128 



N. Ord. UMBELLIFER^E. 

 Tribe Peucedanea . 

 Genus Ferula, Linn. 



128. Ferula galbaniflua, Boiss. fy Buhse in Nouv. Mem. Soc. 

 Imp. Nat. de Moscou, xii, p. 99 (1860). 



Kassnih, Boridscheh (Persia). 



Syn. F. gummosa, Boiss. (1856). F. erubescens, Boiss. (1844), in part. 

 Not previously figured. 



Description. Eoot large, thickened below the neck, branched, 

 sparingly filled with resinous juice. Stem 4 or 5 feet high, erect, an 

 inch or more in diameter at the base, branched above, terete, 

 striate, solid, exuding a white gum-resin which quickly becomes 

 yellow on exposure to the air. Hoot-leaves 1| 2 feet long, with 

 a slightly sheathing base and long petiole, greyish, covered with 

 a fine down, outline broadly triangular, very compound ; the 

 primary divisions 3, on very long stalks, rhomboidal in outline 

 and bipinnate, with the pinnse opposite and distant, ultimate 

 leaflets very small, not ^ an inch long, ovate, pinnatifid or bipin- 

 natifid, with the segments linear, bluntish, divaricate, entire, and 

 more or less collected into a bunch ; cauline leaves reduced to a 

 very small multifid tufted limb terminating an oblong, acute, 

 membranous, veined, tomentose, not swollen, sheathing petiole, 

 deciduous. Flowers polygamous ; umbels of fertile flowers 

 terminal, those of male flowers lateral, on long stalks which 

 overtop the fertile umbel; rays 6 14, thickened at both 

 ends, pedicels slender, general involucre absent, partial either 

 absent or represented by a few small lanceolate bracts. Calyx- 

 segments obsolete. Petals linear-lanceolate, rather acute, entire, 

 with an incurved apex, pale yellow, smooth. Filaments long. 

 Fruit on stalks about 5 of an inch long, greatly compressed, 

 elliptic-oblong or slightly obovate in outline, blunt at both ends, 

 J to nearly f of an inch long, J to nearly '~ wide, crowned with 



