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^ Tall perennial AerJs. Leaves 2-3-pinnate, ultimate pinnse tootlied, usually 

 iarge. Umbels compound, rays many; bracts few, small, or 0: bracteoles 

 many, linear, or obsolete. Calyx-teeth obsolete (in India). PetaU ovate, sub- 

 entire, white. Fruit ellipsoid, subquadrate, or oblong; commissure broad; 

 carpels dorsally compressed, lateral ridges winged or acute, dorsal and interme- 

 aiate narrower, distinct; vittse many; carpophore 2-partite. Seed dorsally 

 much compressed, inner face plane.- " -.-. — -_ 



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•DiSTRiB. Species 6, in North Temperate 



1. A. officinalis, HoJ. PI Umb. Gen. i. 168; leaflets \^ by f2 in., 

 bracteoles as long as the flowering umbellule, fruit \ in. DC. Prodr. iv. 169. 

 A. decurrens, Ledeh Ic. Fl. Hoss. ii. -21^ t. 166. Angelica Archangelica, Zinn. 



Var. himalaica; flowers twice as large, fruit ^ by J in. 



Kashmir; 8-13,000 ft., C. B. Clarke; Aitchiesm. Jooi; alt. 11.000 ft., Thornson. 

 ^ikkim; Lachen, alt. 10,000-11,000 ft., J. D. if.— Distkib. (of the type) North 

 J^urope, Asia, and America. 



' otem 5-10 ft. Leaves 1-3 ft., orate, ultimate pinnae sessile, rarely decurrent, 

 tennmal often 3-lobed. Bracts small; rays 10-30, 1^-4 in.; pedwels\ery nume- 

 ^^.®' i^i in. Lateral ridges usually winged; pericarp somewhat coriy, easily sepa- 

 ^ing from the seed ; vittae numerous, small, on the inner surface of the pericarp. — 

 ^e fruit of the Himalayan variety is much larger than that of any other ArchaTigelica 

 preserved at Kew. It closely resembles the flowering example of A, decurrens^ but 

 ^ Ledebour's figure of that species its fruit is no larger than in ordinary A. officinalis. 



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_^ herbs- leaves 2-4-piimatifid or 2-4-pinnate. Umbels compound. 



^ lowers yellow, often polygamous. Calyx-teeth obsolete. Petals ovate, obtuse, 

 or emarginate. Fruit orbicular or ellipsoid, much compressed dorsally ; lateral 

 ^dges winged, dorsal and intermediate filiform or obscure j vittae many or few ; 

 ^rpophore 2-partite. Seed mucli dorsally compressed, inner &ce plane, 

 ^iSTRiB. Species 60, in Europe, N. Africa, Central Asia. 



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, ■»• P. Narthez, Boiss. Fl. Orient, ii. 994; secondary and tertiarjr pinn.-e 

 recurrent entire or very irregularly crenate-sen-ate, ovary glabrous, fruit ^ by f 

 ^.. vitta9 manifest broad 1 (rarely 1-2) in the dorsal furrows. I luck. Sflfanh. 

 %^m. 280 : Bentl Sr Trim. Med. B. t. 126. Narthex Asafcetida, Fak. tn 

 i;«««. Linn. Soc. xx. 285 ; Bot. Mag. t. 6168 ; Balf. in Trans. R. Soc. Edtnb. 

 **• 366, tt. 21, 22. 



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 ^.. - 5-8 ft. Leaves pubescent, at least when young 



^o^ne sheaths large, from which spring simple or . . 



i^J[niinal umbel large, compound, leafless. .VittcB broafl, usually occupying the whole 

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