"7' 

 .^. — ^^^^ ^^^^^x is frequently aborted), surrounded by the inflated pedicels oi 

 the barren flowers, receptacle not (or very obscurely) enlarged ; carpophore ^j 

 carpels ^-terete, inner face deeply grooved; primary ridges filiform, minute, 

 lateral at the margin of the broad commissure ; vittse numerous, very sl®^*^^ 

 usually 1 under each primary ridge and several still more minute scatterea 

 in the endocarp. Seed lunate or with a T-shaped groove on the inner face. 



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W. and Central Asia. .i-,;*fv- . 



Feet seed is hardly a character 

 Chsrophyttum, wherem t.n 



drawn from the generic character of Pycnocycla, it will include Seseli 



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timate segments of the leaves long-linear subterete, umbels on ^^.^. ; 

 peduncles. JIie7m in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. iii. 8. P. abyssinica; Uocns :^ 



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North- West Ikbta, Boyle ; Sutledge banks, Falconer. Jtjbbulpobb ; 

 Satpura Hills, G. Thomson.— Lxbtrvb. Abyssinia. > 



iJranched from the base, 1-2 ft. ; branches terete, striate, subglaucous. 

 leaves long-petioled, pinnately dissected ; segments remote, glabrous or i 

 caxuine similar hnf oT«oii«- «.^ «u«_4.i ♦:«i«j 7T^hi>u in flower * 



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.^«.^„ ^v^iig-pcLiuiou, pinnateiy aissectea; segments remote, giauiv/^^ ^\?„ diam-i 

 cauline similar, but smaller more shortly petioled. Umbels in flower 1 1»- . 



resembling those of a " " " " ^''''^'^^' 



bracteoles similar but 

 .umbellule about 9: -n* 

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smaUer; rays A in., hairy; pedicels hairy. ^^«'f^ j^ },,, ; 



tals white, with reddish midrib, hairy, i^rwi^ * ^J.E ttro 



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