694 LXX. UMBELLiFERj). (C. B. Clarke.) \_8eseli. 



Fruit much like 8. indicum but smaller and quite glabrous; ridges subequal. 

 Mr. Bentham did not possess -well-ripened fruit when he referred this species to 

 Discopleura. Hance referred the Chinese examples doubtfully to Cnidium Monnieri, 

 Cuss. ; DC. Prodr. iv. 152 ; to which Seseli daucifolium bears a general resemblance ; 

 but it is more leafy upwards with short peduncles, and the fruit is much smaller 

 and not dorsally compressed. 



4. S. trilobum, Benth. in Gen. PI. i. 901 ; lower leaves 2-pinnate or 

 twice 3-partite, secondary pinnae ovate lobed petioluled villous or tomentose 

 beneath, calyx-teeth subulate minute deciduous, fruit ovate acute villous. Sca- 

 phespermum trilobum, Edgw. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xx. 58. 



North-West Himalaya; NITI, alt. 8000-10,000 ft., Edgeworth. GURWHAL, Fal- 

 coner. KUMAON ; Millem, alt. 11,000 ft., Strachey $ Winterbottom. 



Stem 8-24 in., villous and little leafy upwards. Leaves minutely pubescent above ; 

 secondary pinnae -f in., crenate-serrate or irregularly lobed. Bracts 3-5, ^ in.; 

 rays 5-10, 1-2 in.; bracteoles 5-8, -| in., linear; pedicels 10-20, - in. Fruit 

 ^ in., but little longer than broad; carpels convexo-concave, much dorsally com- 

 pressed ; ridges strongly marked, subequal, vittae prominent ; carpophore deeply 

 2-fid. Seed excavated on the inner face, differing thus from all other species of 

 Seseli. Perhaps a Pycnocycla. 



19. PYCNOCYCLA, Lindl. 



Perennial herbs ; branches rush-like, few-leaved. Leaves pinnately dissected, 

 ultimate segments narrow. Rays of the umbels very short ; bracts and bracteoles 

 many, small ; umbellules containing one central sessile fertile flower, and 

 several pedicelled males. Calyx-tube hairy ; teeth small, lanceolate, often 

 unequal. Petals obovate, emarginate, hairy. Fruit oblong-lanceolate, hairy, 

 terete (one carpel is frequently aborted), surrounded by the inflated pedicels of 

 the barren flowers, receptacle not (or very obscurely) enlarged ; carpophore ; 

 carpels ^-terete, inner face deeply grooved; primary ridges filiform, minute, 

 lateral at the margin of the broad commissure ; vittae numerous, very slender, 

 usually 1 under each primary ridge and several still more minute scattered 

 in the endocarp. Seed lunate or with a T-shaped groove on the inner face. 

 DISTKIB. Species 7, in N.E. Africa and "W. and Central Asia. 



"Whether one or more flowers in each umbellule perfect seed is hardly a character 

 of generic importance in this order, as may be seen in Chcerophyllum, wherein C. re- 

 flexum is hardly separable specifically from C. villosum. If this point be with- 

 drawn from the generic character of Pycnocycla, it will include Seseli trilobum, 

 Benth. 



1. P. glauca, Lindl. in Royle III. 232, t. 51 ; branches slightly pubes- 

 cent, ultimate segments of the leaves long-linear subterete, umbels on long pu- 

 bescent peduncles. Hiern in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. iii. 8. P. abyssinica, Hochst. ; 

 A. Rich. Fl. Abyss, i. 333. 



NORTH-WEST INDIA, Royle ; Sutledge banks, Falconer. JTJBBULPORE ; Beddome. 

 SATPTJRA HILLS, G. Thomson. DISTRIB. Abyssinia. 



Branched from the base, 1-2 ft. ; branches terete, striate, subglaucous. Kadical 

 leaves long-petioled, pinnately dissected ; segments remote, glabrous or nearly so ; 

 cauline similar, but smaller more shortly petioled. Umbels in flower % in. diam., 

 resembling those of a Scabiosa ; bracts 5-6, in., oblong-linear or linear, hairy ; 

 bracteoles similar but smaller ; rays ^ in., hairy ; pedicels hairy. Flowers in the 

 umbellule about 9 ; petals white, with reddish midrib, hairy. Fruit % by ^ in. ; 

 carpel with a "["" s h a P e d groove on the inner face. Beddome's examples have the two 

 carpels producing perfect and similar seeds. 



