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folium ; upper reduced ; primary pinnse sometimes sessile on the sheath. Bracts few, 

 uemally inconspicuous; bracteoles 8-12, ^-li in., usually exceeding the umbellule. 

 Calyx-teeth long linear lanceolate. Fruit subquadrate, longer than broad, 3 dor- 

 sal ridges approximate. Seed plane on the inner face, or slightly concave. — The 

 Herbarium specimens are largely mixed with fruits of S. elatum : and Edgeworth'g 

 descriptions of the fruit and bracteoles seem taken from these : the true plant has 

 very large compound bracteoles, and the above description of the fruit is of ripe ones 

 attached to unmistakable leaves. Mr. Bentham has referred it to Ligusiicum, from 

 the leaves approaching the Indian Ligustimriis and the obsolete vittac; but the com- 

 pound bracteoles and long calyx-teeth refer it to Selinum, 



5. S. papyraceunii C, B. Clarke] tertiary pinnse | in. ovate serrate 6t 

 aaK-pinnatifid into lanceolate segments, fruit ^ in. much dorsally compressed, 

 lateral win^s papery wider than the 3 dorsal, dorsal furrows 1-vittate lateral 

 dually 2"Vittate, seed in horizontal section elliptic twice as broad as thick. 



Prom Baxtisthan and Kashmib to Sikkim, alt. 8000-12,000 ft. ; frequent. 



Eesembling S, tenuifolium so closely that it is difficult to separate until 

 the fruit is nearly ripe: the leaves are usually less compound, the rays less 

 villous, the bracteoles not white-margined. Fruit often longer than the umbellule, 

 subquadrate, rather IcJhger than broad, very strongly compressed; lateral ridges, 

 quite unlike the white corky wings of the other Indian Selinums : 3 dorsal ridges 

 '''ery close together, usually very small, tut in some examples the intermediate ridgee 

 are developed, nearly as wide as the lateral, the dorsal remaining minute. Seed very 

 narrow compared with the breadth of the carpel, commissural vittae close to the 

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iobes linear-oblong acute, bracts 0, bracteoles few, flowers yellowish, fruit nearly 

 orbicular narrowly margined, furrows 1-vittate, vittse very distinct, commissural pair 

 <^lo8e to the carpophore. Peucedanum dissectum, DC. Prodr. iv. 178.— Nipai.; 

 Gossain Than, Wallich. Habit oi Mtlmm,—T\\Q sheet in the Wallichian Herbarium 

 contains.— 1, a good specimen in flower having 4-8 bracts and prominent bracteoles; 

 ^' a young flowering specimen, exinvolucrate ; 3, a detached umbel in fruit DCs 

 description, copied above, appears made up from 2 and 3, excluding 1 ; 1 certainly 

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 •^otstock with numerous unequal rays: bracts rays and bracteoles -"--^ 



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 "'len pinnate or 2-pinnate. Calyx-teeth prominent, sub-linear. Pdds oboyate, 

 eiaarginate, wMte or purplish. FruU orbicular or elliptic, much dorsally com- 

 P^essed ; lateral ridges winf?ed, dorsal and intermediate approximated much 

 ?arrower sometimes hardly winged ; dorsal yittae solitary, lateral solitary or 

 '^ pairs ; carpophore 2-partite. Seed mucli dorsally compressed, inner face 



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This genus only differs from the Indian species of Sdinum in the elongate 

 JPequal rays of the umbel ; C Undleyi differs fro 

 pinnate bracteoles, C. Hookeri, by being stemless. 



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