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Umbelliferae 



the involucel bractlets few, longer or shorter than the pedicels, 

 Unear, the calyx-teeth minute; fruit glabrous, elliptic, about 3 

 mm. long, the lateral ribs winged, the vittae solitary in the 



intervals, 2 on the commissure. Aug. Mountains; Shi- 



koku, Kyushu; rare. 



4. Angelica acutiloba (Sieb. & Zucc.) Kitag. Ligusti- 

 cum acutilobum Sieb. & Zucc; Siuni triternatum Miq.; A. 



ibu\icola Makino; L. ibu\icola Makino ToKi. Rhizomes 



short and thick, with few thick roots; stems glabrous, striate, 

 30-70 cm. long, solid; radical and lower cauline leaves long- 

 petiolate, once or twice ternately pinnate, deltoid in outline, 

 10-25 cm. long, glabrous, the leaflets 5-10 cm. long, rather 

 thin, 3-cleft, cuneate, truncate, or rounded at base, the ultimate 

 segments lanceolate, often shallowly 3-lobed, 10-25 mm. wide, 

 long-acuminate, doubly or simply and acutely dentate, the 

 reticulate veinlets fine but prominent; umbels few, papillate, 

 the rays 30-40, 3-8 cm. long, papillate, the involucel of a few, 

 filiform-linear bractlets, the pedicels slender, 7-18 mm. long; 

 fruit oblong, 4-5 mm. long, slightly compressed, narrowed 

 toward base, the carpels with slender ribs, tlie lateral ribs 

 slightly winged, the vittae 3 or 4 in the intervals, 4 on the 

 commissure. Aug., fruiting Sept.-Oct. Mountains; Hon- 

 shu (Kanto distr.) ; cultivated for medical purposes. 



Var. iwatensis (Kitag.) Hikino. A. iwatensis Kitag.; Li- 



gusticum japonicum Maxim. ^Miyama-toki, Nambo-toki, 



IwATE-TOKi. Ultimate segments of the leaves narrowly ovate, 

 usually rounded to shallowly cordate, rarely broadly cuneate 

 at base, 1-2.5 cm. wide; carpels 4-6 mm. long, 2-2.5 mm. wide, 



the vittae 3-6 in the intervals, 8-10 on the commissure. 



Honshu; sometimes cultivated for medicinal purposes. 



Var. lanceolata (Tatew.) Ohwi. Ligusticum linearilobum 

 var. lanceolatum Tatew.; A. acutiloba var. lineariloba (Koidz.) 



Hikino; L. linearilobum Koidz.; A. stenoloba Kitag. Ho- 



soBA-TOKi. Leaves more deeply cut, the leaflets broadly 



linear, 3-8 mm. wide. High mountains; Hokkaido (Mount 



Yubari and Apoi) ; rare. 



5. Angelica shikokiana Makino. Inu-t6ki. Rhizomes 

 thick; stems 50-80 cm. long, glabrous, striate; radical and 

 lower cauline leaves long-petiolate, once or twice ternately com- 

 pound, deltoid or ovate-deltoid, 20-30 cm. long, glabrous, the 

 terminal leaflets often deeply 3-cleft, the ultimate segments 

 broadly lanceolate to narrowly ovate, long-acuminate, usually 

 rounded at base, 4-8 cm. long, 1.5-3 cm. wide, usually shal- 

 lowly dentate, rather thin, the reticulate veinlets prominent, 

 the upper leaves reduced, and the sheaths rather prominently 

 inflated, narrowly oblong to broadly oblanceolate; umbels few, 

 minutely papillate-puberulent on the inner side of the rays and 

 pedicels, the rays 15-30, 3-6 cm. long, the bractlets of the in- 

 volucel 1 or 2 or lacking, the pedicels 5-10 nam. long; fruit 

 narrowly oblong, about 5 mm. long, the carpels strongly com- 

 pressed, emarginate at base, the lateral ribs broad, the dorsal 

 ones slender, the styles short but slender; vittae solitary in the 



intervals, 2 on the commissures. ^Aug. Mountains; Shi- 



koku, Kyushu. 



Var. tenuisecta Makino. A. tenuisecta (Makino) Makino 



Kawa-zenko. Leaves finely dissected, the leaflets 3-5 



cm. long, 8-15 mm. wide, paler beneath.- Mountains of 



Honshu (Kii Prov.) . 



6. Angelica saxicola Makino ex Yabe. Peucedanum 



saxicola Makino ex Makino & Nemoto Ishizuchi-eofu. 



Rhizomes short, with thickened elongate roots; stems 20-80 

 cm. long, cylindrical, striate, puberulent; radical and lower 

 cauline leaves long-petiolate, once or twice ternately com- 



pound, 5-25 cm. long, the leaflets deltoid to deltoid-orbicular, 

 2-5 cm. long, 1-2 cm. wide, deeply 3-cleft and incised, rhom- 

 bic-ovate to narrowly ovate, acuminate, with a few coarse acute 

 teeth, scaberulous only on the nerves on upper side, glaucous 

 beneath, the upper leaves reduced, their sheaths obovately in- 

 flated; umbels few, densely short-pubescent, the rays 20-30, 

 3-6 cm. long, the umbellets 25- to 40-flowered, the involucel 

 of a few, linear bractlets often longer than the flowers, the 

 pedicels 5-10 mm. long; calyx-teeth minute but evident, del- 

 toid; ovary glabrous, the styles slender, recurved, 2 or 3 times 



as long as the stylopodium; fruit oblong. July-Aug. High 



mountains; Shikoku (Mount Ishizuchi in lyo) ; rare. 



7. Angelica decursiva (Miq.) Fr. & Sav. Porphyroscias 

 decursiva Miq.; Peucedanum porphyroscias (Miq.) Makino; 

 Peucedanum decursivum (Miq.) Maxim.; Panax jallax Miq. 

 Nodake. Usually purplish and nearly glabrous peren- 

 nial herb; rhizomes short, with thickened roots; stems 80-150 

 cm. long, cylindrical, prominendy striate, with white pith; 

 radical and lower cauline leaves large, long-petiolate, ternately 

 pinnate, broadly deltoid-ovate, usually pubescent on the nodes 

 and the upper part of the petiolules, the leaflets 3 (-5), usually 

 deeply 3- to 5-cleft to -parted, the segments rather firm, usually 

 decurrent on a winglike sessile base, narrowly ovate to oblong, 

 5-10 cm. long, 2-4 cm. wide, acute, cuneate to rounded at 

 base, rather regularly and acutely serrate, sometimes pinnately 

 incised, scaberulous on the nerves on upper side and on the 

 margin; upper leaves much reduced, with an obovate much- 

 inflated sheath; umbels pedunculate, the peduncles and upper 

 side of the rays papillate-puberulent, die rays 10-20, 3-6 cm. 

 long, the umbellets 20- to 30-flowered, the involucel with few 

 linear bractlets, the pedicels often nearly glabrous, 5-10 mm. 

 long; flowers dark purplish; fruit broadly elliptic, about 5 

 mm. long, flat, glabrous, the carpels ribbed, the lateral ribs 

 rather thick, winged, the vittae 1^ in the intervals, 4-6 on 



the commissure. Sept.-Oct., fruiting Oct.-Nov. Grassy 



places in woods in lowlands and hills; Honshu (Kanto Distr. 

 and westw.), Shikoku, Kyushu; common. Korea to e Si- 

 beria and China. Forma angustiloba (Makino) Ohwi. 



Peucedanum decursivum var. angustilobum Makino Ho- 



soba-nodake. Leaflets narrow. Forma albiflora (Maxim.) 



Nakai. Peucedanum decursivum var. albiflorum Maxim. 



Shirobana-nodake. Flowers white. 



8. Angelica gigas Nakai. Oni-nodake. Resembles 

 the preceding species; rhizomes thickened; stems sometimes 

 fistulose, 1-2 m. long, glabrous; radical and lower cauline 

 leaves long-petiolate, once (sometimes twice) ternate, the leaf- 

 lets 3-parted, sometimes again 2- or 3-cleft, the segments ob- 

 long or ovate, 6-12 cm. long, rounded to obtuse at base, ab- 

 ruptly acuminate, doubly and acutely serrate, the terminal 

 segment rhombic-ovate, cuneate at base, the upper leaves 

 modified to elliptic, much-inflated purplish sheaths; umbels 

 papillate-pubescent with crowded purplish brown hairs, the 

 involucral bract solitary or lacking, the rays 15-20, the um- 

 bellets rather densely 25- to 40-flowered, die involucel of few 

 linear-lanceolate bractlets; flowers rather large, dark purple; 

 ovary minutely punctate; fruit about 8 mm. long, 5 mm. wide, 

 the vittae solitary in the intervals. Aug. Mountains; Shi- 

 koku, Kyushu. ^Korea and Manchuria. 



9. Angelica hakonensis Maxim. Iwa-ninjin. Rhi- 

 zomes short and thick, with thick elongate roots; stems 60- 

 120 cm. long, rather stout, branched above, terete, sparsely 

 whitish pubescent beneath the umbels; radical and lower 

 cauline leaves petiolate, 15-30 cm. long, deltoid-ovate in out- 



