LXX, UMBELLiFEKjE. (C. B. Clarke.) 693 



18. SESELI, Linn. 



Herbs, glabrous or pubescent. Leaves 2 3-pinnate or twice 3-partite. 

 Umbels compound ; bracts few or many, undivided or pinnate ; bracteoles 

 several or many. Calyx-teeth minute, lanceolate or linear, or 0. Petals 

 emarginate, white. Fruit oblong ovate or circular, not laterally compressed, 

 broadest at the commissure ; carpels ^-terete or (in S. trilobum} much dorsally 

 compressed ; inner face plane or (in S. trilobum) concave ; ridges strong, 

 obtuse or subacute, lateral hardly larger than the dorsal ; vittse in each furrow 

 solitary, usually prominent ; carpophore 2-partite, 2-fid or entire ; disc not 

 prominent on the fruit. Seed ^-terete ; in S. trilobum dorsally compressed, 

 inner face excavated. DISTRIB. Species 40 j in the N. temperate zone of the 

 Old World; with 2 doubtful Australian. 



1. S. sibiricum, Benth. in Gen. PL i. 901; lower leaves 2-pinnate 

 secondary pinnae large ovate toothed and pinnatifid sessile or decurrent, calyx- 

 teeth triangular minute deciduous, fruit cylindric villous. Boiss. Fl. Orient. 

 ii. 967. 



WEST TIBET; Falconer. KASHMIR; Jacquemont. Kishtwar, alt. 7000-8000 ft., 

 Thomson. DISTBIB. Asia, Eussia. 



Minutely pubescent or nearly glabrous, 2-4 ft. Lower leaves often 1 ft., upper 

 often pinnate; pinnae somewhat firm in texture, subspinulose, secondary 1-2 in. 

 Bracts usually or 1; in the Siberian examples sometimes many; rays 15-40, 

 l-2 in., pubescent; bracteoles 5-10, ^ in. lanceolate; pedicels 10-25, - in. 

 Young fruit | in., densely villous, in age less so ; carpels ^-terete, dorsally com- 

 pressed, inner face plane ; epicarp somewhat thickened, ridges strong, subequal, 

 vittse large; carpophore slender, 2-partite. Seed plane on the inner face. 



2. S. indicum, W. fy A. Prodr. 371 ; lower leaves 2-pinnate secondary 

 pinnse ovate lobed pubescent, calyx-teeth 0, fruit subglobose ridges thick. Oni- 

 dium diffusum, DC. Prodr. iv. 153 ; Wight Ic. t. 569. Athamantha diffusa, 

 Wall. Cat. 570. Ligusticum indicum, Wall. Cat. 7215. L. diffusum, Roxb. 

 Hort. Beng. 21, Fl. 2nd. ii. 92. 



Plains of INDIA ; from the foot of the SIWALIKS to ASSAM and COBOMANDEL ; fre- 

 quent in CENTRAL BENGAL. 



Annual, erect or diffuse, 4-12 in., often much branched. Leaves all similarly cut, 

 upper without linear segments. Bracts 4-5, f in., narrowly lanceolate, caudate, 

 pubescent ; rays 8-16, |-1 in. ; bracteoles like the bracts but rather smaller; pedicels 

 8-16, in. Flowers white or pinkish. Fruit jV-^o i n - (i n Roxburgh's drawing 

 copied in Wight Ic. t. 569) glabrous; in Wall. Cat. 7215, and W. $ A. Prodr. 371, 

 very hirsute (and hardly half as large) ; hairs often clubbed or substellate at the 

 apex ; carpels ^-terete ; vittse distinct ; carpophore entire. There are examples with 

 fruit intermediate between the two extreme types above described. 



3. S. daucifolium, C. B. Clarke; leaves 2-3-pinnate ultimate seg- 

 ments linear or narrowly lanceolate, bracts many often divided, fruit globose 

 glabrous. Ammi daucifolium, Wall. Cat. 7209. Discopleura sp., Benth. in 

 Gen. PI. i. 907. 



East BENGAL ; from BHOTAN and ASSAM to DACCA and CHITTAGONG ; Wallich, &c. 

 DISTBIB. China. 



Annual, erect, 8-16 in., glabrous or nearly so, very leafy upwards. Margin of the 

 leaves minutely serrulate. Peduncles often leaf-opposed, short, stout; bracts |-| in., 

 sometimes pinnate; rays 8-16, usually shorter than the bracts; bracteoles 6-12, 

 % in., linear; pedicels 10-25, - in. Calyx-teeth 0. Petals white or pinkish. 



