Araliacee.] 
Osmorhiza brevistylis, DC. 
Hab. Turandain Kunawur. I cannot distinguish this 
from the North American species; which occurs on the 
west side of the rocky mountains, and which it may therefore 
be presumed will be found in the Flora of Northern China, 
Osmorrhiza lava (Royle) stylis subclaviformibus angulo 
acuto divergentibus latitudinem fructus subequantibus, 
caule laxo, umbellis nutantibus, Tab. 52. f. 1. 
Hab. Sirmore in the Himalayan Mountains. 
Pleurospermum cicutarium ; valleculis fructus univittatis, 
jugis lateralibus margine incrassatis, foliis supradecom- 
positis, foliolis pectinatis: laciniis acuminatis, 
Hab. Choor and Simla. 
Hymenorana, DC, 
This genus, as it stands in De Candolle’s Prodromus, 
contains plants with three essentially different kinds of fruit. 
The mass of the species probably agrees with Hymenolena 
Benthami and Angelicoides, although what specimens I 
have seen are in too imperfect a state to enable any one to 
form a fixed opinion upon the subject. But H. obtusiuscula 
does not appear to differ from Ligusticwm, to which Dr. 
Wallich had referred it, as it certainly has the albnmen and 
vitte of that genus; and H. Brunonis, the albumen of which 
is not involute, forms a genus scarcely differing from 
Cnidium, except in its remarkably membranous involucra. 
Of what are probably genuine Hymenolenas, Mr. Royle’s 
Herbarium contains the following new species : 
1. Hymenolena latifolia; foliis pinnatis, foliolis sub- 
rotundo-ovatis gross® serratis, involucri foliolis spatulatis 
semi-coloratis parum divisis: involucelli membranaceis 
obovatis indivisis costé herbacea. 
‘Hab. Peer Punjal. 
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2. Hymenolena Govaniana ; (W all.) foliis pinnatis, foliolis 
pinnatifidis: laciniis lineari-oblongis subtrilobis serratis, 
involueri foliolis foliaceis multifidis radiis umbelle multo 
brevioribus vix coloratis, involucelli rhomboideis stellatis 
semifoliaceis acute tridentatis, Tab. 52. f. 2. 
Hab. Kedarkanta and Peer Punjal. 
N.B. These two last species are nearly related to Cnidium 
cuneatum of Ledebour, which is probably an Altai form of 
HAymenolena. 
3. Hymenolena stellata ; subacaulis v. parum caulescens, 
foliis pinnatis, folivlis subrotundis 3-5-partitis incisis : 
laciniis mucronatis, involucri foliolis foliaceis margine tan- 
tum membranaceis involucelli stellatis apice foliaceis subbi- 
pinnatifidis mucronatis membranaceo-alatis. 
Selinum stellatum. Don Prod. Fl. Nep. 185. DC. Prod. 
3,165. 4. foliolis involucellisque altiis incisis. 
Hab, Lippa and Soongnum in Kunawur. 
HyMeEnipium. 
Calycis margo obsoletus. Fructus sectione transversali 
subteres. Mericarpia jugis 5 subsqualibus alatis, ala mem- 
branacea, lateralibus marginantibus; stylis longis recurvis 
coronata, Vallecule 1-vittate. Commissura 4-vittata. 
Semen semiteres. Albumen hinc planum.—Herbe perennes, 
foliis supradecompositis, Involucra, et involucella membra- 
naceo-marginata; hee floribus longiora. 
1, Hymenidium Brunonis. 
Hymenolena Brunonis. DC. Prod, 4, 245. 
Hab. Cashmere and Choor Mountain. 
2. Hymenidium ? densiflorum; foliorum Jaciniis line- 
aribus : ultimis 2-3-fidis acuminatis, involucri foliolis lanceo- 
lato-rhomboideis 5-fidis involucelli tridentatis membranaceis 
acutis. 
Hab. Cashmere, Choor, and Kedarkanta, 
88. ARALIACEZ. 
The Araliacee of Jussieu, to which has been added Hedera, long confounded with 
Caprifoliacee, has its genera distributed through both tropical and European countries, 
and is found both at the base and at considerable elevations in the Himalayas. In the 
Peninsula of India, and in the districts of Chittagong and Silhet, are found species of 
Gilibertia, Hedera, and Paratropis ; of these, the two last, with Panaz, extend to Nepal, 
where also is found the new genus Zorricellia, allied to Hedera. From this to the sides 
of the hills in the Deyra Doon, extends Panax fragrans, Roxb., forming a small tree, 
of from sixteen to twenty feet in height: P.decomposita, found on Gossainthan, occurs 
also at Mussooree. Of the genus Hedera, the Ivy, or a variety with yellow fruit, 
is the most common species, and may be seen clinging to the rock and clasping the 
oak ; affording, from its pleasing associations, glad recognition to the European traveller. 
There are several species of the genus in Silhet and Nepal; but H. e@sculifolia and 
terebinthacea (Ar alia digitata, Roxb., referred to Paratropis by Wight and Arn.), with 
Hedera parasitica, Don, are found as far north and the last as high as Mussooree. 
The plants of this family are not possessed of very decided medical properties, though 
the Ginseng, produced by Panar quinguefolium, has been more celebrated than plants of 
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