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basi subeuneata, interdum inzequalia, eleganter rigideque serrata, simul minutissime 
denticulata, costa crassa subtus elevata, venis laxe reticulatis ; petiolus crassiusculus, 
4-5 poll. longus, parvivaginatus. Folia caulina similia sed subpinnata, magni- 
vaginata, foliolis 2-inferioribus multo majoribus petiolulatis, vaginis caulem arcte 
involventibus. Inflorescentie rami primarii divaricati, verticillatim dispositi et in 
apice caulis aggregati, simplices vel pauci-ramulosi; umbelle breviter pedunculate, 
secus ramos sæpius ternatim disposite, pedicelli 1-11 lineas longi. Flores non 
visi. Fructus obovato-oblongus, 6-7 lineas longus; vittæ omnino obsolete ; carpo- 
phorum bipartitum. 
Hari-rud valley: 718, July 25, 1885; Badghis: 476, May 16, 1885. This is an 
extremely common plant in the Badghis, where I only saw it in а very young state. I 
missed it completely in its flowering condition. However, I am glad to say that there 
are young plants of it in the gardens at Kew, which looked flourishing when I last 
saw them. 
ZOZIMIA ABSINTHIFOLIA, Vent.; Boiss. Fl. Or. ii. p. 1037. 
Badghis: 367, May 1, 16, 1885. Native name Zardak-kohi, Trak-mastar, Terek- 
mustar. А very common and well-known herb, of which the leaves and root are eaten, 
both raw and cooked, by the people of the country. Extends throughout the Badghis 
and the Hari-rud valley into Khorasan. 
JOHRENIA PLATYPODA, Aitch.et Hemsl., n. sp. (Plate XXIX.) Herba perennis, erecta, 
undique glaberrima, radicibus fasciculatis carnosis clavatis. Caulis graciliusculus, 
teres, 21—3-pedalis, sursum ramosissimus, ramulis ultimis gracillimis. Folia 
5-8 poll. longa, breviter petiolata, circumscriptione deltoidea, triternato-pinnatisecta, 
segmentis ultimis linearibus vel filiformibus 6-9 lineas longis; foliorum eaulinorum 
vaginz latz, basi auriculate, marginibus demum (saltem in siccis) revolutis. 
Umbelle valde inzequaliter 4—6-radiatee, bracteis bracteolisque parvis linearibus; 
umbellule inzequaliter 5-8-radiate. Flores desunt. Fructus mericarpia obovato- 
oblonga, margine fungosa, jugis dorsalibus tenuibus; vittæ valleculares solitarize, sat 
eonspicuze. | 
Hari-rud valley: 620, June 8, 1885. In clayey soil inundated with rain-water, growing 
in great expanses, and looking from the distance as if it were under cultivation. 
A plant from three to four feet in height, with very curious spongy roots, in addition to 
the ordinary fibrous roots. : они 
In habit, and the very unequal umbels, this is very similar to J. fungosa, from which it 
is readily distinguished by its more finely cut leaves and relatively narrow fungous margin 
of the mericarps. It also approaches J. Candollei, but that has deeply furrowed stems, 
Daucus Canora, Linn.; Boiss. Fl. Or. ii. p. 1076. | — 2% 
Hari-rud valley : 582, June 8, 1885. Native name Zardak. This is not an indigenous 
plant, but a weed and an escape from cultivation in cultivated land; whereas the plant 
Т collected in the Kuram valley * was truly indigenous. The carrot is very extensively 
cultivated both in Afghanistan and in Persia. 
* Journ. Linn. Soc. (Bot.) xviii. (1881) p. 64. 
