508 Lxvii. u>ri3i;LT,iF£ii.T;. 



subulate, § in. long, or 0. Partial umbels G-12-flo\vered, g-i in. long, 

 the outer flowers fertile with long divaricate purple styles, the inner 

 sterile with scarcely any styles; bracteoles 3, unilateral. Fruit | in. 

 long, dorsally compressed, ovoid, glabrous, shining, many-ribbed. Fl. B. I. 

 V. 2, p. 698; Dalz. & Gibs. p. 107. — Flowers: June-July. 



A rare plant. Konkan : SlocAsl; Mahvau, BahcHl; Dapoli, Xuinic. Kan'ar.v: 

 Law I 



G. ZOSIMIA, lloffm. 



A perennial pubescent or hirsute herb. Leaves pinnately decom- 

 pound ; segments small. Flowers white or greenish -yellow; umbels 

 compound, many-rayed ; bracts and bracteoles usually many, small. 

 Calyx-teeth prominent. Petals equal or unequal, rarely radiant, with 

 an inflexed acumen, emarginate or 2-lobed. Disk depressed, with un- 

 dulate margin. Fruit orbicular or elliptic, dorsally much compressed, 

 surrounded by a broad tumid margin before dehiscence ; mericarps 

 slightly convex in the middle of the back ; dorsal and intermediate 

 ridges slender, the lateral dilated into closely contiguous wings which 

 form the margin of the fruit, the space between the margin and the 

 seed-bearing cell hyaline ; vittse large, solitary in the furrows. Carpo- 

 phore 2-partite. Seed flat or slightly convex on the back. — Distrib. 

 W. Asia; species 1. 



1. Zosimia orientalis, Hojfm. Gen. PL Umbel, ed. 1 (1814) p. 148, 

 1. 1, B, fig. 7. A stout perennial pubescent or hirsute herb 1-3 ft. high ; 

 root large, fusiform ; stems grooved, pubescent. Leaves reaching 8 in. 

 long, decompound, oblong-lanceolate in outline, pubescent, much cut ; 

 ultimate segments narrow, linear, obtuse or subacute, -^jj-^ in. broad. 

 Flowers greenish-yellow ; petals obovate-oblong, yV~8 ^'^' "^^^S with a 

 very long inflexed acumen. Primary umbels 10-3U-rayed, the rays un- 

 equal, 2-4 in. long, stout, pubescent ; bracts about 10, linear-lanceolate, 

 very acute, g in. long, pubescent (often araneously so when young). 

 Partial umbels 8-25-rayed ; bracteoles 8-12, linear-lanceolate, ^ in. long, 

 pubescent ; pedicels -1— | in. long. Disk veiy large. Ovary densely 

 pubescent ; style bases not dilated. Fruit pubescent until fully ripe, 

 obovate or elliptic, g by | in. with a broad wing ; dorsal and intermediate 

 ridges prominent, very slender ; vittge thick, solitary in the furrows ; 

 commissural vitta? 2-4. Jackson, in Index Ivevven. v. 4, p. 12.54, 

 Zosimia ahsinthifolia, DC. Prodr. v. 4 (1830) p. 195 ; C. B. Clarke, in 

 Hook. f. Fl. B. I. V. 2, p. 717. IleracJeum ahsinthifolium , Vent. Choix, 

 t. 7. 



A rare plant, confined in the Bombay Presideney to Sind. Si.\d : Stocks, 958 .' — 

 Distrib. India (Panjab) ; Afghanistan, Belucliistan. 



7. PEUCEDANUM, Linn. 



Perennial (rarely annual) usually glabrous herbs. Leaves pinnately 

 or ternately decompound (rarely simply pinnate). Flowers white or 

 yellow (rarely pink), often polygamous, those of the central umbels 

 usually perfect. Umbels compound, usually with many rays ; bracts 

 various ; bracteoles many, rarely minute or 0. Calyx-teeth obsolete or 

 more or less prominent, small. Petals obovate, cuneate, or subovate, 

 inflexed at the tip, emarginate or entire, not radiant. Disk undulate 



