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XIV. Description of the Asafeetída Plant of Central Asia. By Hues 
| FarconeK, M.D., F.L.S. &c. 
Read November 3rd, 1846. 
Ord. Nat. UMBELLIFER2. 
Trib. PEvcEpANEz, DeC. 
NARTHEX. 
Cuar. Gen. Calycis margo obsoletus. Petala ? Stylopodium plicato-urceolatum. 
Styli filiformes demüm reflexi. Fructus a dorso plano-compressus, margine dilatato 
cinctus. Mericarpia jugis primariis 5, 3 intermediis filiformibus, 2 lateralibus obsoleti- 
oribus margini contiguis immersis. Vi/fe in valleculis dorsalibus plerumque solitariz 
(valleculis lateralibus nunc sesqui- vel bivittatis) ; commissurales 4-6 varie inaquales, 
exterioribus sæpè reticulatim interruptis. Semen complanatum, Carpophorum bi- 
partitum. Umbelle pedunculate, composite. Jnvolucrum utrumque nullum. 
Genus inter Peucedaneas, calycis margine edentato, fructüs vittis magnis, commissuralibus- 
que inzequalibus, et involucro utroque nullo, distinctum. Narther nuncupatum a 
vocabulo vápně, apud Dioscoridem Ferule attributo. 
N. AsAF«TIDA, caule tereti simplici petiolis dilatatis aphyllis instructo, foliis radicalibus 
fasciculatis; petiolis trisectis segmentis bipinnatisectis: laciniis lineari-lingulatis ob- 
tusis inzequilateralibus integris vel varié sinuatis decurrentibus. 
Asafetida Disgunensis, Kempf. Ameenit. Exot. p. 535. 
Ferula Asafetida, Linn. Mater. Med. p. 79; DeCand. Prodr. iv. 173; Lindl. Flor. Med. 
p. 45. 
Hab. in apricis inter saxa in valle “ Astore” vel * Hussorah” dicta prope Indum, ultra 
Cashmeer; indigenis Daradris “Sip” vel *Süp." Legi fructigerum prope Boosthon 
21? die Septembris 1838. 
Descr. A tall perennial plant, 5 to 8 feet high, Root fusiform, simple or divided, a foot 
or upwards in length, about 3 inches in diameter at the top, with a dark-greyish trans- 
versely corrugated surface: the summit invested above the soil with dark hair-like 
fibrous tegmenta, the persistent exuvie of former years: cortical layer thick and 
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