ChcBrophyllum.~\ LXX. UMBELLIFERZE. (C. B. Clarke.) 691 







the lower ultimate segments small, fruit oblong scarcely beaked. DC Prodr 

 iv. 225. 



HIMALAYA, from KASHMIR to SIKKIM ; alt. 5000-12,000 ft., frequent. KHASIA 

 MTS., alt. 4000-6000 ft., frequent. 



Root fusiform. Stem 1-4 feet, erect, branched, always hispid below, often hairv 

 upward. Leaves large, secondary pinnae of the upper pinnate or pinnatifid, ultimate 

 segments scarce in., with 2-4 lanceolate~teeth, often with scattered hairs ; segments 

 of the lowest often 1-3 by 1 in. pinnatifid scarcely half-way down; upper sheaths 

 usually inflated, hairy, with prominent white margins. Bracts ; rays 3-6, 1-3 in., 

 stout ; bracteoles 2-5, ^-| in., linear, often white margined, soon reflexed ; pedicels 

 10-15, often 3-8 fruiting. Fruit in., equally broad its whole length, narrowed 

 somewhat suddenly at .the tip. 



2. C. reflexum, Lindl. in Royle HI. 232: glabrous or very sparsely 

 pilose, upper leaves 2-pinnate more finely divided than the lower ultimate seg- 

 ments small, fruit oblong narrowed into a thick cylindric beak. C. villosum. 

 Wall. Cat. 558 in part. 



North-west HIMALAYA ; from DALHOTJSIE to KUMAON ; alt. 5000-9000 ft., frequent. 



Much less hairy than C. villosum, the fruit larger, and usually 1 (sometimes 2-3), 

 ripen in each umbellule ; pedicels of the other flowers being reflexed, as sometimes 

 in a much less degree in C. villosum. Fruit ^- in., beak | in. ; vittae of the com- 

 missure 2, in the narrow part of the groove. 



3. C. acuminatum, Lindl. in Royle HI. 232; more or less hairy, 

 upper leaves 1-2-pinnate pinnae large oblong closely regularly falcate-serrate, 

 fruit oblong narrowed close under the style-bases. 



HIMALAYA from KASHMIR to KTJMAON ; alt. 5000-9000 ft., frequent. 



Stem 2-4 ft., usually with some long white hairs. Lower leaves often with ulti- 

 mate pinnae 2 by in., oblong, acute, upper reduced with narrower segments. 

 Umbels bracts bracteoles and fruit much resembling those of C. villosum ; petals 

 somewhat larger, often somewhat radiant ; fruits smaller (| in.) fewer (often 2-3) to 

 the umbellule. Closely allied to C. villosum, though very different in the cutting of 

 the leaves. Lindley puts it next C. aromaticum, Jacq., but it more resembles C. 

 aureum, Linn. 



4. C. capnoides, JBenth. in Gen. PI. i. 898 ; root tuberous, leaves 1-2- 

 pinnate ultimate segments oblong entire, fruit oblong-lanceolate vittse 0. 

 Butinia capnoides, Dene, in Jacquem. Voy. Sot. 70, t. 80. 



KASHMIR; Jacquemont. KISHTWAR and BANAHAL ; alt. 6000-8000 ft., Thomson. 



Nearly glabrous. Stem 12-24 in. Leaves 4-8 in., lax, ovate ; ultimate segments 

 4~f by - in., undulate, mucronate. Bracts ; rays 4-8, l-3 in., stout ; brac- 

 teoles 4-7, e" i n " lanceolate ; pedicels 6-12, -1 in., most of them fruiting. Fruit \ 

 in., black, minutely punctate, very much constricted at the commissure, narrowed 

 upwards, scarcely beaked ; style- bases narrow, conical ; carpels subtrapezoid from the 

 extreme narrowing of the inner face ; furrows subconcave, epicarp thin, no trace of 

 vittae. The Algerian Balans&a Fontanesii, Boiss. & Keut., said hardly to differ from 

 this by Benth., /. <?., apart from the crenate lobed leaflets, the large style-bases, and 

 other prominent specific marks, has the fruits broadly grooved on the very wide com- 

 missure, and has large vittae. 



5. C. cachemiricum, C. JB. Clarke', upper leaves sub-2-pinnate secondary 

 pinnae oblong deeply toothed or subpinnatifid, fruit oblong-lanceolate, ridges 

 obscure. 



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