692 Lxx. UMBBLLiFEEa!. (0. B. Clarke.) [GhcBrophylium. 



North- -WEST Himaiatas ; Dalhoiisie, alt. 7000 ft. ; C. B. Clarke. 



Stem 2-3 ft., hispid with reflexed hairs. Sraots ; rays S-8, J-1 in. ; brao- 

 teoles 1-4, ^ in., linear, obscure ; pedicels 12, the central alone fruiting. £Vuit ^ in. ; 

 carpels terete; ridges so obscure that the species should perhaps be referred to 

 Anthriseus ; farrows l-vittate, no vittse in the groove. 



Var. dissecta ; glabrous, leaves 3-pinnate finely cut, fruit nearly | in. sometimes 

 2 to the umbellule.— Kashmir, Sind Valley, alt. 12,000 ft., 0. B. Clarke. — Rays longer 

 and stouter than in the type. Perhaps a distinct species, but the fruit closely agrees 

 with that of C. cachemiricum except that it is a little larger. 



16. SCANDXX, Linn. 



Annual herbs. Leaves pinnately decompoirad, ultimate segments small, 

 narrow. Umiels compound or simple; bracts 1 or 0, bracteoles several. 

 Flowers white, polygamous, often radiant. Calyx-teeth 0, or minute. Petals 

 emarginate. IBVuit oblong, laterally compressed, beak many times longer than 

 the seed ; carpels terete or dorsaUy subcompreased, with a T-sbaped groove 

 on the inner face; primary ridges distinct, broad or narrow, secondary 0; 

 vittsB solitary in each furrow, slender, or ; carpophore undivided or 2-fid. 

 Seed terete, dorsally subcompressed. — ^Disieib. Species 10 ; all northern, mostly 

 Mediterranean. 



1. S. Pecten-veneris, lAnn.; DC. Prodr. iv. 221; bracteoles lan- 

 ceolate often incised or lobed at the apez, beak of the fruit dorsally compressed 

 hispidulous on the margins, fruit 1-2 in. Boiss. Fl. Orient, ii. 914 



EIashmib; alt. 5000-6000 ft., Falconer, Thomson. PtrwjAB; Salt HiUs, Clegkom, 

 Aitchison, Jameson. — Disteib. Cabul to Western Europe. 



Stem 6-12 in., glabrous or pilose as are the leaves. Umbels simple or compound, 

 short-peduncled ; bracteoles J in., lanceolate, pubescent or cUiate ; pedicels 3-8, 

 hardly ^ in. in fruit. Beak of Jruit twice as long as the seed ; ridges broad, 

 obtuse. 



17. AKTBRXSC1TS, Soffin. 



Herbs. Leaves 2-3-pinnate, ultimate segments pinnatifid or toothed, often 

 broad. Umbels compound ; bracla 1-2 or ; bracteoles several, imdivided. 

 Flowers white, often polygamous. Calyx-teeth 0, or minute. Petals emargi- 

 nate. Fruit oblong or ovate-oblong, narrowed shortly at the apex, lateraUy 

 compressed, constricted at the commissure; often scabrous; carpels terete or 

 dorsally subcompressed, with a T-sbaped groove on the inner face ; primary 

 ridges not prominent, vittae solitary in each furrow, minute, or ; carpophore 

 undivided or 2-fid. Seed terete, dorsally subcompressed. — Disteib. Species 

 10, the north temperate regions of the Old World, 1 extending to North-west 

 America. 



1. A. nemorosa, Spreng. PI. Umb. Pi-odr. 27 ; rays 10-15 stout glabrous, 

 bracteoles 6-7 lanceolate pubescent, fruit ovate-oblong clothed with ascending 

 hispid hairs. DC. Prodr. iv. 223; Boiss. Fl. Orietd.ii. 911. 



Kashmie, alt. 7000-11,000 ft. ; plentiful. — Disteib. N. Asia to E. Europe. 



Stem 5-8 ft., sparingly hairy. Leaves large with large pinnse and Sfigments, 

 glabrous, or pubescent beneath. Bracteoles ^ in. Flowers often radiant. Fruits 

 I in., numerous in each umbellule, black, minutely puncticulate as weU as promi- 

 nently hispid, ridges acute at the apex. 



