684 • Lxx. UMBELLiFERJ!. (0. B. Clarke.) \_Smm^ 



same genus as the true 8. lancifolmnt in ■which the fruits are much smaller the ridges- 

 slender Tvith broad S-vittate furrows. S. nipponicum, Maxim, in. Bull. Acad. Petersb. 

 Mel. Biol. ix. 766, is very near S. latijugvm, but its calyx-teeth are manifest, and there- 

 are vittse scattered under the ridges besides the subsolitary vittse in the furrows. In 

 j8; midtijiigum the lateral ridges are rather larger than the others, and form with 

 the commissure a wide plane face, there are 2 vittse only on the commissure close to- 

 its medial line. The 4 vitt« on the outer faces of the carpels are large, exactly- 

 occupying the furrows. The seed is very accurately terete. 



13. FIBEFXNEXiIiA, lAnn. 



Hei-bs, Hennial or perennial. Leaves 1-2-pinnate or 1-2-ternate or decom- 

 poimd, rarely undivided, toothed. Umbels compoimd ; bracts few or j 

 Dracteoles usually linear, sometimes 0. Flowers hermaphrodite or polygamo- 

 monoecious. Calyx-teeth or small, lanceolate. Petals usually emarginate, 

 ovate acute or lanceolate caudate. Fruit laterally compressed, usually con- 

 stricted at the commissure, ovate or ovate-oblong or narrovy-oblong ; carpela 

 terete or subpentagonal, often dorsally compressed, plane on the inner face ; 

 ridges slender, obscure or prominent ; furrows 2-3-vittate (in P. ceespitosa 1- 

 vittate) ; carpophore entire 2-fld or 2-partite. Seed terete, ^-terete or dorsally 

 subcompressed, inner face plane or nearly so. — Disteib. Species 70, in the 

 northern hemisphere, with a few in S. Africa and S. America. 



* Fruit glabrous or very nearly so. (See also No. 16, P. diversifolia, var^ 

 alpina). 



1. P. acliillelfolia, C. B. Clarke ; glabrous, lower cauline leaYOS 3-4- 

 pinnate ultimate segments linear-lanceolate, bracts" 1--5 ^— | in. linear, rays 6-10. 

 Atbamanta achilleifolia, WM. Cat. 568. Ptychotis achiUeifolia, DC. Prodr. 

 iv. 109. 



Temperate and suhalpine Himalaya, Wallich, &e. ; from Kumaon ; Naini Tal,. 

 alt. 8500 ft., Sir. and Wint. ; to Sikkim; Jongri, 13,000 ft, G. JB. Clarke. 



Stem 3-4 ft., erect, corymbose upwards, with long peduncles. Quaternary ^inBte 

 ^-| in,, often 3-furcate, somewhat rigid, upper leaves reduced, sometimes almost ta 

 the inflated sheaths. Bracteoles 4-6, ^ in., linear ; rays ^-2^ in. ; pedicels 8-20, 

 ^j in. FVuit ^ in,, elliptic, oblong, glabrous, laterally compressed, ridges distinct, 

 furrows 2-3-vittat6 ; disc conical, prominent. 



2. P. nervosa, C. B. Clarke \ cauline leaves twice 3-partite secondary 

 pinnse 1-2 in. broadly lanceolate serrate nerves beneath much elevated mi- 

 nutely scabrid. 



Khasia Mts. ; Nonkreem, alt. 5500 ft., H.f. # T. 



Nearly glabrous. S^em 2-3 ft., stout. Peduncles 1-6 in. Bracts 0; rays 6-12, 

 1-2J in. ; bracteoles 3-8, linear, overtopping the umbellules. Flowers all herma- 

 phrodite. Calyx-limh 0. Petals emarginate, white or purplish. Styles short. Fruit 

 ^ in., crowned by short conic style-bases, glabrous ; carpels subpentagonal, dorsally 

 subcompressed; ridges distinct, furrows 2-1-vittate. — This from its coarse habit and 

 foliage may be an Mgopodium, but there are small vittse in the unripe fruit. 



3. P. Keyneana, Wall. Cat. 566 ; lower cauline leaves 3-partite or 

 twice or thrice 3-partite, ultimate segments ovate or ovate-lanceolate narrowed 

 at the base, fruit didymous broader than long. Kurz in Joum. As. Sao. 1877, 

 pt. ii. 115. Helosciadium ? Jleyneanum, DC.Frodr. iv. 106 ; W. 8^ A. Prodr. 

 368 ; Balz. Sr Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 106. Siiun triternatum. Moon Cat. 22. Seseli 



