Selinum.'} LXX. UMBELLIFEKJE. (C. B. Clarke.) 701 



folium ; upper reduced ; primary pinnae sometimes sessile on the sheath. Bracts few, 

 usually inconspicuous; bracteoles 8-12, -! in., usually exceeding the umbellule. 

 Calyx-teeth long linear lanceolate. Fruit subquadrate, longer than broad, 3 dor- 

 sal ridges approximate. Seed plane on the inner face, or slightly concave. The 

 Herbarium specimens are largely mixed with fruits of 8. elatum : and Edgeworth's 

 descriptions of the fruit and bracteoles seem taken from these : the true plant has 

 very large compound bracteoles, and the above description of the fruit is of ripe ones 

 attached to unmistakable leaves. Mr. Bentham has referred it to Liausticum, from 

 the leaves approaching the Indian Ligusticums and the obsolete vittae ; but the com- 

 pound bracteoles and long calyx-teeth refer it to Selinum. 



5. S. papyraceum, C. B. Clarke-, tertiary pinnae in. ovate serrate or 

 half-pinnatifid into lanceolate segments, fruit in. much dorsally compressed, 

 lateral wings papery wider than the 3 dorsal, dorsal furrows 1-vittate lateral 

 usually 2-vittate, seed in horizontal section elliptic twice as broad as thick. 



From BALTISTHAN and KASHMIR to SIKKIM, alt. 8000-12,000 ft. ; frequent. 



Eesembling 8. tenuifolium so closely that it is difficult to separate until 

 the fruit is nearly ripe : the leaves are usually less compound, the rays less 

 villous, the bracteoles not white-margined. Fruit often longer than the umbellule, 

 subquadrate, rather longer than broad, very strongly compressed; lateral ridges, 

 quite unlike the white corky wings of the other Indian Selinums : 3 dorsal ridges 

 very close together, usually very small, but in some examples the intermediate ridges 

 are developed, nearly as wide as the lateral, the dorsal remaining minute. Seed very 

 narrow compared with the breadth of the carpel, commissural vittae close to the 

 carpophore. 



DOUBTFUL SPECIES. 



? S. DISSECTUM, Wall. Cat. 581 ; leaves pinnate segments twice pinnatipartite, 

 lobes linear-oblong acute, bracts 0, bracteoles few, flowers yellowish, fruit nearly 

 orbicular narrowly margined, furrows 1-vittate, vittae very distinct, commissural pair 

 close to the carpophore. Peucedanum dissectum, DC. Prodr. iv. 178. NIPAL; 

 Gossain Than, Wallich. Habit of Mthusa. The sheet in the Wallichian Herbarium 

 contains _ 1, a good specimen in flower having 4-8 bracts and prominent bracteoles ; 

 2, a young flowering specimen, exinvolucrate ; 3, a detached umbel in fruit. DC.'s 

 description, copied above, appears made up from 2 and 3, excluding 1 ; 1 certainly 

 does not belong to 2, and it is possible that the fruit 3 belongs to neither. 



27. CORTIA, DC. 



Perennial herbs, often nearly stem-less. Leaves 3-4-pinnate, mostly radical, 

 ultimate segments linear. Umbels compound, central one often sessile on the 

 rootstock with numerous unequal rays; bracts rays and bracteoles many, 

 often pinnate or 2-pinnate. Calyx-teeth prominent, sub-linear. Petals obovate, 

 emarginate, white or purplish. Fruit orbicular or elliptic, much dorsally com- 

 pressed; lateral ridges winged, dorsal and intermediate approximated much 

 narrower sometimes hardly winged ; dorsal vittaa solitary, lateral solitary or 

 in pairs; carpophore 2-partite. Seed much dorsally compressed, inner face 

 plane. DISTBIB. Species 2 j Himalayan. 



This genus only differs from the Indian species of Selinum in the elongate 

 unequal rays of the umbel ; C. Lindleyi differs from all the Selinums by its compound 

 pinnate bracteoles, C. Hookeri, by being stemless. 



1. C. Xiindleii, DC. Prodr. iv. 187; bracteoles 2-pinnate, styles of the 

 fertile flowers short ; fruit commissure 4-vittate. Schultzia ? Lindlei, Wall. Cat. 

 589. Athamantha depressa, Don Prodr. 184 (ex Wall. Herb.}. 



