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elata, ^gw. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xx. 55. ? Levisticum arfrutum. Lindl. )n 

 Moyle m. 232. 



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North-west Himalaja; Simla, alt. 7000-8000 ft., Edgeworth. Lahtjl; Jacschkc. 

 .- titem 2-3 ft. Lower haves 12 by 8 in., secondary pinnse distant; upper pinnate 

 or reduced to sheaths. Bracts 1-4, \ in., linear, or 0; rays 12-40, 1-1 J in.; 

 bracteoles 6-12, \ in., linear; pedicels y^r^ many. Fruit f-^ in., nearly as in 

 I L, marginatum, but the carpels are longer than broad; dorsal furrows 2-3-vittate, 

 lateral 3-Tittate, commissure 6-8-vittate. Seed 4-6 times as broad as thick, inner 

 lace plane. — Edgeworth's description is most accurate; the word bivittatis in the 

 specific character being a misprint for trivittatis. He suggests that it 

 imperfectly described Levisticum arguium, Lindl. 



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Perennial, branched herbs. Leaves pinnately compound. Umbels com- 

 pound ; rays numerous ; bracts many, linear or pinnatifid^ or few, small, or ; 

 OTacteolea numerous, linear, serrate or pinnatifid, sometimes few small. 

 ^(dyx-teeth obsolete, or lanceolate or linear. Petals obovate, emarginate, 

 "w^hite or yellowish-green. Fi^it ovoid or subquadrate, commissure broad, 

 oiore or less dorsaUy compressed or complanate ; lateral primary ridges 

 Winged, corky or papery, dorsal and intermediate ridges approximate, equal or 

 ^nequal, as wide as the lateral or not, sometimes excurrent, not wing^ ; dorsal 

 fiuTOws 1-vittate (or rarely 1 large deep-seated 2 small lateral superficial) or 0, 

 lateral furrows 1-4 vittate ; carpophore slender, 2-partite ; style-bases not pro- 

 niinent in fruit. Seed subterete, or more or less dorsally compressed, inner 

 face plane or slightly concave, not grooved. — Distrib. Species 36, chiefly north 

 temperate, with a South African and Andean. 



: The Indian species are uniform in habit, having very compound leaves, large 

 iinibels with prominent involucres, three approximated ridges excurrent on the back 

 01 each carpel, and the seed not grooved on the inner face. Ligtcsticum differs by 

 having the dorsal furrows 3-vittate. 8, tenuifolium has the three dorsal ridges not 

 excurrent, often subobsolete, and is therefore hardly different from Atigelica. Pim- 

 P^lla sikki?nensis (p. 685) was referred to Selinum by Bentham. 



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leaves | in. narrowly oblong-lanceolate, fruit little 

 subequally winged, vittse all solita^, seed abou 



segments 



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Laserpitium striatum. Wall Cat. 583 (rwt Ligusticum striatum, DC. Prodr. 

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NiPAT ; Wallich. Khasia Mts. ; alt. 3500-6000 ft., abundant. 

 Glabrous or npnrlv sn • 1.-4 ft., freauentlv with manv withered fibres at the base. 

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rays glabrous or obscurely pubea- 



Leaves 4-8 in,, ovate, 3-4-p3nnate, uppermost sheath often extending the whole length 

 ^' the petiole. Bracts 4--6, \-i in., linear: 



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not divided. Calyx-teeth linear, oblong, twice as long as broad. FruU ^-^ in., 

 lateral furrows 1-vittate, vittae twice as wide as those in the dorsal; commis- 

 *^^1 vittae 2, wide apart. Seed obscurely 2-grooved on the inner face.— Easily 

 recognised by the little-compressed fruits and seeds. All the specimens are Khasian, 

 except Wallich's, which have tHe ultimate segments of the leaves less narrowly cut, 

 showing the secondary nerves impressed: the fruit is exactly as in the Khasian 

 5^amples. lu Ligusticum striatum, DC. Prodr. iv. 158, the furrows are multi -vittate. 

 ■Gotham, I.e., assuming that DC. possessed the true 8, striatum, points out that he 

 J^as mistaken on this point. But DC. also says that his Ligiuticum e/^/.T/««, hnH 



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