694 Lxx. TJMBELLIFEES, (C. B. Clarke.) ISesdi. 



Fruit much like 8. indicum. but smaller and quite glatrous; ridges snbequa,!. — 

 Wt . Bentham did not possess -well-ripeaed fruit when he referred this species to 

 Ditcopleura. Hance referred the CSunese examples doubtfully to Cnidium Monmeri, 

 Cuss. ; DC. Fro^. iv. 152 ; to which Seseli daticifolmm bears a general resemblance ; 

 but it is more leafy upwards with short peduncles, and the fruit is much smaller 

 and not dorsally compressed. 



4. S. trUobum, Benth. in Gen. PI. i. 901 ; lower leaves 2-pinnate or 

 twice 3-partite, secondary pinnse ovate lobed petioluled villous or tomentose 

 beneath, calyx-teeth subulate minute deciduous, fruit ovate acute vOlous. Sca- 

 phespeimum trilobum, Edgw. in Trans. lAnn. Soc. xx. 58. 



North-West Himalaya ; Km, alt. 8000-10,000 ft., Edgeworth. Guewhai,, Fal- 

 coner. KuMJiON ; MiUem, alt. 11,000 ft., Strachey ^ Winterbottom. 



Stem. 8-24 in., villous and little leafy upwards. Leaves minutely pubescent above ; 

 secondary pinnee J-J in., crenate-serrate or irregularly lobed. Bracts 3-5, J in. ; 

 rays 5-10, 1-2 in.; bracteoles 5-8,^-^ in., Unear; pedicels 10-20, ^J in. Fruit 

 h~R "••' ''^'' little longer than broad ; carpels convexo-concave, much dorsally com- 

 pressed ; ridges strongly marked, subequal, vittse prominent ; carpophore deeply 

 2-fid. Seed excavated on the inner face, difTering thus from aU other species of 

 Seseli. — Perhaps a Fycnocycla. 



19. FYCHOCVCXiA, Undl. 



Perennial herhs ; branches rush-like, few-leaved. Leaves pinnately dissected, 

 ultimate segments narrow. Rays of the umbels very short ; bracts and bracteoles 

 many, small; umbellules containing one central sessile fertile flower, and 

 several pediceUed males. Calyx-tuhe hairy; teeth small, lanceolate, often 

 imequal. Petals obovate, emarginate, hairy. Frtdt oblong-lanceolate, hairy, 

 terete (one carpel is frequently aborted), surrounded by the inflated pedicels of 

 the barren flowers, receptacle not (or very obscurely) enlarged ; carpophore ; 

 carpels ^-terete, inner face deeply grooved; primary ridges filiform, minute, 

 lateral at the margin of the broad commissure ; vittse numerous, very slender, 

 usually 1 under each primary ridge and several still more minute scattered 

 in the endocaip. Seed lunate or with a T-shaped groove on the inner face. — 

 DisiKlB. Species 7, in N.B. Africa and W. and Central Asia. 



Whether one or more flowers in each umbellule perfect seed is hardly a character 

 of generic importance in this order, as may be seen in GhsrophyUmn, wherein C. re- 

 flexwn is hardly separable specifically from C. villosum. If this point be with- 

 drawn from the generic character of Fycnocycla, it will include SeseU trilobum, 

 Benth. 



1. F. g'lauca, Lindl. in Eoyle III. 232, t. 61 ; branches slightly pubes- 

 cent, ultimate segments of the leaves long-linear subterete, umbels on long pu- 

 bescent peduncles. Siej-n in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. iii. 8. P. abyssinica, SfccAk. ; 

 A. Rich. Fl. Abyss, i. 333. 



Nobth-Wbst India, Boyle ; Sutledge banks, Falconer. JijBBni.pOEE ; Beddome. 

 Satpdea TTtt.t,3, G. Thomson. — Disteeb. Abyssinia. 



Branched from the base, 1-2 ft. ; branches terete, striate, subglaucous. Badical 

 leaves long-petioled, pinnately dissected ; segments remote, glabrous or nearly so ; 

 cauline sinular, but smaller more shortly petioled. Umbels in flower ^ iu. diam., 

 resembling those of a Scabiosa ; bracts 5-6, ^ in., oblong-linear or linear, hairy ; 

 bracteoles similar but smaller ; rays 3 in., hairy ; pedicels hairy. Flowers in tie 

 umbellule about 9 ; petals white, with reddish midrib, hairy. Fruit J by A in. ; 

 carpel with a T-shaped groove on the inner face. — Beddome's examples have the two 

 carpels producing perfect and similar seeds. 



