674 MX. UMBELLiFEEiE. (C. B. Clarke.) [Bv^leunm. 



7. BUFIiISUXtTTIlE, Idnn. 



Glabrous herbs, or slirul3S. Leaves entire. Umbels compound ; bracts and 

 bracteoles foliaceona, or setaceous, or 0. Flowers yellow or lurid, pedicelled 

 or subsessile. Calyx-teeth 0. Petals obovate, emarginate. Styles short. Fruit 

 laterally compressed, slightly constricted at the commissure; carpels terete or 

 Bubpentagonal ; primary ridges distinct, sometimes subalate, rarely obscure ; 

 secondary 0, or obscvirs ; vittse 1-3 between the primary ridges, rarely or 

 many ; carpophore entire 2-fid or 2-partite. Disc depressed, rarely prominent 

 in fiuit. Seed terete, sometimes slightly grooved on the inner fiice.- — ^Disteib. 

 Species 60, European and temperate Asiatic : 1 South A&ican, 1 Arctic 

 American. 



A genus at once recognised by its absolutely entire leaves. 



1. B. plantagrinlfolium, Wight Ic. t. 381 ; upper cauUne leaves 

 broadly oblong obtuse mucronate, bracts 3-5 elliptic foliaceous, fruit J in. 

 oblong subquadrate subalate, furrows 1-vittate. 



Mts. of the Dbccan PEHiNStmA ; Nilghiris, alt. 6000-8000 ft., Wight, See. 



Stout, bushy, 2-7 ft. Lower leaves linear-oblong ; upper cauline 2-4 by f— IJ in., 

 subsessile, shortly narrowed at the base ; nerves 10-30, subpalmate ; secondary nu- 

 merous, distinct, reticulate. Bracts |-1 in., subequal ; bracteoles 4-5, |-^ in., 

 oblong-eUiptic, mucronate ; rays 6-12, grooved ; pedicels 4^12, shorter than the 

 fruit. Carpds strongly pentagonal ; ridges thick, obtuse, suborbicular, corky ; fur- 

 rows glaucescent, vitt* very large ; carpophore 2-fid, often 2-partite. Seed subterete, 

 deeply but obtusely 5-ridged. 



2. B. lanceolatum, Wall. Cat. 561 ; middle cauline leaves petioled i 

 ovate or broadly lanceolate, bract 1 small lanceolate or 0, fruit ovoid-oblong, i 

 ridges obscure, furrows 3-vittate. DC. Prodr. iv. 132. ^ 



NoETH-WEST HiMAiATA ; from Kashmir to Nipai,, alt. 4000-9000 ft., conmion. 



Perennial, 1-5 ft., erect, nearly simple, or sometimes subpanicled with spreading 

 horizontal branches 1 foot long. Lower leaves long-petioled, lanceolate ; middle can- 

 line 3-5 by j-3 in., ovate, acuminate, occasionally rounded at the base, nerves 5-7, 

 subpalmate; secondary nerves numerous, distinct, reticulate. Bracts J in., acute; 

 bracteoles less than ^^ in., linear, usually obsolete in the fruit ; rays 5-8, unequal ; 

 pedicels 6-12, ^ in., subequal. Fruit ^-\ in. Carpels much incurved when ripe, 

 yellowish-brown, subviscid ; ridges distinct in imperfectly ripe fruit, small obsolete 

 in the fully ripe ; carpophore entire. Seed terete. 



3. B> CandoUil, Wall. Cat. 552 ; upper cauline leaves subsesgUe oblong 

 or ovate hardly cordate lower linear-oblong, bracteoles 4-5 elliptic or oblong 

 usually as long as the flowering umbeUule, fruit eUipsoid-oblong, ridges promi- 

 nent, flirrows S-vittate. DC. Prodr. iv. 131. 



HiMAiiTA, from KASHMTEto SiKKiM, alt. 8000-12,000 ft. ; frequent. 



Perennial, 1-3 ft., erect: more or less corymbose upwards. Lower cauline Zcfflue* 

 2-5 by ^— J in. ; upper 1-4 by \-\ in., acute, rarely acuminate, narrowed shortly at 

 the base, subsessile or sessile and amplexicaul ; primary nerves 8-1 2, often subpin- 

 nate, oblique ; transverse nerves numerous, distinct, reticulating. Bracts 2-3 or 0, 

 ^1^ in., ovate or oblong, acute, foliaceous, angular ; bracteoles ^|in., foliaceons, 

 frequently longer than the fruiting umbellule ; rays 5-8, rather short ; pedicels about 

 half as long as the carpels. Carpels J in., yellowish-brown, semi-terete or 

 dorsally subcompressed ; ridges distinct, but not thick nor winged ; carpophore entire. 



