Ghmroipliyl'hm,.'] Lxx. miBELLiFEEiE. (C. B. Clarke.) 691 



the lower ultimate segments small, fruit oblong scarcely beaked. DC. Prodr 

 iv. 226. 



HiMAiATA, from Kashmir to Sikkim ; alt. 5000-12,000 ft., frequent. Khasia 

 Mts., alt. 4000-6000 ft., frequent. 



Boot fusiform. Stem 1-4 feet, erect, branched, always hispid below, often hairy- 

 upward. Lemes large, secondary pinnae of the upper pinnate or pinnatifid, ultimate 

 segments scarce J in., with 2-4 lanceolate teeth, often with scattered hairs ; segments 

 of the lowest often 1-3 by 1 in. pinnatifid scarcely half-way down ; upper sheaths 

 usually inflated, hairy, with prominent white margins. Bracts ; rays 3-6, 1-3 in., 

 stout ; bracteoles 2-5, i-| in., linear, often white margined, soon reflexed ; pedicels 

 10-15, often 3-8 fruiting. Fruit §■ in., equally broad its whole length, narrowed 

 somewhat suddenly at the tip. 



2. C. reflexum, Lindl. in Royle III. 232: glabrous or very sparsely 

 pilose, upper leaves 2-piimate more finely divided than the lower ultimate seg- 

 ments small, fruit oblong narrowed into a thick cylindric beak. C. villosum, 

 Wdll. Cat. 568 in part. 



North-west Himalaya ; from Daihotisie to Kiimaon ; alt. 5000-9000 ft., frequent. 



Much leSs hairy than C. villosum, the fruit larger, and usually 1 (sometimes 2-3), 

 ripen in each umbeUule ; pedicels of the other flowers being reflexed, as sometimes 

 in a much less degree in C. villosum. Fruit J-J in., beat J in. ; vittse of the com- 

 missure 2, in the narrow part of the groove. 



3. C. acuminatum, Lindl. in Royle Ml. 232; more or less hairy, 

 upper leaves 1-2-pinnate pinnsB large oblong closely regularly falcate-serrate, 

 fruit oblong narrowed close under the style-bases. 



Himalaya from Kashmir to Kumaon ; alt. 5000-9000 ft., frequent. 



Stem 2-4 ft., usually with some long white hairs. Lower leaves often with ulti- 

 mate pinnae 2 by J in., oblong, acute, upper reduced with narrower segments. 

 Umbels bracts bracteoles and fruit much resembling those of C. villosum; petals 

 somewhat larger, often somewhat radiant ; fruits smaller (J in.) fewer (often 2-3) to 

 the umbeUule. — Closely allied to C. villosmn, though very different in the cutting of 

 the leaves. Lindley puts it next C. arotimticum, Jacq., but it more resembles C. 

 atiream, Linn. 



4. C< capnoides, Bemth. in Gen. PI. i. 898 ; root tuberous, leaves 1-2- 

 pinnate idtimate segments oblong entire, fruit oblong-lanceolate vittse 0. 

 Hutinia capnoides, Dene, in Jacquem. Voy. Bat. 70, t. 80. 



Kashmik ; Jacquemont. Kishtwae and Banahal ; alt. 6000-8000 ft., Thomson. 



Nearly glabrous. Stem 12-24 in. Leaves 4-8 in., lax, ovate ; ultimate segments 

 i~4 hy |-i in., undulate, mucronate. Bracts ; rays 4-8, 1-3^ in., stout ; brac- 

 teoles 4-7, J in., lanceolate; pedicels 6-12, J-1 in., most of them fruiting. Fruit J 

 in., black, minutely punctate, very much constricted at the commissure, narrowed 

 upwards, scarcely beaked ; style-bases narrow, conical ; carpels subtrapezoid from the 

 extreme narrowing of the inner face ; furrows subconcave, epicarp thin, no trace of 

 vittse. — The Algerian Balansaa Fontanesii, Boiss. & Eeut., said hardly to differ from 

 this by Benth., I. c, apart from the crenate lobed leaflets, the large style-bases, and 

 other prominent specific marks, has the fruits broadly grooved on the very wide com- 

 missure, and has large vittse. 



5. C. cacbemiricum, C.B. Clarke; upper leaves sub-2-pinnate secondary 

 pinnse oblong deeply toothed or subpiimatifld, fruit oblong-lanceolate, ridges 

 obscure. 



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