680 LXX. UMBELLIFEE^E. (C. B. Clarke.) \Piturantlws. 



Eriocycla. Lindley (Gen.). Stem and leaves pubescent. Disc 

 conical, very prominent. Styles long-, early divergent, recurved. Ovary and 

 young fruit densely hairy. Fruit oblong, much longer than broad. 



1. P. xmda, Benth. in Gen. PL i. 890; much branched upwards with vir- 

 gate almost naked branches, umbels long-peduncled, rays 3-6, fruit scarcely 

 laterally compressed. Eriocycla nuda, Lindl. in Royle 111. 232, t. 51. 



NORTH-WEST HIMALAYA; Kunawur, alt. 10,000-11,000 ft., Boyle, T. Thomson? 

 Jacquemont. 



Stem 2-3 ft., glabrescent upwards. Lower cauline leaves 2-pinnate, ultimate seg- 

 ments ^ in., oblong, lobed and toothed ; upper much reduced, often to oblong acute 

 sheaths \ in. Bracts 1-5, in; bracteoles 5-10, -^-\ in., linear; rays 1-4 in.; 

 pedicels 8-12, j~- in., obscurely pubescent. Fruit in., at first densely hairy, 

 ultimately much less so ; carpels oblong, narrower upwards ; lateral primary ridges 

 marginal. 



2. P. Thomson!, C. B. Clarke ; stem with many lateral branches and 

 umbels, rays 4-8. fruit much laterally compressed. Eriocycla sp. ? 2. Herb. Ind. 

 Or. H.f. $ T. 



WEST TIBET; Piti, alt." 10,000-12,000 ft., Thomson. HIMALAYA; Jacquemont. 



Stem 1218 in., grey-pubescent. Lower cauline leaves 2-pinnate ; ultimate seg- 

 ments f in., ovate, deeply pinnatifid, toothed ; upper leaves greatly reduced. Umbels 

 long- or short-peduncled, sometimes sessile ; bracts 4-8, ^ in., linear ; rays |-H in., 

 pubescent, subtomentose ; bracteoles and pedicels much" as in P. nuda, but "more 

 hairy. Fruit in. ; carpels oblong, hardly narrowed upwards ; lateral primary 

 ridges within the distinctly constricted commissure. 



11. CAEiUHX, Linn. 



Herbs, perennial or annual. Leaves pinnate, or decompound. Umbels 

 compound ; bracts few or many, simple or rarely divided ; bracteoles several or . 

 many, undivided. Flowers white (in Indian species), polygamous, sterile 

 flowers often with enlarged or irregular petals. Calyx-teeth small, or 0. 

 Petals retuse or emarginate. Fruit ovoid ellipsoid or oblong, laterally com- 

 pressed and more or less constricted at the commissure ; carpels terete, sub- 

 pentagonal, plane on the inner face ; primary ridges slender, conspicuous or 

 obscure, lateral commissural ; furrows 1-vittate ; carpophore 2-fid or 2-partite. 

 Seed terete, dorsally subcompressed, plane or obscurely channelled on the inner 

 face. DISTRLB. Species 50 in Europe, Temperate Asia, S. Africa and N. 

 America. 



This genus as modelled by Mr. Bentham differs from Pimpinella in its solitary 

 vittse, from Seseli by the fruit being more or less constricted at the commissure. (See 

 Pimpinella ccespitosa which has solitary vittse.) 



* Fruit glabrous or very nearly so. 



1. C. Carui, Linn. ; DC. Prodr. iv. 115 ; ultimate segments of the lower 

 leaves lanceolate, of the upper linear, bracteoles small linear or 0, fruit elliptic- 

 oblong. Boiss. Fl. Orient, ii. 879. 



BALTISTAN, KASHMIR and GURWHAL, alt, 9000-12,000 ft., Eoyle, &c. DISTRIB. W. 

 and N. Asia, Europe (often cultivated). 



Glabrous. Stem 1-3 ft., branched, erect or diffuse. Leaves 2-pinnate, finely dis- 

 sected ; ultimate segments of the lower leaves -|- in., of the upper -1 in. Bracts 

 1-3, small, linear, or 0, rarely divided ; rays 3-8, -2 in., unequal ; pedicels 3-8,. 



