Angelica UMBELLIFERAE-CORNACEAE Hehuingia 



1. Angelica dahurica (Fisch.) Fr. & Sav. (Callisace dahurica Fisch.) (DC. P. 4:184). 

 Stout perennial; fls. white. Transbaicalia to eastern China; locally in Che., Hup. 

 Open ground. 



2. Angelica grosseserrata Maxim. (St.P.B. 19:275). Slender perennial, to 2 m.; fls. 

 white. Northern and eastern China; locally in Che., Ku. Open places. 



23. Peucedanum Linn. fiJ#3M (Ch'ien Hu Shu) 



Mostly perennial herbs with pinnatisect lvs.: fls. white to purple, greenish or 



yellowish, in compound umbels; petals obovate, notched or bilobed: fr. strongly flattened 



dorsally; the lateral ribs corky -thickened and narroivly winged, the dorsal ribs filiform. 



About 100 species, in Eurasia and Africa; 15 in China. Latin: Peucedanum, hog's fennel.) 



Key to the Species 



Lvs. with a serrate winged rachis: petals purplish 1. P. decursivum 



Lvs. without a winged rachis: petals white. 



Ovaries glabrous 2. P. terebinthaceum 



Ovaries pubescent 3. P. formosanum 



1. Peucedanum decursivum (Miq.) Maxim. ft#J (Ch'ien Hu; First-long-life) (Mak.F. 

 266). Stout herb, to 2 m.; fls. purplish. Eastern Asia; locally in An., Che., Hun., 

 Hup., Ki. Shady woods. 



2. Peucedanum terebinthaceum (Fisch.) Fr. & Sav. (Le.F. 2:314). Slender herb, 

 1-2 m.; fls. white. Eastern Asia; locally in An., Hup., Ku. Mountain slopes. 



3. Peucedanum formosanum Hayata (Hay. 10:22). Stout perennial, 1-3 m.; fls. 

 white. Eastern Asia; locally in An., Che., Hup., Ki., Ku. Mountain thickets. 



132. CORNACEAE Dogwood Family W&fflft (Ssu Chao Hua K'o) 

 Hermaphrodite or dioecious trees or shrubs, rarely herbs, with mostly estipulate 

 lvs. and epigynous Us., not in umbels; calyx lobes and petals usually 4 or 5; stamens 

 the same number, on the margin of a disk; ovary inferior, usually 2-celled: fr. a 

 drupe or berry. 10 genera with 90 species, of temperate and subtropical regions, 

 mostly in the northern hemisphere; 4 genera and 30 species in China. 



Key to the Genera 



A. Fls. borne on the upper surface of the lvs.; dioecious: lvs. 



deciduous, alternate 1 • Hehvingia 



AA. Fls. borne in axillary or terminal infl. 



Lvs. alternate, deciduous Cornus controversa 



Lvs. opposite. 



Lvs. deciduous: fls. in corymbs or umbels, bisexual 2. Cornus (in part) 



Lvs. evergreen: fls. in terminal panicles; dioecious 3. Aucuba 



1. Helwingia Willd. H^ftM (Yeh Chang Hua Shu) 



Dioecious deciduous shrubs with alternate serrate lvs. and small 4-(3-5-)merous fls. 



borne in fascicles on the upper surface of the lvs. : fr. a berry-like drupe with 1-4 



stones. 3 species, in Asia; all occurring in China. (For G. A. Helwing, 1666-1748, a 



German clergyman and botanical author.) 



1. Helwingia japonica Dietr. ?^JVfi: (Yeh Chang Hua; Leaf -borne Flower) (R.M. 



681). Shrub, to 1.5 m.; fls. greenish white, IV-VI; fr. black, VIII. Japan, China; 



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