Heracleum.'] LXX. TJMBELLIFER^;. (C. B. Clarke.) 718 



on the nerves beneath. Bracts 1, in., linear; rays 6-8, l-2 in., glabrous ; brac- 

 teoles 0-5, f in., linear; pedicels 8-16, -f in. Fruit glabrous, brown, dorsal and 

 intermediate ridges not prominent, wing broad having a narrow median vitta - 

 rittae about half as long as the fruit subclavate below. 



VAB. elatior ; more hairy upwards, bracts 4-6, rays 20-30 hairy. Nipal. 

 This may be a different species but contains only very immature fruit. The upper 

 leaves are lobed, not divided, more hairy than in the type, and the bracteoles are 

 much more prominent. Bentham (Gen. PL i. 922) referred H. diversifolium to 

 Peucedanum : but is not now certain to which of the many plants mixed under the 

 name H. diversifolium he referred. H. Wallichii is a typical Heracleum, with the 

 vittae hardly half as long as the mericarp. 



6. H. nubig-enum, C. B. Clarke; upper leaves 3-partite or pinnate 

 glabrescent, bracts several deciduous, calyx obsolete, fruit in. orbicular 

 emarginate at both ends, commissure subevittate. 



SIKKIM, alt. 10,000-14,000 ft.; Chola Pass, J. D. H. ; Yakla Pass, C. B. Clarke. 



Stem 3-5 ft., pubescent. Tertiary pinnae 1-3 in., ovate, serrate, often lobed, 

 slightly pubescent Bracts 4-12, in., linear; rays 30-50, 2-6 in., pubescent; 

 bracteoles 4-10, ^ in., linear; pedicels 15-30, -f in. Fruit glabrous, brown; dor- 

 sal and intermediate ridges obtuse, little excurrent, much broader than the vittae ; 

 wing broad interrupted at the apex and base ; vittse nearly as long as the fruit, 

 commissural usually 0, or 1-2 very short near the apex, sometimes fragments of an 

 interrupted vitta are seen. The fruit of this plant is much like that of Cortia- 

 Hoofteri. 



7. H. Brunonis, Benth. in Gen. PL i. 921 ; upper leaves pinnate oblong, 

 bracts 5-8 -1 in. lanceolate hirsute sometimes divided or foliaceous, fruit 

 A_I. by -4- in. elliptic. Tordylium ? Brunonis, Wall. Cat. 690. Tordyliopsia 

 Brunonis, DC. Prodr. iv. 199. 



From KUMAON ; Wallich; to SIKKIM; alt. 10,000-13,500 ft. 



Stem 1-3 ft., pubescent. Cauline leaves 6-8 by 2-3 in. ; pinnae subsessile, ovate, 

 lobed or pinnatifid, serrate, sparingly pubescent. Rays 4-8, 1-1 5- in. ; bracteoles 5-6, 

 | in., lanceolate ; pedicels 8-16, much shorter than the bracteoles. Flowers greenish- 

 white or purple (J. D. #.), outer often radiant, large. Calyx-teeth minute. Styles 

 long. Fruit glabrous, brown ; dorsal and intermediate ridges filiform, hardly excur- 

 rent ; wing prominent with a minute marginal vitta ; vittse f or f the length of the 

 fruit, commissural 0, or 2 and short. 



8. ZZ. sublineare, C. B. Clarke ; pinnse of the upper leaves linear or 

 nearly linear, bracts small or 0, calyx-teeth linear, fruit |- by -f in. ellip- 

 tic, commissure 2-vittate. Pastinaca sp. 4, Herb. 2nd. Or. If. f. fy T. 



SIKKIM, alt, 10,000-13,000 ft., J. D. H., &c. 



rate, 



linear*; pedicefs~6-'l67^ in." 'Flowers white, outer often radiant, large. Fruit glabrous, 

 brown, dorsal and intermediate ridges filiform hardly excurrent ; wing broad, con- 

 tinuous, with a minute marginal vitta ; dorsal vittae more than half as long a: 

 fruit, commissural 2, usually slender, close to the medial line, nearly as 

 the mericarp, rarely shorter or interrupted. 



9. XX. canescens, LindL in Eoyle HI. 232 ; stem and leaves softly 

 hairy, upper leaves mostly pinnate, bracts small or 0, fruit \ by i in. obo- 

 vate, commissure 2-vittate. H. hirsutum, Edgw. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xx. 57. 

 ? H. cinereum, LindL in Royle TIL 232. 



