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^ HiMAXATA, alt. 3000-9000 ft. ; from Kashmtb to Sikkim, frequent.— Disthib N 



Asia, Europe, N, Africa. 



.•'i?^u^^f ^^^ hispid; 1-2 (in the Himalaya 5) ft. Secondary pin7ia 1 in., pin- 

 natitid half-way down into lanceolate acute lobes. U7nbels long-peduncled, rays 5-12 - 

 bracteoles linear, not white-margined. Petals purplish or white, not radiant. Bristles 

 scattered over the whole surface of the fruit, rough, curved or almost hooked, not 

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2. C. leptophylla, Linn.; DC, Prodr. iv. 216; bracts 0, fruit g ^ _., 

 secondary ridges prominent, primary filiform minutely hispid, bristles in 1-3 

 rows. Boiss. FL Oinmt. ii. 1084. 



Kashmir, alt. 4000-6000 ft., Jacquemont, Thomson, Punjab; Falconer,— Dibtrib. 



W. Asia, S. Europe, JST. Africa. 



Resembling C. Anthriscus, but the leaves rather more finely cut, ultimate seg- 

 ments narrower, sometimes almost linear; fruit larger, bristles longer, shining, 

 scarcely scabrous, subglochidiate. Umbels often lateral, peduncle 1-2 in., stout; 

 ?ays usually 2_/>. 



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prominent and aculeate. Tordylium lati folium, Linn. Sp. PL 

 latifolia, Hoffm. ; DC. Prodr. iv. 218 j Boiss. FL (hient. ii. 1085 



Kashmir; Palco7ier; alt. 5000-8000 ft., frequent, C. B. Clarke. 

 Hispid, almost prickly, 4-24 in., rigid, erect or divaricate. Lea 



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midrib. Bays 3-4> 



1-3 m. ; pedicels hardly J as long as the fruit. Carpels with 7 subequally aculeate 

 ndges, the two lateral primary ridges within the commissure less prominent; bristles 



fitout, rouc^h. piirvAfl nr npArlv straicrht. at the anex. hardlv i?lochidiate. 



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A small annual, pubescent or glabrous. Leaver 1-2-pinnate, pinnae laci- 

 ^iate. Umbels compound; bracts and bracteoles many, small, lanceolate or 

 Knear, scarious. Calyx-teeth obsolete. Petals obovate, emarginate, white or 

 purplish, not or but slightly radiant in the outer flowers. Fruit small, ovoid 

 or lanceolate commissure slightly constricted ; primary and secondary ridges 

 ^ry, elevated, scarcely winged, secondary rather the more prominent ; vittse 

 solitary, under the secondary ridges ; carpophore 2-fid. Seed somewhat dorsally 

 compressed, inner face plane or scarcely concave. 



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1- p. biternatum, IJdgw. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xx. 57 ; segments of the 

 lower leaves ovate pinnatifid into narrow lobes of the upper narrowly cuneate 

 laciniate, hairs on the ridges white capitellate 1-seriate scattered longer than 

 the carpel is broad. P. crinitum, Soiss. FL Orient, ii. 1078. PimpineUa cnni- 

 *0m, B<ms. in Ann. Sc. Nat. 3rd ser. i. 131. 



PtTNjAB Plain, ascending the Himalaya to 3000 ft. ; frequent. Sonde.— Distbib. 



Beloochistan, CaLuI, Persia. , ^ ^ * -n 



&tem 2-8 in., divaricately branched, pubescent or grey subtomentose, not viUous. 



Peduncles 1-3 in., stent, lateral and terminal. Bracts 3-8, i-h m., narrowly lan- 

 ceolate or linear ; rays 5-10, ^-1 in. ; bracteoles 4-8, i in , fanceolate sheathing 

 tte young umbellulet pedicels 6-16, i in. Fruit scarcely ^ in., lanceolate, tJunly 

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