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oblong white-margined obtuse lobed or very shortly pinnatifid at the apex, fruit 

 6 m ellipsoid somewhat longer than broad, epicarp of very lax tissue, seed grooved 

 on the inner face. Selinura stellatum, Doti Prodr. 185 : I) C. Pmdr fv Ififi 



grooved 

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, North-west Himalaya ; Ro^le. Kumaon; Milam Glacier, alt. 13,000 ft., Strachey 

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. Stem^ 1-6 in. Leaves 2-4 in., oblong ; pinnae ovate, acutely serrate, or subflabel- 

 lately pinnatifid or nearly 2-pinnate with mucronate lobes. Bracts 1-4. ^-1^ in., 

 pinnatifid; rays 3-5, 1-6 in., glabrons; pedicels rery short. Fruit dorsally 

 compressed ; style-bases globose, depressed ; calyx-teeth obsolete ; petals often per- 

 sistent. Carpels plane on the inner face; lateral ridges hardly so wide as the 



intermediate and dorsal, all obtuse, hollow: epicarp rugose, but hardly plicate : fur- 

 rows l-yittate. t t B^ J ^ > 



Vak. Lindleyana ; bracteoles entire or slightly lobed, leaves often 2-pinnate ulti- 

 mte segments oblong or obovate obtuse. Hymenolsena Lindleyana, Klotzsch iu 

 «^w. Pr. JValdem. Bot. 150, t. 49. H. nana, Osten-Sacken ^' Eiiprect Serf. Tianshan, 

 jy. Hymenolsena, sp. No. 9, Herb, Bid. Or. H.f. ^ T. ? Aulacospermura simplex, 

 I's^. # Rup. Z.c— West Himalaya, alt. 13,000-16,000 ft.; Kashmir, Thonison. 

 l^HTTL; Rev. H, Jueschke. — Distrib. Karakorum (Northern slope); Tianschan Mts. — 

 ^-xcept as to 'the obtuse (not mucronate) ultimate segments of the leaflets, there 

 ssems no difference between this and P. stellatum type. Of AnJa^o^pcriunm sim- 



P^c^, the authentic example has the fruit not half-ripe, the bracteoles are rather 

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11. P. apiolenSy C. B. Clarke] leaves pinnate pinnae ^-U in. ovate 

 often pinnatifid with 3-6-7 lobes, bracteoles 6-10 obovate caudate often toothed 

 ^r the apex, calyx-teeth obsolete, fruit ^-^ in. ellipsoid subquadrate. — Hyme- 

 ^oteiiasp. 10, Herh Ind. Or,, H.f. ^ T. 



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Interior valleys of Sikkim. alt. 11,000-14,000 ft. ; J, D. H ; Elwes ; C. B, Clarke, 

 o^e^ 3-18 in. Leaves 4-8 in., oblong, mucronate-serrate. Bracts 4-5, f-lj in., 

 ^Dovate-lauceolate, toothed, sometimes slightly pinnatifid, rarely subentire; rays 

 I^-IG, 1-2 in. ; pedicels many, scarcely ^ in. in fruit, much shorter than the brac- 

 ^les. Carpels dorsally compressed; epicarp loose but not of open tissue; ridges 

 ^arrowly winged, subequal; furrows 1-vittate, Seed twice as broad as thick, inner 

 ^^ exactly plane.— Smells of celery (J. D. H.). . , 



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Kookeri, C. B. Clarke; leaves 2-3-pinnate ultimate pmna 

 ^''i in. ovate or oblong toothed or pinnatifid, bracteoles 6-lOobovate-lanceoIatf 

 «^ntire wbite-mardned, calyx-teeth ovate.— H>7nenolaena sp. 8, Herb. Lnd, 

 ^yS.f, 8f T. Oreocome sp. 1, Herb. Ind. Or. H.f. 8f. T. 



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Stem 8-20 in. 



Leaves 6-12 in., ovate, mucronate-serrate. Bracts 4-7, l-l^ in. 



^^ceolate, often toothed or pinnatifid at the apex ; rays 4-8, 1-3 in. ; pedicels very 

 ^y^ H in., shorter than the bracteoles. Petals persistent. Fruit not ripe, but 



^^e nearly as in the var. Thonisoni. 



*^AR. Tho?nsoni; bracteoles narrowly lanceolate (not at all obovate) narrow and 



^n^o^ly white-margined often not prominent. West Tibet, alt. 14,000-16,000 ft.. 



^p^on; Shelshed Eiver, alt. 15,500 ft., Strachey # Winterbottom.— Fruit ^ in., 



^.Psoid ; epicarp loose but not of open tissue ; ridges thin, narrowly winged, lateral 



uttle broadest. Seed plane on the inner face or nearly so.— United with P. Hooken 

 J^^- f. & T. in Herb and it agrees with it as to the ovate calyx-teeth, but diflfers m 

 t^ ?.^* smaUer bracteoles and the remote locality. It has been nlaced next Selinum 

 ^Woliu7n by H. f. & T (mss.)and its bracts and bnicteoles are hardly more promi- 

 J^^^ian in that*species : but P. Hoqkeri tj^Q must be placed in Pleurospermumy 



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