690 LXX. UMBELLiFERa;. (C. B. Clarke.) [Pimpinella. 



large, subglobose on the young fruit ; carpels ^-terete, dorsally compressed ; ridges 

 obscure ; furrows 1-vittate on the few fruits available. Strach. & Wint. suggest 

 that this is the Thaspium foliosum, Koyle. 



14. OSBXOIRRHXZA, DC. 



Perennial herbs. Leaves twice 3-partite or sub-2-pinnate, ultimate segments 

 large. Umbels compound, very lax ; bracts few narrow, or ; bracteoles much 

 shorter than the pedicels. Calyx-teeth obsolete. Petals emarginate, white. 

 Fruit linear-oblong, long-attenuate at. base; laterally compressed, somewhat 

 constricted at the commissure ; carpels terete, subpentagonal, grooved on the 

 inner face ; primary ridges slender, distinct, secondary ; furrows 2-3-vittate ; 

 carpophore slender, 2-fid. Seed ^-terete, dorsally subcompressed, inner face 

 grooved. DISTEIB. Species 4, North Asia, Japan, North America, Andes. 



1. O. Claytoni, C. B. Clarke; leaves pubescent, bracts 1-5, fruit hispid 

 below with erect adpressed bristles. O. brevistylis, DC. Prodr. iv. 232 ; Royle 

 III. p. 233. O. longistylis, DC. I. c. 232. O. laxa, Royle El. 233 t. 52. 



NORTH- WEST HIMALAYA, from KASHMIR to KTTMAON, alt. 5000-8000 ft., frequent. 

 DISTBEB. N.E. Asia, Japan, temperate N. America. 



Eootstock not tuberous. Stem 2-5 ft. Leaves large, ovate; ultimate segments 

 1-2 in. coarsely toothed, sometimes larger and pinnatifid. Bracts ^ in., linear; 

 rays 3-6, 1-4 in.; bracteoles 4-6, % in., lanceolate; fruiting pedicels 3-6, -li in.; 

 several other short abortive pedicels indicate male" flowers. Fruit f by 3^-^ in., 

 rather suddenly narrowed into conical style-bases ; styles in fruit variable in length. 

 The Japanese examples have the pinnae more pinnate, the Himalayan have the 

 pinnae generally 3 -partite: the length of styles cannot be invariably connected with 

 any other character, geographical or morphological. 



15. CHJEROPHYLLUIVI, Linn. 



Herbs, glabrous or hairy. Leaves pinnately decompound, or 2-pinnate with 

 pinnatifid pinnules. Umbels compound; bracts 1-2, linear, or 0; bracteoles 

 3-6, lanceolate, or linear, or 0. Flowers white, usually polygamous ; the 

 central subsessile fertile, others pedicelled male or hermaphrodite. Calyx-teeth 

 obsolete (Indian species). Petals emarginate. Fruit oblong, narrowed up- 

 wards, glabrous (in the Indian species), laterally compressed, narrowed at the 

 commissure ; primary ridges broad, obtuse, prominent (in C. cachemiricum 

 obscure) ; furrows 1-vittate (or vittae in C. capnoides) ; carpels terete, inner 

 face with a deep T-shaped groove ; carpophore stout, undivided or shortly 2-fid ; 

 disc not prominent on the fruit. Seed terete, inner face with a deep narrow 

 groove, widened into a hollow in the centre of the seed. DISTKIB. Species 

 30 ; in temperate regions. 



Technically separated from Anthriscus by the more prominent ridges of the fruit. 

 As regards the Indian species, the only one referred to Anthriscus is easily dis- 

 tinguished by the very scabrid fruit. 



1. C. villosum, Wall. Cat. 558 chiefly; stem with many long deflexed 

 white hairs especially below, upper leaves 2-3-pinnate more finely divided than 



