688 Lxx. TiMBELLiFEE^. (0. B. Clarke.) [Pi/mpinella. 



Dalz. ^ G^s. Somb. Fl. 106. Helosciadium Wallichianvun, Miq. in Fl. 

 JSohenack. No. 633.— Pimpinella sp. 10, Herh. Ini. Or. S.f. ^ T. 



Mts. of Malabae and the South Dbccan ; Wight, &c. 



Minutely pubescent or nearly glabrous. Stem 7-8 ft. (DalzeU), much divided 

 upwards. Leaflets 2-3 by 1-2 in., sharply serrate ; petiolules ^2 in. ; upper leaves 

 often much reduced, cut into setaceous linear segments. Bracts 0, rarely 1 linear ; 

 rays 6-12, J-IJ in.; bracteoles 1-3, J in., linear, or more often ; pedicels 8-20, 

 outer J in. male, inner ^ in. hermaphrodite. Frtiit -^ in., subdidymous, scarcely 

 acute ; carpels J terete, inner face plane ; ridges obscure, furrows 2-vittate ; disc not 

 prominent ; carpophore entire, or very shortly 2-fid. 



16. P. diversifolia, DC. Prodr. iv. 123 ; cauline leaves entire 3-partite 

 or sul)-2-piimate leaflets ovate or cordate-lanceolate puhescent, fruit ovate nar- 

 rowed upwards hispidulous papillose-rugose or finally nearly glabrous. P. pu- 

 tescens, Wall. Cat. 567. P. trifoliata, Wall. Cat. 666. P. sinica, Hartee in 

 Seem. Jowm. Bat. 1868, 113. Helosciadium ^ trifoliatum and pubescens, DC. 

 Prodr. iv. 106. 



Throughout the Htmat.ata, alt. 4-10,000 ft., very common. £hasia Mts. alt. 

 3-6000 ft., common. — Disteib. China. 



TUlous, subtomentose, or scarcely pubescent. Stem 2-5 ft., corymbose upwards. 

 Kadical and lower cauline leaves often round-ovate ; cauline often with 3-5-leaflets, 

 or twice S-partite or suh-2-pinnate ; segments of the uppermost narrower, occasion- 

 ally almost linear ; leaflets usually 1-3 by J-1 in., serrate, sometimes laciniate or 

 subpinnatifid. Bracts 0, or 1-2, |— | in., linear; rays 6-16, i^l^ in., sometimes 

 villous, never quite glabrous; bracteoles 8-3, J in., or 0; pedicels 8-16, §-5 in., 

 all fruiting. Petals emarginate, white greenish or lurid. SyuU ^-^ in., laterally 

 compressed, ridges never prominent sometimes quite obscure, furrows 2-3-vittate ; 

 disc not prominent; carpels J-terete, scarcely subpentagonal, dorsaUy subeom- 

 pressed, inner face plane. — A common and variable plant ; the north-west examples 

 frequently have the peduncles rays and fruits very villous' and the leaves glabrous 

 above. The Khasian have deeply cordate leaflets and papillose-rugose fruit : from 

 these P. numoica Dalz. differs only by the minute fruits and the barren outer pedicels. 



Vae. 1 . dlpina ; petals ovate acute plane, young ovary glabrous, fruit shining yel- 

 low-brown glabrous much attenuated upwards. P. trifoliata. Wall. Cat. 565 (type 

 «pecime»).--Siktim, alt. 9-10,000 ft. — Eays of the umbel pubescent. 



Vae. 2. divisa ; lower cauline leaves pinnate and 2-pinnatifid, young fruit terete 

 clavate upwards, disc yeUow-brown. Pimpinella sp. 5 Herb. Ind. Or. H. f. ^ T. — 

 Kashmir and Kistwar, alt. 7000-8000 ft., Thomson. — Probably a new species but 

 there is no ripe fruit. 



17. F. Stracbeyi, C. B. Clarke; leaves simple and 3-partite leaflets 

 ovate pubescent, fruit oblong narrowed at both ends, style-bases cylindiic apex 

 conical. — Pimpinella sp. 3, Herb. Ind. Or. B.f. Sr T. 



KuMAON ; Dhauli Biver, Samangentha, alt. 7500 ft., Strachey ^ Winterbottom. 



Generally resembling P. diversifolia on a small scale ; stems 6-16 in., grey-viUous, 

 as the Kumaon examples of P. diversifolia generally are. Fruit \ in. ; carpels terete, 

 ridges slender, furrows 2-vittate. Young ovary villous. Fruit ultimately glabres- 

 cent shining yellow-brown. — Nearly allied to No. 22, P. cass^tosa. 



18. t P. Paristaiana, Kurz in Joum. As. 80c. 1872, pt. ii. 309, and 

 1877, pt. ii. 115 ; leaves pinnate or 2-3-partite leaflets ovate acute serrate or 

 laciniate, bracts 2-6 almost sheathing the rays, ovary minutely pubescent. 



MoTTLMEiN, and Maetaban, Kwz ; on the Zwabakin ; Pa/rish. 



Habit of P. diversifolia, much divided and very leafy upwards. Leaflets 1-2 by 



