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 / I'Stem 0-8 in. I^eaves glabrous or nearly so, ultimate segments rarely ^^ in., 

 setaceous. Umbel often sessile; bracts (in the peduncled umbels) many large 2- 

 pinhate; rays often pubescent, yery unequal, sometimes 8-12 in. Fruit ^ in.; 

 carpels elliptic, slightly cordate at base ; 3-dorsal ridges slightly equally winged, 

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styles of the fertile flowers very long^ fruit commissure 2-vittate. 



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Sikkm; alt. 13,000-18,000 ft., Donkiah, Jongri, &c., /. D. if.; Yakia, alt. 16,000 

 ft., C. B. Clarke; Phalloot, 5. Kurz, ' y 



Stemless, with the fruit packed in dense masses over the crown, and a few long 

 umbel-rays often added. Leaves glabrous or minutely pubescent, ultimate ^^^? 

 ^-^ in., linear. Rays usually pubescent ; bracteoles ^-f in^ pedicels of the fruit 

 ^1 in., often ultimately thickened; umbellules generally unisexual, males with long 

 stamens and obsolete styles. Fruit ^ by | in., depressed-circular, base cordate ; 3 aorsa 

 ridges slightly equally elevated, or the dorsal slightly winged,J^he intermediate nearly 

 as broad as the lateral : furrows all 1 -Tittate, vittee ratheiT large. Seed 4-5 times as 

 broad as thick.— The variation in the wings of the fruit of this species may be seen 

 in one umbellule. But the great difference in the ultimate segments of the 1®^^^^^ 

 only seen in different plants, and may indicate two species: in one they are ^-l^^^^ i* 

 in , in the other about | in., and much more remote. 



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Perennial or biennial herbs^ glabrous or nearly so. 



ultimate pinnae ovate, pinnatitid or multifid, setaceous. * , 



rays many; bracts many, or few, often pinnatifid or compound, frequent y 

 white-margined ; bracteoles many, broad, more or less white-margined, enti 

 "^ - - - -- - Petals obovate, emamnate. 



toothed or pinnatifid. Calyx-teeth small, or 0. 



white or dark purple. Fi-uit elliptic or oblong, terete or ^*^^®r^y /^i^ Jal 

 pressed ; epicarp often lax ; commissure broad ; primary ridges winged, late 

 narrower broader than the others ; furrows 1-vittate, or the lateral 2-vittate, 

 Tittse many; carpophore 2-partite. Seed dorsally compressed, 2-3 ^^?^^2;ies 

 broad as thick, inner face grooved concave or nearly plane. — Distkib. opec 

 16 : Asiatic and Russian. 



1. p. Govanlanum, Benth. in Gen. PI. I 915; leaves po"^*^,.?^.* 

 J-1^ in. toothed or pinnatifid, bracteoles obovate toothed or subpmnatina 

 the apex, fruit ^ in. lateral ridges narrowest, Ligusticum Govanianum, n ■ 

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Stem 1 foot or less, thick, hollow. Leaves 4-8 in., oblong, pinnse ^ten cn^^j^^ 

 never finely cut, rarely deeply pinnatifid. Bracts 1-3 in., of an ^¥^"2 ^icels 

 white-margined sheath and divided often 2-pinnatifid limb; rays ^"^..^^Vi-^goidor 

 very many, short ; nmbellule capitate embraced by the bracteoles. Fruit ®^^P .^^^e. 

 ,8ubqnadrate ; epicarp very lax, glistening, reticulate, ridges hollow, furrows i- ^ 

 Seed distinctly grooved on the inner face. 



2. P. sikkimense, C. B. aarke) leaves pinnate rarely 2-pirinafe P^^^ 

 1-2 in. toothed or pinnatifid, bracteoles obovate toothed or subpinnatma 

 apexj fruit | in. equally 5-ridged hardly winged, epicarp not loose. 



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