■Vieatia.] ■ ixx. UMBELiiFEEa;. (0. B. Clarke.) 671 



fpui^le-red. li-uit ovoid, narrowed at the apex, scarcely laterally compressed 

 distinctly constricted at the commissure. Cm-pels grooved on the inner face' 

 flubpentagonal or subterete, dorsally subcompressed ; lateral primary ridges 

 conmiissural, intermediate slender but distinct ; vittse 2-S in each furrow, not 

 large ; carpophore entire or bifid. Seed subterete, grooved on the inner face.— 

 DisTBiBi Species 2-3, Himalayan. 



Separable from Fvmpinella only by the deeper groove on the inner face of the me- 

 jjcaips as DC. states. 



1. V. conilfolia, BC. Prodr. iv. 243; ultimate segments of the leaves 

 linear, carpels ovate broadly grooved on the inner face. Sison ? coniifolium, 

 WdU. Cat. 691. Ohserophyllum graCiUimnm, iZotocA in Reig. Pr. Waldem. 

 Bat. 149, t. 46. Ligusticum P meoides, JOoquern. Jowi-n. 



HniAiATA, alt. 6000-12,000 ft., from Baltistan and Kashmir to Nipalj 

 common. 



Stem 1-2 ft., ascending, divided, striate, sparingly leafy. Leaves usually 3-pin- 

 nate, ultimate segments linear or narrowly oblong-linear, acute. Peduncle 2-6 in. 

 Bract rarely exceeding 4 in., very rarely more than 1 or slightly divided ; primary 

 rays of the vmibel 6-12, |-2 in,, rigid, angularly striate ; bracteoles 3-6, often as long 

 as the umbellule. Fruit ^-^ in., disc prominent, styles short. 



2. V. mlllefolla, C. B. Clarke ; ultimate segments of the leaves 

 setaceous, carpels oblong narrowly grooved on the inner face. Ohserophyllum 

 millefolium, Klotzsch in Seis. Pr. Waldem. Bat. 149, t. 45. 



Kashmik; Tragbol, alt. 11,400 ft., C. B. Clarke. ? NiPAi ; Hoffmeister. Sikkim ■ 

 Jongri, alt. 12,000-13,000 ft., C. B. Clwrke. 



Stem, 4-6 in., rarely 12 in. Cauline leaves 2-4 in., 2-3-4-pinnate, ultimate seg- 

 ments scarcely A in. Fruit -ig-^ in., oblong or narrow-oblong; disc prominent; 

 styles short. — United with V. eoniifoUa by Bentham {in Gen. PI. i. 883), but the fruit 

 is very much smaller, less grooved on the inner face, and the leaves are much more 

 floely cut. 



3. V. 7 Stevrartll, C. B. Clarke; secondary pinnae of the cauline 

 leaves deeply cut into small narrow-lanceoiite teeth, carpels plane on the inner 

 face, seed with a T-shaped groove on the inner face. 



. , GuBWHAL, alt. 6500 ft., Stewart. 



Bracts small or 0. Bracteoles linear, unequal, some overtopping the flowering 

 umbellnles. Fruit (not quite ripe) | in., rather larger than that of V. comifolia, 

 ridges obscure ; vittse in each furrow 3 -4, small. 



6. TRACIZYDXiriMC, Idndl. 



Perennial herbs, glabrous or minutely hirsute. Zeaves 1- 2- or 3-pinnate. 

 Umbels compound, sometimes sessile, when the inflorescence appears to consist 

 of simple umbels on clustered long peduncles ; bracts several, foliaceous, lobed 

 or pinnate ; bracteoles 5-10, similar, often united at the base, sometimes 

 white membranous on the margins, often equalling the rays. Calyx-margin 

 obsolete or prominent, entire or nearly so. Petals white or pink, elliptic, sub- 

 acute, or emarginate by the greater or less inflexion of the apex. Fruit 

 Ovoid or subquadrate, laterally subcompressed, slightly constricted at the com- 

 missure, smooth or tuberoled; carpels terete ; primary ridges distinct, sometimes 

 thickened, spongy, rugose or tubercled, lateral at tie commissure ; secondary 



