714 LXX. UMBELLiFERffl. (C. B. Clarke.) [Heracleum. 



NORTH-WEST HIMALAYA, alt. 6000-80/)0 ft. ; Kishtwar and Banahal, Ttoyle, Thom- 

 son ; Simla, Lady Da/housie, &c. 



Stem 1-4 ft., subnude upwards, hirsute with white lax hairs at the apex of the 

 peduncles. Leaves 3-12 in., 1-2-pinnate, oblong or ovate ; pinnae J-3 in., oA*ate or 

 oblong, acute or obtuse, crenate-serrate or lobed, rhachis with lax white hair. 

 Bracts 1-4, in., linear or lanceolate, or 0; rays 6-16, 1-3 in.; bracteoles 4-8, 

 A in., linear or linear-lanceolate ; pedicels 8-16, 0- in. Calyx-teeth linear, small. 

 Young ovary very hairy, rarely slightly pubescent. Dorsal and intermediate ridges 

 filiform; distinctly elevated ; wing broad ; dorsal vittee f the length of the fruit, 

 not clavate below, commissural distinct, near the medial line, more than half as long 

 as the carpel. Easily separated from H. candicans by the indumentum. The leaves 

 are most variable. No example exists at Kew of H. cinereum, but there appears no 

 reason why it should not belong here. 



10. H. candicans, Watt. Cat. 573 ; leaves pinnatifid or pinnate, pinnae 

 obtusely lobed or pinnatifid tomentose or white-villous beneath, bracts small 

 or 0, fruit | by %-% in. obovate, commissure 2-vittate. DC. Prodr. iv. 192. 



From KASHMIR to KUMAON, alt. 6000-12,000 ft., common. 



Stem 2-6 ft., pubescent or closely villous. Pinna often 8 by 6 in., crenate-serrate, 

 thickly white-tomentose, or only slightly grey-pubescent. Bracts 1-3, |- in., 

 linear, or ; rays 10-40, 1-4 in. ; bracteoles 4-8, in., linear; pedicels 8-16, |~i in. 

 Calyx-teeth linear. Dorsal and intermediate ridges filiform slightly excurrent, 

 wing broad with a small distinct median vitta ; vittse in Wallich's example \ the 

 length of the fruit, in others (with less elongate-obovate fruits) the length ; com- 

 missural in the type more than the length, or minute near the apex, or 0. 



11. H. obtusifolium. Wall. Cat. 577 ; upper leaves 3-fid or 3-partite 

 lower 3-5-partite, pinnae round crenate white-tomentose beneath, bracts 

 2-5 -1 in. deciduous. DC. Prodr. iv. 192. 



NIPAL; Wallich. SIKKIM ; Lachen, alt. 12,000 ft., J. D. H. BHOTAN, Griffith. 



Stem 1-3 ft., pubescent or villous. Pinna 1-4 in. diam., sometimes 2-3-lobed, 

 always rounded, scarcely serrate. Rays 10-16, l-3 in.; bracteoles 4-8, \-\ in. ; 

 pedicels 10-20 -| in. Calyx-teeth linear, small. Outer flowers of the umbel mode- 

 rately or not at all radiant. Fruit (ex DC.) obovate, commissure 4-vittate, dorsal 

 vittse linear, extending f its length in the unripe fruit. 



12. H. nepalense, Don Prodr. 185; upper leaves acutely 3-lobed rarely- 

 divided sparingly pubescent, lower pinnate, bracts or inconspicuous, fruit 

 ^ by x in. obovate, commissure 4-vittate. Wall. Cat. 576 ; DC. Prodr. iv. 

 192. 



FromNiPAL to BHOTAN, alt. 5000-12,000 ft. ; frequent. 



Stem 2-5 ft., sparingly pubescent. Pinna often 6 by 4 in., deeply lobed or pin- 

 natifid, serrate. Bracts 3-5, ^ in., linear, sometimes ; rays 8-20, 1^-3 in.; brac- 

 teoles 0-6, in., linear; pedicels 8-20, ^-^ in. CaJyx-teet h linear, small. Outer 

 Jlowers of the umbel radiant or not. Dorsal and intermediate ridges hardly excur- 

 rent; wing broad, with a prominent small marginal vitta; dorsal vitt?e the 

 length of the fruit, commissural 4, the length in Wallich's examples, shorter in 

 others. 



VAR. bivittata; fruit \ in. elliptic or subobovate, commissure 2-vittate. Sikkim 

 tind Bhotan, common. Uppermost leaves sometimes 3-partite, and middle cauline 

 leaves sub-2-pinnate. A very doubtful plant, some specimens of which have been 

 referred to a variety of H. divemifolium with 2-vittate commissure, but the cutting 

 of the leaves is that of H. nepalense. 



13. XX. barmanicum, Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. 1872, pt. ii. 309, and 

 1877, pt. ii. 116 ; lower leaves 1-2-pinnate hairy, bracts 6-8 f in, lanceolate, 



