56 Mr. Edgeworth on some unpublished Species of 



natifidis: lobis inciso-serratis marginatis ciliolatis mucronatis, involucelli 

 foliolis subulatis, calycis laciniis brevibus, valleculis dorsalibus 2-3-mar- 

 ginalibus bivittatis commissura 6-vittata. 

 Hab. Himala, in apricis graminosis, alt. ped. 7000-9000. Mahaseo, &c. 



Erecta, glabriuscula, bi- tripedalis. Folia bipinnatisecta ; foliolis ovato-lanceolatis, pinna- 

 tifidis ; lobis inciso-serratis, serraturis acutis, mucronatis, marginatis, ciliolatis. Um- 

 bellae longe pedunculatae, oppositifoliae terminalesque, polygamae, multiradiatae. Um- 

 bellulae multiflorae, involucro nuUo v. caduco, involucelli foliolis subulatis. Flores c? : 

 calycis limbus brevissime acute 5-dentatus; petala lineari-lanceolata, apiculo acumi- 

 nato inflexo, adnato. Flores 9 : fructus dorso compressus, stylis reflexis brevibus 

 coronatus ; mericarpia 5-juga, dorsalibus 3 minus, marginalibus amplius alatis, altero 

 mericarpio adpressis; valleculis dorsalibus bi- trivittatis, lateralibus 3-vittatis, com- 

 missura 6-vittata. Semen compressum, antice planum, dorso sub valleculis leviter 

 sulcatum. 



Valde affinis Levistico arguto, Lindl. in Royle 111., quod congener videtur. Fructus fere 

 Selini facie, alis adpressis nee separatis differt et vittis plurimis ; an in genere Cortid 

 admittendum dentibus calycinis brevibus stylisque reflexis alienum ? 



Hae duae species satis distinctae a Cortid Lindleyi habitu et forma foliorum, inter se caly- 

 cis et petalorum forma stylisque differunt ; forsan potius ad Conioselinum intra Sese- 

 lineas referendae *. 



* I have no doubt in assigning a place to my new genus Oreocome in the Angeliceee, as the mar- 

 ginal wings of the mericarps are distinctly divergent, although one of the species belonging to it has been 

 referred to Peucedanum by DeCandoUe ; but with regard to the place of those plants which I have refer- 

 red to Cortia I have some doubt, the wings being not so closely adpressed as in the typical Peucedanex. 

 'ITie fruit, however, exactly resembles that of C. Lindleyi, though Dr. Lindley has referred (in Royle's 

 Illustrations) what appears to me, from a cursory examination, to be a congener with these, to Levisti- 

 cum. In fact, the difference between Peucedaneee and Angelicea is entirely one of degree ; the charac- 

 ter of the "raphe marginal" or " central," as given by DeCandolle, being contrary in the first place 

 to theory, and secondly, to fact. I have specially examined, with Mr. Bentham, fruits of indubitable 

 Heraclea and Peucedana, and found the raphe central ; again, it is difficult to say what amount of 

 curvature in the albumen is sufficient to constitute a campylosperm seed. In Oreocome filicifoUa, 

 Angelica glauca and Cortia vaginata, herein described, the seed is slightly hollowed out in front, but 

 not I think sufficiently so to remove them from the genera to which I have referred them, though I 

 suppose a similar excavation in the seed of 0. cicutaria is the reason why Dr. Lindley referred it to 

 Pleurospermum. I likewise suspect that Ligusticum (^Laserpitium, Wall. List. no. 584) coniifolium 

 is also referable to Oreocome ; but as there is no ripe fruit in the specimens in the Herbarium of the 

 Linnean Society, I cannot be sure on that point. I observe that a similar remark on the unsatisfactory 

 nature of the subordinal and generic characters of this family has been made by M. Boissier. 



