CaucalisJ] LXX. UMBELLIFFR^E. (C. B. Clarke.) 719 



HIMALAYA, alt. 3000-9000 ft. ; from KASHMIR to SIKKIM, frequent. DISTRIB. N. 

 Asia, Europe, N. Africa. 



Adpressedly hispid; 1-2 (in the Himalayas) ft. Secondary pinna 1 in., pin- 

 natifid half-way down into lanceolate acute lobes. Umbels long-peduncled, rays 5-12; 

 bracteoles linear, not white-margined. Petals purplish or white, not radiant. Bristles 

 scattered over the whole surface of the fruit, rough, curved or almost hooked, not 

 glochidiate. 



2. C. leptophylla, Linn.-, DC. Prodr. iv. 216; bracts 0, fruit - in., 

 c^ondary ridges prominent, primary filiform minutely hispid, bristles in 1-3 

 rows: oiss. Fl. Orient, ii. 1084. 



KASHMIR, alt. 4000-6000 ft., Jacquemont, Thomson. PUNJAB ; Falconer. DISTRIB. 

 W. Asia, S. Europe, N. Africa. 



Eesembling C. Anthriscus, but the leaves rather more finely cut, ultimate seg- 

 ments narrower, sometimes almost linear ; fruit larger, bristles longer, shining, 

 scarcely scabrous, subglochidiate. Umbels often lateral, peduncle 1-2 in., stout; 

 rays usually 2-5. 



3. C. latifolia, Linn. Syst. Nat. ii. 205; bracts and bracteoles small 

 oblong white-membranous, fruit in., primary and secondary ridges equally 

 prominent and aculeate. Tordylium latifolium, Linn. Sp. PL 345. Turgeuia 

 latifolia, Haffm. ; DC. Prodr. iv. 218 ; Boiss. Fl. Orient, ii. 1087. 



KASHMIR; Falconer; alt. 5000-8000 ft., frequent, C. B. Clarke. 



Hispid, almost prickly, 4-24 in., rigid, erect or divaricate. Leaves 1-2'pinnate, 

 pinnae often 1-2 in., oblong, serrate or pinnatifid half-way to the midrib. Bays 3-4, 

 1-3 in. ; pedicels hardly as long as the fruit. Carpels with 7 subequally aculeate 

 ridges, the two lateral primary ridges within the commissure less prominent ; bristles 

 stout, rough, curved or nearly straight at the apex, hardly glochidiate. 



37. FSAMIVIOGETQN, Edgw. 



A small annual, pubescent or glabrous. Leaves 1-2-pinnate, pinnae laci- 

 niate. Umbels compound; bracts and bracteoles many, small, lanceolate or 

 linear, scarious. Calyx-teeth obsolete. Petals obovate, emarginate, white or 

 purplish, not or but slightly radiant in the outer flowers. Fruit small, ovoid 

 or lanceolate commissure slightly constricted; primary and secondary ridges 

 hairy, elevated, scarcely winged, secondary rather the more prominent ; vittse 

 solitary, under the secondary ridges ; carpophore 2-fid. Seed somewhat dorsally 

 compressed, inner face plane or scarcely concave. 



1. P. biternatum, Edgw. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xx. 57 ; segments of the 

 lower leaves ovate pinnatifid into narrow lobes of the upper narrowly cuneate 

 laciniate, hairs on the ridges white capitellate 1-seriate scattered longer than 

 the carpel is broad. P. crinitum, Boiss. FL Orient, ii. 1078. PimpineDa crini- 

 tum, Soiss. in Ann. Sc. Nat. 3rd ser. i. 131. 



PUNJAB PLAIN, ascending the Himalaya to 3000 ft. ; frequent. SCINDE. DISTRIB. 

 Beloochistan, Cabul, Persia. 



Stem 2-8 in., divaricately branched, pubescent or grey subtomentose, not villous. 

 Peduncles 1-3 in., stout, lateral and terminal. Bracts 3-8, J- in., narrowly lan- 

 ceolate or linear; rays 5-10, -1 in.; bracteoles 4-8, * in., lanceolate sheathing 

 the young umbellule ; pedicels 6-16, | in. Fruit scarcely $ in., lanceolate, thinly 

 hairy in the Indian plants ; styles very long. 



VAR. ? villosa ; much taller with patent soft hairs, ridges ot the truit witt 

 dense rows of often brown hairs. Scinde, Stocks : a frequent form in Beloochistan 



