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serrated somewhat closely and regularly. Bracts 5-8, 1-1| in., narrowly-lanceolate, 

 ■ entire, white-margined; rays 10-20, 1-4 in. ; pedicels in fruit |-f in., often exceeding 



the bfacteoles. Eidges pf the carpels thin, narrowly winged, lateral rather the 



broadest. — The fruit is dorsally compressed ; Klotzsch's figure must have been 

 'taken from very immature fruit, and does not show correctly the shape of the carpel 



in horizontal section at any period. 



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7. P. dentatum, Bentk in Gen, PL i. 915 ; leaves 2-pinnate pinnse J-2 m. 

 ovate, bracteoles 5-8 J in. lanceolate entire or minutely denticulate near the 

 apex, fruit ^ in. ellipsoid. Ligusticum dentatum, Wall. Cat, 547. Hymenolseiift 

 dentata, DC. Prodr. iv. 245. 





Prom KuMAON toSixxm, alt. 9000-13,000 ft., Wallick, &c. 



* Stem 2-4 ft. Segments of the pinncB ^ in., oblong or orate, serrate. Bracts 

 3-0, 1 in., lanceolate, white-margined; rays 5-15, 1-3 in.; bracteoles usually un- 

 dulate on the margin, crenulate or denticulate, or quite entire ; pedicels in niiit 

 usually shorter tiian the bracteoles. Carpels elliptic, dorsally compressed ; ndges 

 thin, narrowly alate, lateral broadest; dorsal furrows 1-vittate, lateral 2-vittate; 

 commissure plane, 4-vittate; calyx-teeth 0; style-bases not prominent, fei yeiy 

 obscurely concave on the inner face, or plane. — Cnidium cuneatum, Ledeb. Fl. Ait. i. 



. 331 (Aulacospermum, /c. Fl. Ross. iv. 7, t. 312) appears the same, but the authentic 

 'example is in young flower only. It is said to differ by tlie upper branches and l^ves 

 being opposite and whorled: but this is occasionally seen in many species p' y^" 

 rospermwrn. P. dmtatum, in the absence of fruit, is very difficult to distinguish from 



. P. angelicoides ; but the leaves and leaflets are generally smaller, the bracteoles lan- 



^ -ceolate (rather than narrow-lanceolate) and slightly crenulate or serrulate, l^ ^^' 



fining the area of the species; all Sir J. D. Hooker's examples distributed as P. «j»^?' 



,' licoides have been referred to P. dentatum ; thouffh the leaflets are large, the friu 



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sinall, and the bracleotes distinctly serrulate. 



Vah. erosa, DC. I.e.; bracts 4-5, leafletL — --^ 



Iffixed with the type as DC. states. There appear two states of the bracts, ami 

 two very diiferently cut leaves; the latter may indicate a different species as i^<;^' 

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8. p. pumilum, Benth. in Om. PL i. 915 ; leaves mnnate pm: ^ , 

 ovate lobed or subpinnatifid, bracts 1-2 small linear or 0, bracteoles 3-7 ^ 

 linear entire obscurely white-margined. Ligusticum pumilum, Wall. Cat. oq^j 

 Hymenolsena pumila, DC. Prodr. iv. 245. 



Nipal; Wallich. Sikkim; Islumbo, alt. 11,000 ft, C. B. Clarke. ,.^_ 



. _ The specimens are without fruit. The species is vpry near P. deiitatum,^ ^^ Die 



only in the subobsolete bracts and very narrow bracteoles. The Sikkim ^^^^^^ 



must have been at least 3 feet high, so that the name jncviilum is not well appue ^ 



the species. 



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Kashmir; Falconer. Lahtjl; alt. 11,000-12,000 ft., Bev. H. Jaeschke. ^^ 

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 Bracts 4-6, 1-3 in., lobed or pinnatifid at the apex ; rays 10-35, 1 J-3 in- j ^f ^'T^er 

 white-margined, entire, incised or lobed in the same umbel. Fruit slightly ^*^|^ 

 than broad; epicarp of very lax tissue (as in P. Govanianum) the transverse 

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fruit ; calyx-teeth obsolete ; ridges subequal, hardly winged. 





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