712 LXX. UMBELLiFERjE. (C. B. Clarke.) [Heracleum* 



Stems 12-20 in., grey pubemlo-pubescent, naked upwards. Leaves 6-10 in., 

 ovate-lanceolate, ultimate segments ^-1 in. pinnatifid. Bracts 4-5, ^3- in.; rays- 

 4-10, 1-2 in ; bracteoles 5-8, \ in., ovate-lanceolate, white-margined. Ovary hairy. 

 Petals white. Fruit distinctly but not broadly winged, greenish-pubescent when 

 ripe, dorsal ridges hardly excurrent ; dorsal vittse extending nearly to the base ; com- 

 missural 2, near the medial line, half as long. H. tragoides, Benth. in Gen. PL i. 924 

 (Zozimia tragoides, Boiss.J, is very near this, but in it the lower leaves are pinnate 

 and lobed. 



VAR. glabrior ; leaves nearly glabrous more acutely serrate. Pastinaca sp. 2, 

 Herb. Ind. Or. H. f. $ T. North-west Himalaya and Kashmir ; alt. 9000-12,000 ft., 

 Jacquemont, TJiomson. 



2. 3X. pinnatum, C. B. Clarke ; leaves pinnate pinnse ovate toothed or 

 pinnatifid, bracts small or 0, fruit 3 ^ in. obovate winged. Heracleum sp. 

 14, Herb. Ind. Or. H.f. % T. 



KASHMIR northwards to the KARAKORTTM, alt. 10,000-16,000 ft.; Thomson, C. B. 

 Clarke. 



"White-pubescent, 1-3 ft., sparingly corymbose, little leafy upwards. Leaves 6-10 

 in., oblong; pinnae usually ^-1 in. sometimes 2-3 in., sessile, serrate. Bracts 0-4, 

 ^-^ in., linear or oblong; rays 8-20, 1-3 in.; bracteoles 5-8, ^-\ in., linear or 

 oblong; pedicels 10-30, \ in. Petals white. Ovary hairy. Fruit rather broadly 

 winged, minutely pubescent, whitish; dorsal and intermediate ridges excurrent; 

 vittae broad extending f the length of the carpel, a minute vitta added in the centre 

 of the wing ; commissural 2, near the medial line, often more than half as long as 

 the mericarp. 



3. II. Jacquemont ii, C. B. Clarke ; leaves pinnate or 3-partite, seg- 

 ments ovate, bracts 0, fruit orbicular in. winged. 



NORTH-WEST HIMALAYA?, Jacquemont. 



Villous with lax white hairs, 1 ft., nude upwards. Leaves ovate, segments 

 ^-f in., serrate. Rays 7, 1-2 in.; bracteoles 4-8, -5- in., linear ; pedicels 10-12, 

 |- in. Fruit minutely pubescent, dorsal and intermediate ridges not excurrent, late- 

 ral excurrent in 'a continuous circular narrow wing; vittae nearly as long as the 

 carpel, commissural 4. Very distinct by the small fruits. 



4. H. cachemiricum, C. B. Clarke ; lower leaves 2-pinnate pinnse nar- 

 rowly oblong entire or remotely obtusely toothed, bracts small, fruit % by 

 | in. 'elliptic winged. Peucedanum glaucum, Herb. Ind. Or. H.f. fy T., not of 

 'Wall. 



MURREE, Falconer ; JAMU, alt. 5000-6000 ft., Thomson ; KASHMIR ; Nowgunge, alt. 

 8000 ft., C. B. Clarke. 



Minutely pubescent, 2-3 ft., naked, sparingly corymbose upwards. Leaves 

 6-12 in., ovate, secondary pinnae 1-3 by -^-\ in., sessile, subobtuse. Bracts 2-4, 

 ^-^ in., lanceolate; rays 6-10, 1-2 in.; bracteoles 5-8, in., lanceolate; pedicels 

 8-20, -f in. Fruit pubescent ; dorsal and intermediate ridges hardly excurrent, la- 

 teral forming a continuous narrow wing ; vittse broad nearly as long as the carpel, 

 commissural 2, near the medial line. 



ft Large, drying brown ; fruit when ripe brown, often with a very thin wing. 



5. H. Wallichii, DC. Prodr. iv. 195; glabrescent upwards, upper leaves 

 3-partite or pinnate, bracts 1-2 small deciduous or 0, calyx-teeth linear pro- 

 minent, fruit f by \ in. obovate, commissure evittate. H. diversifolium, 

 Wall. Cat. 574. 



NIPAL; Wallich. SIKKIM : on Singaleleh, alt. 10,000 ft., C. B. Clarke. 



Stem 3-4 ft., white-hirsute beneath the nodes. Leaves serrate, pilose above and 



