700 LXX. UMBELLTFER^;. (C. B. Clarke.) [Selimmt. 



referred to any Indian Selinum. . Wallich must have distributed two plants mixed 

 under one name in this as in so many other cases. 



2. S. tenuifolium, Wall. Cat. 579, chiefly; ultimate pinnae in. broad- 

 elliptic pinnatifid deeply into narrow lanceolate acute segments, fruit | in. much, 

 dorsally compressed, lateral ridges much the broadest, dorsal furrows 1-vittate 

 lateral 2-3-vittate, seed 4-6 times as broad as thick. S. Candollii, Edgw. in 

 Trans. Linn. Soc. xx. 55, not of DC. Peucedanum Wallichianum, DC. Prodr. 

 iv. 181. Pleurospermum cicutarium, Lindl. in Royle III. 233. Oreocome 

 Candolliana, Edgw. I. c. 



Himalaya; alt. 6000-13,000 ft., from KASHMIR to BHOTAN, very common. 



Stem 2-6 ft. Lower leaves often 1 ft., in outline ovate, usually 3-pinnate, ter- 

 tiary pinnae 1-2 -pinnatifid, glabrous or pubescent; upper leaves reduced, sheath 

 often as long as the petiole. Bracts 4-8, f-l in., linear, often toothed or slightly 

 lobed, rarely pinnate ; rays generally villous ; bracteoles 5-12, often longer than the 

 umbellule, white-margined, often lobed rarely pinnate or 2-pinnatifid. Calyx-teeth 

 linear; carpels slightly elliptic, longer than broad; dorsally compressed, subcom- 

 planate, 3 dorsal ridges approximate, often hardly elevated (whence DC. considered 

 the plant a Peucedanum) ; commissural vittae 4-6, distant from the medial line. Seed 

 complanate, inner face plane or subconvex. 



VAR. 1. filicifolia ; quaternary pinnae pinnatifid into more remote lobes. Oreocome 

 filicifolia, Edgw. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xx. 55. ? Laserpitium coniifolium, Wall. 

 Cat. 584. Kashmir and N.W. Himalaya, alt. 6000-10,000 ft., frequent. Wallich's 

 L. coniifolium is without fruit and the leaves appear to belong to two species. 

 Ligusticum coniifolium, DC. Prodr. iv. 158, from -the description appears the same 

 plant; DC. says that the furrows are multi-vittate ; referring probably to the lateral 

 ones, which have 2-4 vittse. 



VAK. 2. elata ; quaternary pinnae -1 in. broad- elliptic, fruit \ in. much dorsally 

 compressed, dorsal and intermediate ridges distinctly winged, but less so than the 

 lateral, dorsal furrows 1-vittate, lateral 2-3-vittate, seed 4 times as broad as thick. 

 Oreocome elata, Edgw. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xx. 54. North-west Himalaya, alt. 6000- 

 10,000 ft.; from Kashmir to Kumaon; frequent. This seems to differ from S. tenui- 

 folium in the winged 3 dorsal ridges : the fruit also is somewhat larger. As regards 

 Edgeworth's main character of ' primary pinnae of the upper leaves sessile at the 

 apex of the sheath," it is common to S. tenuifolium and most other Indian species. 



3. S. Candollii, DC. Prodr. iv. 165 ; quaternary pinnae -f in. broad- 

 elliptic pinnatifid deeply into narrow-lanceolate acute segments, fruit \ in. 

 somewhat dorsally compressed, ridges all distinctly subequally winged, furrows 

 all 1-vittate, seed 2 times as broad as thick. Angelica ? Candollii, Watt. Cat. 

 582. 



KASHMIR; alt. 7000-8000 ft., Thomson. NIPAL and KUMAON ; Wallich. SIKKIM ; 

 alt. 12,000 ft., C. B. Clarke. 



Stem, leaves, bracts and umbels generally like S. tenuifolium, but the fruit very 

 distinct. Fruit subquadrate, loqger than broad ; 3 dorsal ridges approximate ; mtt& 

 in the lateral furrows solitary, but twice as broad as the dorsal, commissural 2, thici, 

 somewhat widely separated. Seed convexo-concave, margins obtuse. 



4. S. vag-inatum, C. S. Clarke ; secondary pinnae mostly 1 in. lanceo- 

 late serrate scarcely lobed or pinnatifid, bracteoles 1-2-pinnate, fruit f in. dor- 

 sally compressed, ridges all winged the lateral more broadly, vittse obsolete, 

 seed 3 times as broad as thick. Cortia vaginata, Edgw. in Trans. Linn. Soc. 

 xx. 55. 



From KASHMIR to KTTMAON, alt. 6000-12,000 ft., frequent. 



Glabrous, or nearly so, 2-4 ft. Leaves 4-10 in., elliptic; lower like Sium lati- 



