688 LXX. UMBELLIFER^. (C. B. Clarke.) [Pimpinella. 



Dalz. 8f Gibs. Bomb. Fl 106. Helosciadium Wallichianum, Miq. in PL 

 Hohenack. No. 633. Pimpinella sp. 10, Herb. Ind. Or. H.f. $ T. 



MTS. of MALABAR and the SOUTH DECCAN ; Wight, &c. 



Minutely pubescent or nearly glabrous. Stem 7-8 ft. (Dalzell), much divided 

 upwards. Leaflets 2-3 by 1-2 in., sharply serrate ; petiolules ^-2 in. ; upper leaves 

 often much reduced, cut into setaceous linear segments. Bracts 0, rarely 1 linear ; 

 rays 6-12, -l in.; bracteoles 1-3, in., linear, or more often 0; pedicels 8-20, 

 outer 5- in. male, inner -| in. hermaphrodite. Fruit ^ in., subdidymous, scarcely 

 acute ; carpels ^ terete, inner face plane ; ridges obscure, furrows 2-vittate ; disc not 

 prominent; carpophore entire, or very shortly 2-fid. 



16. P. diversifolia, DC. Prodr.iv. 122; cauline leaves entire 3-partite 

 or sub-2-pinnate leaflets ovate or cordate-lanceolate pubescent, fruit ovate nar- 

 rowed upwards hispidulous papillose-rugose or finally nearly glabrous. P. pu- 

 bescens, Wall. Cat. 567, P. trifoliata, Wall. Cat. 565. P. sinica, Hance in 

 Seem. Journ. Sot. 1868, 113. Helosciadium ? trjfoliatum and pubescens, DC. 

 Prodr. iv. 106. 



Throughout the HIMALAYA, alt. 4-10,000 ft., very common. KHASIA MTS. alt. 

 3-6000 ft., common. DISTEIB. China. 



Villous, subtomentose, or scarcely pubescent. Stem 2-5 ft., corymbose upwards. 

 Radical and lower cauline leaves often round-ovate ; cauline often with 3-5-leaflets, 

 or twice 3-partite or sub-2-pinnate ; segments of the uppermost narrower, occasion- 

 ally almost linear ; leaflets usually 1-3 by -1 in., serrate, sometimes laciniate or 

 subpinnatifid. Bracts 0, or 1-2, \-% in., linear; rays 6-16, i-l in., sometimes 

 villous, never quite glabrous; bracteoles 8-3, in., or 0; pedicels 8-16, ^ in., 

 all fruiting. Petals emarginate, white greenish or lurid. Fruit ^-^ in., laterally 

 compressed, ridges never prominent sometimes quite obscure, furrows 2-3-vittate ; 

 disc not prominent; carpels ^-terete, scarcely subpentagonal, dorsally subcom- 

 pressed, inner face plane. A common and variable plant ; the north-west examples 

 frequently have the peduncles rays and fruits very villous and the leaves glabrous 

 above. The Khasiari have deeply cordate leaflets and papillose-rugose fruit : from 

 these P. monoica Dalz. differs only by the minute fruits and the barren outer pedicels. 



VAB. 1 . alpina petals ovate acute plane, young ovary glabrous, fruit shining yel- 

 low-brown glabrous much attenuated upwards. P. trifoliata, Wall. Cat. 565 (type 

 specimen). Sikkim, alt. 9-10,000 ft. Rays of the umbel pubescent. 



VAB. 2. divisa ; lower cauline leaves pinnate and 2-pinnatifid, young fruit terete 

 clavate upwards, disc yellow-brown. Pimpinella sp. 5 Herb. Ind. Or. H. f. fy T. 

 Kashmir and Kistwar, alt. 7000-8000 ft., Thomson. Probably a new species but 

 there is no ripe fruit. 



17. P. Stracheyi, C. B. Clarke-, leaves simple and 3-partite leaflets 

 ovate pubescent, fruit oblong narrowed at both ends, style-bases cylindric apex 

 conical. Pimpinella sp. 3, Herb. Ind. Or. H.f. $ T. 



KUMAON; Dhauli River, Samangentha, alt. 7500 ft., Strachey $ Winterbottom. 



Generally resembling P. diversifolia on a small scale ; stems 6-1 6 in., grey- villous, 

 as the Kumaon examples of P. diversifolia generally are. Fruit ^ in. ; carpels terete, 

 ridges slender, furrows 2-vittate. Young ovary villous. Fruit ultimately glabres- 

 cent shining yellow-brown. Nearly allied to No. 22, P. ccespitosa. 



18. ? P. Parishiana, Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. 1872, pt. ii. 309, and 

 1877, pt. ii. 115 ; leaves pinnate or 2-3-partite leaflets ovate acute serrate or 

 laciniate, bracts 2-5 almost sheathing the rays, ovary minutely pubescent. 



MOULMEIN, and MARTABAN, Kurz on the Zwabakin ; Parish. 



Habit of P. diversifolia, much divided and very leafy upwards. Leaflets 1-2 by 



