I-]' lXx. UMBBtLiPEE^.. (0. B. Clairke.) 693 



18. SESEI.X, Linn. 



'S.eths, glabrous or pubescent. Leaves 2-8-pilinate or twice 3-partite. 

 VniSeU compound ; bracts few or many, undivided or pinnate ; braeteoles 

 seTeral or many. Calyx-teeth minute, lanceolate or linear, or 0. Petah 

 emai^ate, white. Fruit oblong ovate or cii-oular, not laterally compressed, 

 broadest at the commissure ; cai-pels ^-terete or (in S. trilobum) much dorsally 

 compressed J inner face plane or (in iS. trUohwrn) concave; ridges strong, 

 obtuse or siibacute, lateral hajdly larger than the dorsal ; vittse in each fiirrow 

 solitary, usually prominent; carpophore 2-partite, 2-fld or entire; disc not 

 ' j^romiilent on the fruit. Seed ^-terete; ia S.trilobwm dorsally compressed, 

 mner fa<!e excavated. — Disteib. Species 40; in the N. temperate zone of the 

 Old World ; with 2 doubtful Australian. 



1. S. sibiricum, Benah. in Gen. PI. i. 901 ; lower leaves 2-pinnat6 

 secondary pinnse large ovate toothed and pinnatifid sessile or decurrent, calyx- 

 teeth triangular minute deciduous, fruit oylindric vlUous. Boiss. Fl. Orient: 

 ii, 967. 



West Tibet; Falconer. Kashmie; Jacqmmont. Kishtwar, alt. 7000-8000 ft., 

 Thomson. — Distrie. Asia, Bussia. 



Minutely pubescent or nearly glabrous, 2-4 ft. Lo'sf'er leaves often 1 ft., upper 

 often pinnate; pinnae some-what firm in texture, subspinulose, secondary 1-2 in. 

 'Bracts usually or 1; in the Siberian examples sometimes many; rays 15-40, 

 \-1\ in., pubescent; braeteoles 6-10, \ in. lanceolate; pedicels 10-23, \-\ in. 

 Young frmt \ in., densely villous, in age less so ; carpels ^-terete, dorsally com- 

 pressed, inner face plane ; epicarp somewhat thickened, ridges strong, subequal, 

 vittse large; carpophore slender, 2-partite. Seed plane on the inner face. 



2. S. Indicum, W. §• A. Prodr. 371 ; lower leaves 2-pinnate secondary 

 pinnae ovate lobed pubescent, calyx-teeth 0, fruit subglobose ridges thick. Oni- 

 dium diffiismn, DC. IVedr. iv. 153 ; Wight Ic. t. 669. Athamantha diffusa, 

 Wall. Cat. 670. Ligusticum indicum. Wall. Cat. 7215. L. diiiusum, Boxb. 

 Sort. Bmff. 21, Fl. Ind. ii. 92. 



Plains of Inbia ; from the foot of the SrwAxrKS to Assam and Coeomasdbl ; fre- 

 quent in Cknteai, Bengal. 



Annual, erect or diffuse, 4-12 in., often much branched. Leaves all similarly out, 

 upper without linear segments. Bracts 4-5, | in., narrowly lanceolate, caudate, 

 pubescent ; rays 8-16, ^--l in. ; braeteoles like the bracts but rather snialler; pedicels 

 8-16, J in. Flowers white or pinkish. FVidt jj-ra '"■ (™ Eoxburgb's drawing 

 copied in W^ht Ic. t. 569) glabrous; in Wail. Cat. 7215, and W. Sf A. Frodr. 371, 

 Very hirsute (and hardly half as large) ; hairs often clubbed or substellate at the 

 apex i jjarpels ^-terete ; vittse distinct ; carpophore entire. — There are examples with 

 fruit flfcermediate between the two extreme types above described. 



3. S. dauclfolium, C. B. ■ Clarke ; leaves 2-3-pinnate ultimate seg- 

 ments linear or narrowly lanceolate, bracts many often divided, fruit globose 

 glabrous. Ammi daucifolium. Wall. Cat. 7209. — Discopleura' sp., Benth. in 

 Gen. Fl. i. 907. 



Bast Bengax ; from Bhotan and Assam to Dacca and Chittagono ; Wallich, &o. 

 -'DiSTBiB. China. 



Annual, erect, 8-16 in., glabrous or nearly so, very leafy upwards. Margin of the 

 leaves minutely' serrulate. Peduncles often leaf-opposed, short, stout ; bracts |-f in., 

 Boaetimes pinnate; rays 8-16, usually shorter than the bracts; braeteoles 6-12, 

 e in., linear; pedicels 10-25, J-^ in. .Calyx-teeth 0. Petals white or pinkish. 



