Ocmm.] Lxx. umbeliipbe^. (C. B. Clarke.) 683 



erect, corymbose upwards. Ultimate segments of the radical leaves often 2 by i in., 

 narrowed at tie base, distinctly reticulate-nerved, of the upper narrower, sometimes 

 filiform. Sraets 0-5, | in., linear ; rays 4-8, ^1 J in., hispid ; pedicels 8-16, |4 in., 

 braoteoles shorter than the pedicels. Fruit ^ in., ovoid; muricate hispidulous, 

 ridges prominent; carpels subpentagonous, dorsally subcompressed : vittse solitary, 

 small 



9. C. anetblfolium, Smth. in Oen. PI. i. 891 ; leaves 2-3-piimate ulti- 

 mate segments linear, bracts 4-5 linear, rays 15-40 very pubescent. Athamanta 

 anethifolia. Wall. Cat. 569. Ptychotis anethifolia, DC. JProdr. iv. 108. Pim- 

 pinella anethifolia, Don Prodi: 184. 



NiPAL, Wallich. Kumaon ; Almora alt. 5000 ft., Straohey ^ Wmterbottom. 



Puberulo-pubescent. Boot fusiform. Stem 2-4 ft., erect, leafy, corymbose up- 

 wards with long peduncles. Leaves 2-3-4-pinnate, ultimate segments ^f in., some- 

 times lanceolate-linear; rays J-lf in.;-bracteoles 4-8, J-^ in., linear; pedicels 15-30, 

 ^-i in. — Bipe fruit not seen ; young very pubescent. 



10. C. Falconeri, C. P. Clarke; leaves 2-3-pinnate ultimate segments 

 linear, bracts 4^5 narrovrly oblong-linear subobtuse, rays 3-7 glabrous or 

 nearly so.— PtycliQlis sp. 8, Merb. Ind. Or. E.f. 8f T. 



GnEWHAi; Falconer; alt. 7000-9000 ft., Edgemorth; Chiringa, alt. 7000 ft., 

 Strachey ^ Winterbottom ; Mussooree, Dr. Bacon. 



Glabrous except the pedicels, flowers, and fruits. Boot fusiform. Stem 2-4 ft., 

 erect, corymbose upwards. Upper leaves reduced sometimes to the dilated sheaths ; 

 ■ultimate segments very long in all the leaves, sometimes 2-3 by Jj in. ; rays ^-1^ in. ; 

 braoteoles 4-6, J in., oblong, subobtuse; pedicels 8-16, \-^ in., with scattered 

 hairs. Petals pubescent. Fruit J^ in., ovoid, narrowed upwards, densely hairy. — 

 Appears closely allied to C. a/nethifoUum ; possibly De Candolle's description of P. 

 anethifolia {Prodr. iv. 108) was intended to include this. 



12. SXVIMC, Linn. 



Glabrous herbs. Leaves pinnate, pinnse toothed. TImbels compound tenni- 

 ■ nal and lateral ; bracts and braoteoles several. Calyx-teeth acute, or obsolete. 

 Petals white, emarginate. Fruit ovoid or oblong, laterally compressed, con- 

 stricted at the commissure (but the constriction masked in tte Indian species 

 by the large corky lateral ridges) ; primary ridges prominent, obtuse, J&equently 

 thickened; furrows 3-2- (or 1-) vittate; carpophore (ex DO.) completely bi- 

 partite, each half adnate to the adjoining mericarp. Seed terete. — Disibeb. 

 Species 4, in the N. Temperate Zone : 1 in South Africa. 



The generic character is here somewhat altered from Bentham's (in Gen. Plant.), 

 in order to retain the Indian species in Simm rather than in Pimpinella. Sium is 

 here separated by the large simple pinnse of the leaves, and the thickened prominent 

 ridges of the fruit. 



1. S. latijug'um, C. £. Clarke ; pinnae of the lower leaves 1 in. ovate 

 or ovate-lanceolate, calyx-teeth 0, fruit elliptic, ridges triangular obtuse corky 



much wider than the 1-vittate furrows. 



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Kashmir and Baitisthan, in ditches, alt. 5000-9000 ft. ; very common. 



Eoot, stem, leaves, and flowers closely resembling S. latifolimn, which differs in 

 its smaller pinnae, acute calyx-teeth, less thick ridges of the fruit, and many vittse 

 scattered nearly all round the carpels. S. laiijnyum is that plant which Bentham 

 (in Gen. PI. ii. 893) refers to as that variety of 8. lanoifoUwm in which the ridges are 

 broader nearly completely covering the furrows : but it can hardly belong to the 



