,] Lxix. picoidej:. (C. B. Clarke.) 665 



Ptnjab ; Edgeworil, Vicmy; Aitcheson. Soinbb ; Stocfe.— Distbib. Aden, NuWa. 



Subprostrate, glandular-puberulous • or glabrate ; branches 8-18 in., much 

 divided. Lecmea J-J in., opposite op nearly so petiole \ in. Cymes sessile (or nearly 

 so) at the nodes. S^tds ^ in., roundish. Pettds much shorter than the sepals, obovate, 

 clawed, the upper margin incised or nearly fimbriate. Stamens 6-7 (Oliver). Carpels 

 in fruit as long as the sepals, Hemispheric, dehiscing ventrally; margins of the. 

 valves inflexed so as to retain the seed until moistened. Seed reniform, longer than 

 broad, compressed, concavo-convex, perfectly smooth, whitish. 



Obseb LXX. Vm;BEX.X.XrEXlfi:. (By 0. B. Clarke.) 



• Herl)s (rarely in non-Indian species shrubs or trees). Leaves alternate, 

 usually divided or dissected, sometuues simple, petiole generally sheathing at 

 the base; stipules 0. .Flowers hermaphrodite or polygamous, in compound umbels 

 (simple in Bydroeotyle and Svplewrwm), exterior of the umbel sometimes , 

 radiant ; umbels with inyolucriform bracts at the base of the general one and 

 bracteoles at the base of the partial ones (umbellules). Calyx-tube adnate to 

 the ovary, limb or 5-toothed. Petals 6, epigynous, often unequal, and with 

 a median fold on the face, plane or emarginate or 2-lobed with the apex 

 inflexed ; imbricated in bud, in Sydrocotyle sometimes valvate. Stamens 5, 

 epigynous. Ovary inferior, 2-celled, disc 2-lobed ; styles 2, stigmas capitellate ; 

 ovides 1 in each cell, pendulous. Fruit of 2 indehisoent dorsaUy or laterally 

 compressed carpels, separated by a commissure ; carpels each attached to and 

 often pendulous from a slender often forked axis (carpophore), vrith 6 primary 

 ridges (1 dorsal, 2 marginal and 2 intermediate) sind often 4 secondary ones 

 intercalated between these; pericarp often traversed by oil canals (vittse). Seed 

 1 in each carpel, pendulous, albiunen cartilaginous ; embryo small, next the 

 hilum, radicle superior. — Distrib. Species 1,300, mainly in Europe, North 

 Africa, "West Central and North Asia ; a few are North American, tropical, and 

 natives of the Southern Hemisphere. 



Tmiyliam is stated in Grm. PI, i. 871 to be Himalayan. We have seen no spe- 

 cimens. 



An umbellifer in flower, Edgw. No. 175J from the North-west Himalaya, alt. 

 6000-7000 ft, may be Johrenia al/pima, Fenzl. 



Clavis of the Genera (as to the Indian spedes only), 



Sebies J. KeterosciadlBB. Umbels simple or irregularly compound. 

 VittceO. 



Leaves ulidivided. Stipulate. Fruit laterally compressed . 1. Htdeocotvie. 



leaves spinulose-Berratfe. Flowers capitate 2. EETNoniM. 



Leaves compound not spintilose. TJmbels subcorymbose . . 3. Sanicula. 



Sebies U. KaplozygrlsB. Umbels compound. Secondary ridges of the 

 fruit inconspicuous (except in Trach/dium 9-jv,gum). 



Tribe I. AmmlnesB. Fruit laterally compressed, or at least constricted 

 at the commissure) not or very obscurely winged. 



* Carpels in outline ovate or oblong, not distinctly narrowed wpwards, exca- 

 vated or concave on the inner face ; seed grooved or concave on the inner face. 



