Archmgetica."] LXX. UMBELLIFER.E. (C. B. Clarke.) 707 



30. ARCHANCELICA, Haffm. 



Tall perennial herbs. Leaves 2-3-pinnate, ultimate pinnae toothed, usually 

 large. Umbels compound, rays many ; bracts few, small, or ; bracteoles 

 many, linear, or obsolete. Calyx-teeth obsolete (in India). Petals ovate, sub- 

 entire, white. Fruit ellipsoid, subquadrate, or oblong ; commissure broad ; 

 carpels dorsally compressed, lateral ridges winged or acute, dorsal and interme- 

 diate narrower, distinct ; vittse many ; carpophore 2-partite. Seed dorsally 

 much compressed, inner face plane. DISTRIB. Species 5, in North Temperate 

 regions. 



1. A. officinalis, Hojf. PL Umb. Gen. i. 168; leaflets l-4 by f-2 in., 

 bracteoles as long as the flowering umbellule, fruit | in. DC. Prodr. iv. 169. 

 A. decurrens, Ledeb. Ic. Fl. Ross. ii. 21, t. 166. Angelica Archangelica, Linn. 



VAJI. himalaica; flowers twice as large, fruit 3- by ^ in. 



KASHMIR; 8-13,000 ft., C. B. Clarke; Aitchieson. JOGI; alt. 11,000 ft., Thomson. 

 SIKKIM; Lachen, alt. 10,000-11,000 ft., J. D. H DISTBIB. (of the type) North 

 Europe, Asia, and America. 



Stem 5-10 ft. Leaves 1-3 ft., ovate, ultimate pinnae sessile, rarely decurrent, 

 terminal often 3-lobed. Bracts small; rays 10-30, ]-4 in.; pedicels very nume- 

 rous, \~^ in. Lateral ridges usually winged ; pericarp somewhat corky, easily sepa- 

 rating from the seed ; vittse numerous, small, on the inner surface of the pericarp. 

 The fruit of the Himalayan variety is much larger than that of any other Archangelica 

 preserved at Kew. It closely resembles the flowering example of A. decurrens, but 

 in Ledebour's figure of that species its fruit is no larger than in ordinary A. officinalis. 



31. FERULA, Linn. 



Perennial herbs. Leaves 2-4-pinnatifid or 2-4-pinnate. Umbels compound. 

 Flowers yellow, often polygamous. Calyx-teeth obsolete. Petals ovate, obtuse, 

 or emarginate. Fruit orbicular or ellipsoid, much compressed dorsally ; lateral 

 ridges winged, dorsal and intermediate filiform or obscure ; vittae many or few ; 

 carpophore 2-partite. Seed much dorsally compressed, inner face plane. 

 DISTRIB. Species 60, in Europe, N. Africa, Central Asia. 



Ferula is difficult to separate from Peucedanum. The Indian species all belong to 

 the section Narthex. 



SECT. Narthex, Falconer (Gen.) Segments of the leaves 1-4 in., oblong, 

 often pubescent. Bracts 0, or small, deciduous : bracteoles 0, or very small. 

 Dorsal furrows 1-vittate (rarely a small vitta added) ; lateral 1-2-vittate; com- 

 missure 2-14-vittate. 



1. F. Narthex, Soiss. Fl. Orient, ii. 994; secondary and tertiary pinnae 

 decurrent entire or very irregularly crenate-serrate, ovary glabrous, fruit by f 

 in., vittffi manifest broad 1 (rarely 1-2) in the dorsal furrows. Fliick. $ Hanb. 

 Pharm. 280; Bentl. % Trim. Med. PL t. 126. Narthex Asafcetida, Falc. in 

 Trans. Linn. Soc. xx. 285 ; Sot. Mag. t. 5168 ; Balf. in Trans. R. Soc. Edinb. 

 xx. 366, tt. 21, 22. 



BALTISTHAN ; Astor, Falconer. 



Stem 5-8 ft. Leaves pubescent, at least when young; lower leaves 1- I ft., ovate, 

 cauline sheaths large, from which spring simple or scarcely compound umbels. 

 Terminal umbel large, compound, leafless. Vittas broad, usually occupying the whole 

 furrow, and as long as the carpel; commissural usually 4, 2 slender sometimes added. 



