ThaMctrum.] ' flora indica. 17 



utrinque acutiusculis, stylo dilatato deraum deciduo apiculatis, valide 



costatis. 



a. vulgare; glabrum, foliis miuoribus. — T. minus, L. et And. 



ft. fcetidu 



T. minus, j3. 



gland ulosum, Koch ; Led. Ft. Rons. i. 8. T. fcetidum, L. et Auct. T. va- 



ginatum, Royle! III. 52. — (v. v.) 



y. majus ; glabrum vel glaucescens, foliis majoribus. — T. majus, 



Jacq. et Auct. T. Kemense, Fries! Led. FL Ross. i. 13. T. Maxwellii, 



Royle! III. 52.— {v. v.) 



Hab. In Tibet occidentali vulgatissimum ; et in Himalaya; occidentalis 

 jugis interioribus, alt. 9-12,000 ped., in graminosis: Nubra ! Ladak ! 

 Zanskar!. Kashmir! Kishtwar ! Kanawer et Piti, Royle ! etc. Sikkim 

 iuterius, alt. 11-12,000 ped.— Var. a. (forma Europsea) in India rarius 

 occurrit in sylvis Himalayae interioris temperatse ; j3. in Tibetia vulgaris, 

 etiam occurrit in montibus altioribus Kishtwar et Kanawer ; y. quae in 

 Tibet in pratis Zanskar et Piti crescit (alt. 10-11,000 ped.) vulgatior 

 est in siccioribus Himalayae interioris. 



Distbib. Europa tota ! Africa borealis ! (et australis ?) ; Asia tem- 



perata! 



Herba 2-4-pedalis, erecta vel basi prostrata, ramosa; radix fibrosa. Panicula 

 multiflora, fere aphylla. Sepala viridi-purpurascentia, elliptica, nervosa. Antherce 



elongate, mucronatse. 



This species, which is extremely abundant in all parts of Europe and Siberia, is 

 exceedingly polymorphous, and has received at the hands of European and Siberian 

 botanists a vast number of names ; while the great variation in the opinions of dif- 

 ferent authors as to the limits of the different species which they distinguish from 

 one another is, we think, in itself sufficient to prove that the number of these has 

 been considerably over-estimated. We have devoted much time to a careful com- 

 parisou of our extensive suites of Indian specimens with the very large collection of 

 authentically-named European and Siberian forms in the Hookerian Herbarium ; and 

 after attempting in vain to find characters sufficient to distinguish the large-leaved 

 variety, we have felt ourselves driven to the conclusion that only one species exists 

 in India. In this we follow Hooker and Arnott, who in the British Flora (fifth 

 edition) have united all the European forms under T. minus, L. T. saxatile, 

 Schleicher and DC, has been referred unhesitatingly by Planchon, in Herb. Hook., 

 to T. minus; while T. collinum, Wallroth and Ledebour, and T. datum, Murray aud 

 DC, appear to be forms of T. majus. T. Kemense, Fries., which is identical with 

 T. Maxwellii, Royle, is distinguished by Ledebour from allied species by the pre- 

 sence of stipellfie at the division* of the compound leaf. This character we have 

 unfortunately found entirely to fail, as these organs are present or absent on dif- 

 ferent leaves of the same specimen and parts of the same leaf. The number of 

 synonyms might be much increased if this were the proper place to do so, and if 

 authentic specimens were available, The dingy purple hue of the densely-panicled 

 flowers, and the long stamens, seem to characterize all the forms, but the fruit varies 

 somewhat in length, being usually, though not invariably, thicker and shorter in the 



larger states. 



T 



346); foliis 



teriiatim decomposes, segmentis ultimis minutis oblongis obtusis, pa- 



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mibus 



3-6 subsessilibus oblongis utrinque obtusiusculis valide costatis. 

 Led. Ic. Alt. /. 397, Fl. Eons. i. 7. 



