Vicatia."] LXX. UMBELLIFER^. (C. B. Clarke.) 671 



purple-red. Fruit ovoid, narrowed at the apex, scarcely laterally compressed, 

 distinctly constrictedat the commissure. Carpels grooved on the inner face, 

 subpentagonal or subterete, dorsally subcompressed ; lateral primary ridges 

 commissural, intermediate slender but distinct ; vittse 2-3 in each furrow, not 



large ; carpophore entire or bifid. Seed subterete, grooved on the inner face. 



DISTKIB. Species 2-3, Himalayan. 



Separable from Pimpinella only by the deeper groove on the inner face of the me- 

 ricarps as DC. states. 



1. V. coniifolia, DC. Prodr. iv. 243 ; ultimate segments of the leaves 

 linear, carpels ovate broadly grooved on the inner face. Sison ? coniifolium, 

 Wall. Cat. 591. Cheerophyllum gracillimum, Rlotzsch in Reis. Pr. Waldem. 

 Sot. 149, t. 46. Ligusticum ? meoides, Jacquem. Journ. 



HIMALAYA, alt. 6000-12,000 ft., from BALTISTAJ* and KASHMIR to NIPAL, 

 common. 



Stem 1-2 ft., ascending, divided, striate, sparingly leafy. Leaves usually 3-pin- 

 nate, ultimate segments linear or narrowly oblong-linear, acute. Peduncle 2-6 in. 

 Bract rarely exceeding ^ in., very rarely more than 1 or slightly divided ; primary 

 rays of the umbel 6-12, |-2 in., rigid, angularly striate ; bracteoles 3-6, often as long 

 as the umbellule. Fruit |- in., disc prominent, styles short. 



2. V. millefolia, C. B. Clarke ; ultimate segments of the leaves 

 setaceous, carpels oblong narrowly grooved on the inner face. Chaerophyllum 

 millefolium, Klotzsch in Reis. Pr. Waldem. Bot. 149, t. 45. 



KASHMIR ; Tragbol, alt. 11,400 ft., C. B. Clarke. ? NIPAL ; Hoffmeister. SIKXIM ; 

 Jongri, alt. 12,000-13,000 ft., C. B. Clarke. 



Stem 4-6 in., rarely 12 in. Cauline leaves 2-4 in., 2-3-4-pinnate, ultimate seg- 

 ments scarcely ~ in. Fruit i^ *2 in., oblong or narro w- oblong ; disc prominent; 

 styles short. United with V. coniifolia by Bentham (in Gen. PL i. 883), but the fruit 

 is very much smaller, less grooved on the inner face, and the leaves are much more 

 finely cut. 



3. V. ? Stewartii, C. B. Clarke; secondary pinnae of the cauline 

 leaves deeply cut into small narrow-lanceolate teeth, carpels plane on the inner 

 face, seed with a T-shaped groove on the inner face. 



G-URWHAL, alt. 6500 ft., Stewart. 



Bracts small or 0. Bracteoles linear, unequal, some overtopping the flowering 

 umbellules. Fruit (not quite ripe) | in., rather larger than that of V. coniifolia, 

 ridges obscure ; vittse in each furrow 3 -4, small. 



5. TRACHYDIUItt, Lindl. 



Perennial herbs, glabrous or minutely hirsute. Leaves 1- 2- or 3-pinnate. 

 Umbels compound, sometimes sessile, when the inflorescence appears to consist 

 of simple umbels on clustered long peduncles ; bracts several, foliaceous, lobed 

 or pinnate ; bracteoles 5-10, similar, often united at the base, sometimes 

 white membranous on the margins, often equalling the rays. Calyx-margin 

 obsolete or prominent, entire or nearly so. Petals white or pink, elliptic, sub- 

 acute, or emarginate by the greater or less inflexion of the apex. Fruit 

 ovoid or subquadrate, laterally subcompressed, slightly constricted at the com- 

 missure, smooth or tubercled ; carpels terete ; primary ridges distinct, sometimes 

 thickened, spongy, rugose or tubercled, lateral at the commissure j secondary 



