692 LXX. UMBELLIFERZE. (C. B. Clarke.) [CJwerophyllum . 



NORTH- -WEST HIMALAYAS ; Dalhousie, alt. 7000 ft. ; C. B. Clarke. 



Stem 2-3 ft., hispid with reflexed hairs. Bracts 0; rays 5-8, -1 in.; brae- 

 teoles 1-4, in., linear, obscure; pedicels 12, the central alone fruiting. Fruit in.; 

 carpels terete ; ridges so obscure that the species should perhaps be referred to 

 Anthriscus; furrows 1-vittate, no vittse in the groove. 



VAR. diisecta ; glabrous, leaves 3-pinnate finely cut, fruit nearly % in. sometimes 

 2 to the umbellule. Kashmir, Sind Valley, alt. 12,000 ft., C. B. Clarke. Rays longer 

 and stouter than in the type. Perhaps a distinct species, but the fruit closely agrees 

 with that of C. cachemiricum except that it is a little larger. 



16. SCANDXX, Linn. 



Annual herbs. Leaves pinnately decompound, ultimate segments small, 

 narrow. Umbels compound or simple ; bracts 1 or 0, bracteoles several. 

 Flowers white, polygamous, often radiant. Calyx-teeth 0, or minute. Petals 

 emarginate. Fruit oblong, laterally compressed, beak many times longer than 

 the seed ; carpels terete or dorsally subcompressed, with a T-shaped groove 

 on the inner face ; primary ridges distinct, broad or narrow, secondary ; 

 vittse solitary in each furrow, slender, or ; carpophore undivided or 2-fid. 

 Seed terete, dorsally subcompressed. DISTBIB. Species 10; all northern, mostly 

 Mediterranean. 



1. S. Pecten-veneris, Linn. ; DC. Prodr. iv. 221 ; bracteoles lan- 

 ceolate often incised or lobed at the apex, beak of the fruit dorsally compressed 

 hispidulous on the margins, fruit 1-2 in. Boiss. Fl. Orient, ii. 914. 



KASHMIR; alt. 5000-6000 ft., Falconer, Thomson. ' PUNJAB; Salt Hills, Cleghorn, 

 Aitckison, Jameson. DISTRIB. Cabul to Western Europe. 



Stem 6-12 in., glabrous or pilose as are the leaves. Umbels simple or compound, 

 short-peduncled ; bracteoles \ in., lanceolate, pubescent or ciliate ; pedicels 3-8, 

 hardly ^ in. in fruit. Beak of fruit twice as long as the seed ; ridges broad, 

 obtuse. 



17. ANTHRISCUS. Boffin. 



Herbs. Leaves 2-3-pinnate, ultimate segments pinnatifid or toothed, often 

 broad. Umbels compound ; bracts 1-2 or ; bracteoles several, undivided. 

 Flowers white, often polygamous. Calyx-teeth 0, or minute. Petals emargi- 

 nate. Fruit oblong or ovate-oblong, narrowed shortly at the apex, laterally 

 compressed, constricted at the commissure ; often scabrous ; carpels terete or 

 dorsally subcompressed, with a "p"S na ped groove on the inner face ; primary 

 ridges not prominent, vittae solitary in each furrow, minute, or ; carpophore 

 undivided or 2-fid. Seed terete, dorsally subcompressed. DISTRIB. Species 

 10, the north temperate regions of the Old World, 1 extending to North-west 

 America. 



1. A. nemorosa, Spreng. PL Umb. Prodr. 27 ; rays 10-15 stout glabrous, 

 bracteoles 5-7 lanceolate pubescent, fruit ovate-oblong clothed with ascending 

 hispid hairs. DC. Prodr. iv. 223 ; Sous. FL Orient, ii. 911. 



KASHMIR, alt. 7000-11,000 ft.; plentiful. DISTRIB. N. Asia to E.Europe. 



Stem 5-8 ft., sparingly hairy. Leaves large with large pinnae and segments, 

 glabrous, or pubescent beneath. Bracteoles ^ in. Flowers often radiant. Fruits 

 % in., numerous in each umbellule, black, minutely puncticulate as well as promi- 

 nently hispid, ridges acute at the apex. 



