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Hari-rud valley : 237, April 15, 19, 1885; May 10, 1885; Badghis, May 16, 1885. 
Native name Badra-kema, Bi-rijeh. Опе of the Umbelliferze which are so characteristic 
of the flora, growing like several others gregariously, no other plants being visible over 
large expanses of country. "This was the one that was so common around Gulran, of 
the young foliage of which the camels made havoc. Owing to the minute divisions 
of the leaves we called this the parsley-leaved Ferula. It was the first to show its 
leaves in spring, and when its radical leaves were perfect and fresh, they formed round the 
stem what appeared like a cushion of soft moss. 
The stem shoots up very rapidly and is hollow throughout its whole length. 1 
rapidly tapers upwards and bears a most lovely loose panicle of orange-coloured flowers. 
At this stage the stem is orange-coloured and has a transparent appearance, subsequently 
assuming a more or less ruddy autumnal tint. From the very first an orange-coloured 
creamy juice exudes from any injured part; but wherever I saw the thickened juice on 
the stem, the injury had not been caused by an insect, but by some accident to the 
plant. Тһе usual place to find the gum is at the base of the stem, where, owing to the 
violence of the wind being most felt, the bark cracks, and beneath this the gum 
collects, usually in contact with the stems of the radical leaves and the soil. The native 
name for the gum is Jao-shir. 
We have seen only a small portion of a leaf and a fruit-bearing umbel of Boissier's 
var. B Aucheri of this species, and our plant has hollow, not solid, stems, and conspicu- 
ously hairy, not glabrous, petals; yet we feel convinced that it is the same species. 
The stem may be solid at first, and as to the hairs on the petals, they appear to be 
very fugacious. 16 is the only species with such exceedingly small, short, hairy, ultimate 
leaf-segments that has come under our observation, and the fruit of our plant agrees 
exactly in shape and with the description of F. galbaniflua. 
FERULA ($ EURYANGIUM) SUAVEOLENS, Aitch. et Hemsl., n. sp.; Aitch. Pharmac. Journ. 
l. c. p. 407. (Plates XX., XXL) Planta perennis, monocarpica (?), undique glabra vel 
glabrescens, gummifera, radice crassissima. Caulis 4—5-pedalis, ad nodos incrassatus. 
Folia radicalia 14-2 ped. longa (et forsan sæpius longiora), longe petiolata, tripartita, 
divisionibus pinnatifidis sepius 5-lobatis, lobis crassiusculis oblongis vel ovali-oblongis 
3-11 poll. latis decurrentibus interdum irregulariter paucicrenatis simul minutissime 
denticulatis subtus hispidulis. Folia сайта similia sed minus secta, superiora 
simpliciter pinnatifida longeque vaginata. Inflorescentia verticillatim ramosa, ramis 
sepius 3-5-umbellatis ; umbella multiradiata, centrali breviter pedunculata, feminea, 
lateralibus minoribus longe pedunculatis masculinis. Flores flavi; petala lata, 
vix apice inflexa ; pistilli carpella semicircularia vel a latere leviter compressa, vittis 
solitariis vallecularibus maximis jam instructa, commisura 2-vittata. Fructus deest. 
Khorasan; 1064, June 18, 1885. Оп the hills to the south of Bezd, аб an altitude 
of 6000 feet, in shady places and in the vicinity of running water. The root is scented, 
and it is one of the kinds of Sumbul exported from Persia to Bombay by the Persian 
Gulf. 
From the shape of the pistil and very young fruit, one would never suspect that the 
