684 LXX. UMBELLIFERJ:. (C. B. Clarke.) [Swm. 



same genus as the true S. lancifolium in which the fruits are much smaller the ridges 

 slender with broad 3-vittate furrows. S. nipponicum, Maxim, in Bull. Acad. Petersb. 

 Mel. Biol. ix. 766, is very near S. latijugum, but its calyx-teeth are manifest, and there 

 are vittse scattered under the ridges besides the subsolitary vittse in the furrows. In 

 S. multijugum the lateral ridges are rather larger than the others, and form with 

 the commissure a wide plane face, there are 2 vittse only on the commissure close to 

 its medial line. The 4 vittae on the outer faces of the carpels are large, exactly 

 occupying the furrows. The seed is very accurately terete. 



13. PIMPINELLA, Linn. 



Herbs, Triennial or perennial. Leaves 1-2-pinnate or 1-2-ternate or decom- 

 pound, rarely undivided, toothed. Umbels compound ; bracts few or ; 

 bracteoles usually linear, sometimes 0. Flowers hermaphrodite or polygamo- 

 moncecious. Calyx-teeth or small, lanceolate. Petals usually emarginate, 

 ovate acute or lanceolate caudate. Fruit laterally compressed, usually con- 

 stricted at the commissure, ovate or ovate-oblong or narrow-oblong ; carpels 

 terete or subpentagonal, often dorsally compressed, plane on the inner face ; 

 ridges slender, obscure or prominent ; furrows 2-3-vittate (in P. ccespitosa 1- 

 vittate) ; carpophore entire 2-fid or 2-partite. Seed terete, ^-terete or dorsally 

 subcompressed, inner face plane or nearly so. DISTEIB. Species 70, in the 

 northern hemisphere, with a few in S. Africa and S. America. 



* Fruit glabrous or very nearly so. (See also No. 16, P. diversifolia, var. 

 alpina). 



1. P. achilleifolia, C. S. Clarke ; glabrous, lower cauline leaves 3-4- 

 pinnate ultimate segments linear-lanceolate, bracts 1-5 | | in. linear, rays 6-10. 

 Athamanta achilleifolia, Wall. Cat. 568. Ptychotis achilleifolia, DC. Prodr. 

 iv. 109. 



Temperate and subalpine HIMALAYA, Wallich, &c. ; from KUMAON ; Naini Tal, 

 alt. 8500 ft., Str. and Wlnt. ; to SIKKIM; Jongri, 13.000 ft., C. B. Clarke. 



Stem 3-4 ft., erect, corymbose upwards, with long peduncles. Quaternary pinna 

 ^-f in,, often 3-furcate, somewhat rigid, upper leaves reduced, sometimes almost to 

 the inflated sheaths. Bracteoles 4-6, in., linear ; rays ^-2^ in. ; pedicels 8-20, 

 T-Z in. Fruit ~ in,, elliptic, oblong, glabrous, laterally compressed, ridges distinct, 

 furrows 2-3-vittate; disc conical, prominent. 



2. P. nervosa, C. JB. Clarke ; cauline leaves twice 3-partite secondary 

 pinnae 1-2 in. broadly lanceolate serrate nerves beneath much elevated mi- 

 nutely scabrid. 



KHASIA MTS. ; Nonkreem, alt. 5500 ft., H.f. $ T. 



Nearly glabrous. Stem 2-3 ft., stout. Peduncles 1-6 in. Bracts 0; rays 6-12, 

 1-2^ in. ; bracteoles 3-8, linear, overtopping the umbellules. Flowers all herma- 

 phrodite. Calyx-limb 0. Petals emarginate, white or purplish. Styles short. Fruit 

 g- in., crowned by short conic style-bases, glabrous ; carpels subpentagonal, dorsally 

 subcompressed; ridges distinct, furrows 2-1-vittate. This from its coarse habit and 

 foliage may be an J&gofodium, but there are small vittse in the unripe fruit. 



3. P. 2eyneana, Wall. Cat. 566 ; lower cauline leaves 3-partite or 

 twice or thrice 3-partite, ultimate segments ovate or ovate-lanceolate narrowed 

 at the base, fruit didymous broader than long. Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. 1877, 

 pt. ii. 115. Helosciadium ? Heyneanum, DC. Prodr. iv. 106 ; W. % A. Prodr. 

 368 ; Dalz. $ Gibs. Bomb. Ft, 106. Slum triternatum, Moon Cat. 22. Seseli 



