678 LIX. UMBELLIFER.E. (C. B. Clarke.) [Bupleurum. 



HIMALAYA ; from KASHMIR to SIKKIM, alt. 1-9000 ft. ; common in the West, and 

 in the lower hills, extending in the plains to Jullundur. 



. Stem 1-3 ft., solitary, erect, much branched upwards, usually with numerous 

 umbels. Lower leaves linear; oblong leaves usually with 5-9 somewhat distant pri- 

 mary nerves and numerous prominent reticulating secondary ones. Bracts 1-4, 

 -i in., lanceolate or obovate-lanceolate ; bracteoles 4-5, in., obovate-lanceolate, 

 often as long as the fruiting umbellule or longer ; rays 3-8, usually less than 1 in., 

 never stout ; pedicels rarely exceeding ^ i n - Fruit broadly oblong, yellowish brown ; 

 carpels terete ; vittse in each furrow solitary, sometimes obscure. Distinguished from 

 B. Candollii Var. minor by the delicate primary rays of the umbel and the much 

 smaller fruit. 



VAR. khasiana ; upper leaves linear or lanceolate acute or acuminate, bracts and 

 bracteoles narrow-lanceolate prominent, fruit rather longer. Khasia Mts., alt. 

 4000-6000 ft. ; common ; Tenasserim ; Martaban Hills, alt. 7000 ft., Kurz. Stem 

 often very bushy from the base, corymbosely dichotomous with ascending branches, 

 whereas in .B. tenue type there is a simple main stem with divaricate sub-horizontal 

 branches. Bracts often f in. ; bracteoles overtopping the fruits. This variety has 

 always been referred to B. tenue, Don, with which the fruit closely agrees ; it resembles 

 B. mucronatum, var. ramosissima in its leaves bracts and bracteoles, but differs in its 

 smaller, shorter pedicelled fruit. "We have not seen Martaban specimens, but as 

 Kurz (Journ. As. Soc. 1877, pt. ii. 114) gives tenue, Don, as a native, we assume he 

 alludes to this variety. 



12. B. IKCaddeni, C. S. Clarke ; cauline leaves small linear acuminate 

 narrowed at the base, bracteoles few not prominent, pedicels less than -^ i n v 

 fruit in. oblong strongly ridged, furrows 2-Q-vittate. Bupleurum No. 8, 

 Herb. 2nd. Or.H.f.fy T. 



NORTH-WEST HIMALAYA ; Mussoorie, Madden, Jameson ; Simla, Lady Dalhousie ; 

 Kunawur, alt. 6000-8000 ft,, Thomson. 



Stems 1-2 ft., several from the root, erect, simple below, with numerous leafy 

 branches upwards. Lower leaves linear, almost subulate; upper | 1^ in., scarcely 

 amplexicaul. Bracts 1-3, in., lanceolate, often ; bracteoles 3, less often 4-5, 

 in., lanceolate or linear, rays 5-8, less than in. Fruit broadly oblong, glaucous. 

 Thomson regarded this as a new species near B. ttnue, with which it agrees- in 

 having very small umbels with subsessile flowers, but it seems more closely allied to B. 

 falcatum, var. Hoffmeisteri, of which it may possibly be a depauperated mountain form. 



13. B. setaceum, Fend in Tchih. As. Min. i. 418 ; stem slender dif- 

 fusely dichotomously branched, leaves setaceous, umbels simple few-flowered 

 subracemed with capillary peduncles, fruit ~ in. ellipsoid, ridges distinct, fur- 

 rows 1-vittate. Boiss. Fl. Orient, ii. 847. 



KASHMIR, alt. 4500 ft. ; Kishtwar, C. B. Clarke ; Stewart. DISTRIB. Bithynia. 



Annual. Stem 18 in., erect, above divaricately branched. Cauline leaves 1-1^ in., 

 uppermost \ in., setaceous, 3-nerved. Peduncles \-\\ in., usually springing as 

 though from a bifurcation whereof one branch is arrested. Bracts 1-4, ^- in., 

 narrowly linear-lanceolate, usually longer than the fruiting umbel ; pedicels 1-4, 

 less than ~ in- Fruit obscurely transversely rugose between the ridges ; vittse 

 large, distinct, alternating with the ridges ; carpels terete, slightly pentagonal. 

 Identified with B. setaceum from Fenzl's description only. There are several closely 

 allied species perhaps not really distinct : B. trichopodum, Boiss. fy Sprun. (Boiss. Ft. 

 Orient, ii. 864) is much less compound, and the fruits have the furrows 3-vittate. 



8. AFXUX&, Linn. 



Herbs, annual or perennial, glabrous. Leaves pinnate, 3-partite, or com- 

 pound. Umbels compound, often leaf-opposed. Bracts and bracteoles (in 

 the Indian species). Flowers white. Calyx-teeth obsolete. Petals ovate, acute, 



