Pleurospermum.'] LXX. UMBELLIFER.E. (C. B. Clarke.) 703 



SIKKIM, alt. 13,000-16,000 ft. ; J. D. H., C. S. Clarke. 



Stem 2-24 in., thick, hollow. Leaves 4-8 in., oblong ; pinnae often distant, never 

 finely cut. Bracts 1-1 in., usually pinnatifid at the apex ; rays 1-5 in. ; pedicels- 

 very many, short; umbellules capitate and embraced by the bracteoles. Fruit 

 narrow-oblong, rather broader upwards ; calyx-teeth small ; disc depressed ; epicarp 

 dull brown, somewhat corky ; furrows 1-vittate. Seed concave or slightly grooved 

 on the inner face. 



3. P. Candollii, Benth. in Gen. PI i. 884, 916 ; leaves pinnate pinnae 

 -! in. toothed or pinnatifid, bracteoles elliptic or oblong entire, fruit in. 

 lateral ridges broadest, furrows 3-2-vittate. Ligusticum Candollii, Wall Cat. 

 544. Hymenolaena Candollii, DC. Prodr. iv. 245. H. latifolia, Lindl. in 

 Royle III. 233. H. pimpinellifolia, Osten-Sacken 8f Ruprecht Sert. Tianschan, 



From KASHMIR toKtrMAON, alt. 10,000-1 5,000 ft. ; frequent. DISTBIB. Tianschan 

 Mts. 



Stem 6-18 in., usually very thick. Leaves 4-8 in., oblong ; pinnae often distant,. 

 never finely cut. Bracts 0-3 in., often like reduced upper leaves, sometimes a 

 mere sheath ; rays many, 2-8 in., sometimes carrying scattered white elliptic veined 

 bracts ; bracteoles obtuse, sometimes mucronate, embracing and usually ovrtopping 

 the umbel. Fruit ellipsoid ; ridges narrowly winged. Seed grooved on the inner 

 face. This has numerous vittae, but the bracteoles and broad commissure are of 

 Pleurospermum. 



4. P.? rotund atum, Benth. in Gen. PL i. 915; leaves pinnate or 3-par- 

 tite, leaflets of the lower 1-3 in. diam. with 3 rounded lobes, bracts or 1 

 small, bracteoles 5-8 in. narrow-lanceolate caudate entire white-margined. 

 Ligusticum rotundatum, Wall. Cat. 549. Hymenolaena rotundata, DC. Prodr. 

 iv. 245. 



Gossain Than, Wallich. 

 Stem 2 ft., not very thick. Leaflets 3-5, petioluled, distant, entire or crenate, 

 scarcely serrate, more often with 3 rounded lobes. Says 8-12, 1-1 in,; pedicels 

 8-16, some as long as the bracteoles. Calyx-teeth 0. Disc and styles small. 'Yonngfruit 

 subcylindric with incipient ridges. WaUich's examples show no ripe fruit, so that 

 the genus is doubtful. The elongate not thick stem, the subobsolete bracts, and 

 the little-prominent bracteoles do not look like Pleurospermum. 



5. P. Benthami, C. B. Clarke ; leaves pinnate or sub-2-pinnate pinnae 

 1-3 in. deeply lobed, bracteoles oblong toothed scarcely pinnatifid at the apex, 

 fruiting pedicels -! in., fruit - in., lateral ridges widest. Ligusticum Ben- 

 thami, Wall. Cat. 542. Hymenolaena Benthami, DC. Prodr. iv. 246. 



NEPAL ; Gossain Than, Wallich. 



Stem 2-3 ft. Pinna pinnatifid; lobes distant, large, coarsely serrate Bracts 

 4-6, 1-1 in., oblong, coarsely lobed or pinnatifid at the apex; rays 4-12, l-2 in. 

 Fruit ellipsoid, dorsally compressed; calyx-teeth obsolete, style-bases somewhat 

 prominent ; furrows 1-vittate. Seed broadly concave on the inner face, hardly 

 grooved. 



6. P. angelicoides, Benth. in Gen. PI. i. 915 ; leaves 1-2-pinnate pinnae 

 3-6 in. with oblong segments, bracteoles 5-8 f in. narrow-lanceolate entire, 

 fruit in. narrowly oblong. Ligusticum angelicoides, Wall. Cat. 548. Hyme- 

 nolaena angelicoides, D C. Prodr. iv. 245. Pterocyclus angelicoides, Klotzsch in 

 Reis. Pr. Waldem. Bot. 150, t. 47. 



KASHMIR; Falconer. KTTMAON ; Rutam River, alt. 11,500 ft., Strachey $ Win- 

 terbottom. NIPAL ; Wallich. 



Stem 3-4 ft. Leaves 12-18 in. ; segments of the secondary pinnae often 1-3 in., 



