Peucedanum.'] LXX. UMBELLIFERE. (C. B. Clarke.) 711 



bracteoles oblong, obtuse; pedicels 10-16, -f in. Petals yellow. Ovary glabrous. 

 Fruit narrowed to the base and not there emarginate, nearly as broad as long: 

 dorsal and intermediate ridges triangular, small, obtuse, lateral narrowly winged ; 

 dorsal furrows 1-vittate, lateral 2-1-vittate ; vittee nearly as long as the fruit or the 

 lateral abbreviated, commissural 4 abbreviated. Seed much broader than thick. 

 Perhaps a Heracleum, bat the ovary is glabrous. 



***** Leaves S-Ar-pinnate, ultimate segments in. ovate or lanceolate. 



9. P. Thomson!, C. B. Clarke-, quaternary pinnae in. ovate deeply 

 pinnatifid, bracts hardly any, styles long. Peucedanum sp. 5, Herb. Ind. Or. 

 H.f. 8f T. 



KASHMIR ; alt. 5000-9000 ft. ; KISHTWAR and BANAHAL, Thomson. 



Glabrous, or the leaves sometimes minutely hispidulous, 3-4 ft., stem subnude 

 upwards. Lower leaves 6-8 in., broadly ovate, ultimate segments scarcely in. 

 linear-oblong, subobtuse. Umbels large, irregular, and often twice or thrice divided ; 

 rays unequal; bracteoles hardly any; pedicels 8-12, in. Calyx-teeth 0. Ovary 

 glabrous. Fruit only half-ripe ; will be at least in. The very compound leaves 

 and irregular umbels easily distinguish this species. The genus is doubtful in the 

 absence of ripe fruit, but Dr. Thomson marked it Peucedanum, and it has all the 

 appearance of being so. 



DOUBTFUL SPECIES. 



? SKARDICUM, C. B. Clarke; glabrous, leaves twice 3-partite secondary pinnae 

 or elliptic denticulate, bracts 0, bracteoles 4-7 ^ in. lanceolate-linear scarious, 

 petals yellow. Baltisthan, near Skardo, alt. 12,000 ft, C. B. Clarke. Stem 3-4 ft., 

 corymbose. PinncB -1 in. diam., shining, yellowish green ; nerves prominent, 

 flabellate and pinnate, hardly reticulate. Peduncles 5-8 in.; rays 10-12, l-2 in., 

 subequal; pedicels 12-20, in. Calyx-teeth 0. Petals obovate, emarginate. Disc 

 large ; styles short. Fruit very immature, but about to be winged. 



33. HERACXiEUXIX, Linn. 



Herbs, biennial or perennial, never quite glabrous. Leaves 1-2-3-pinnate, 

 segments never minute nor filiform. Umbels compound ; rays usually many; 

 bracts few simple, or 0, rarely many foliaceous; bracteoles many, rarely 

 divided. Flowers polygamous, often radiant, white or yellowish. Calyx-teeth 

 obsolete, rarely small linear-lanceolate. Petals obovate, emarginate or 2-fid. 

 Ovary hairy or pubescent. Fruit orbicular obovate or elliptic, much dorsally 

 compressed ; dorsal and intermediate ridges small or 0, lateral usually winged 

 or rarely acute ; vittse usually solitary in each valley, as long as the carpel or 

 abbreviated and dilated below ; carpophore 2-partite. Seed much dorsally com- 

 pressed, plano-convex. DISTRIB. Species 50; in Temperate Europe and Asia ; 

 1 in N. America, 1 in Abyssinia. 



* Species of Northern and North-Eastern India. 



t Not large, drying green, pubescence grey or whitish; fruit when ripe greenish 

 or whitish. (Approaching Pastinaca in habit.) 



1. K. Thomson!, C. B. Clarke-, lower leaves 2-pinnate, bracts small, 

 fruit elliptic - by - in. winged minutely pubescent. Pastinaca sp. i., 

 Herb. Ind. Or. H.f. $ T. 



LADAK and PITI; alt. 11,000-15,000 ft, T. Thomson. LAHUL ; alt. 10,000 ft,, 

 Jaeschke. KASHMIR ; Tilail, alt. 9000 ft., C. B. Clarke. 



