lAgusUeym.] lxx. umbellifee^. (0. B. Clarke.) 699 



elata, Edgw. in Tram. Linn. Soc. zi. 55. ? Levisticum strgutum, Lindl. in 

 RoyU Itt. 232. 



North-west Himalaya ; Simla, alt. 7000-8000 ft., Edgewortht Lahtii, ; Jaesohhe. 



Stem 2-3 ft. Lower leaves 12 by 8 in., secondary pinnae distant; upper pinnate 

 or reduced to sheaths. Bracts 1-4, \ in., linear, or ; rays 12-40, 1-1 J In. ; 

 biacteoles 6-12, J in., linear; pedicels very many. Fruit ^-^ in., nearly as in 

 L. margimatmn, but the carpels are longer than broad ; dorsal furrows 2-3-yittate, 

 lateral S-vittate, commissure 6-8-vittate. Seed 4-6 times as broad as thick,'inner 

 face plane. — Edgeworth's description is most accurate; the word bimittatis in the 

 specific character being a misprint for trivittatis. He suggests that it may be the 

 imperfectly described Levisticum argutum, Lindl. 



26. SEIiXNVItl, Xtm. 



Pereimial, branched herbs. Leaves pinnately cpmpoimd. Umbels com- 

 pound; rays niunerous; bracts many, linear or pinnatifid, or few, small, or 0; 

 bracteoles numerous, linear, serrate or pinnatifid, sometimes few small. 

 Calyx-teeth obsolete, or lanceolate or linear. Petals obovate, emarginate, 

 white or yellowish-green. Fi-uit ovoid or subquadrate, commissure broad, 

 more or less dorsaUy compressed or complanate ; lateral primary ridges 

 winged,, corky or papery, dorsal and intermediate ridges approximate, equal or 

 unequal, as wide as the lateral or not, sometimes excurrent, not winged ; dorsal 

 furrows 1-vittate (or rarely 1 large deep-seated 2 small lateral superficial) or 0, 

 lateral furrows 1-4 ■vittate ; carpophore slender, 2-partite ; style-bases not pro- 

 minent in fruit. Seed subterete, or more or less dorsally compressed, inner 

 face plane or slightly concaYOj not grooved. — Disikib. Species 35, chiefly north 

 temperate, with a South Aftican and Andean. 



The Indian species are uniform in habit, having very compound leaves, large 

 umbels with prominent involucres, three approximated ridges excurrent on the back 

 of each carpel, and the seed not grooved on the inner face. Ligmticiim differs by 

 having the dorsal furrows 3-vittate. S. tenuifolivm has the three dorsal ridges not 

 excurrent, often subobsolete, and is therefore hardly different from Angelica. Pim- 

 pinella sikkimensis (p. 685) was referred to Seliwum by Bentham. 



1. S. Striatum, Senth. in Gen. PI i. 914 ; ultimate segments of the 

 leaves | in. narrowly oblong-lanceolate, fruit little dorsally compressed, ridges 

 subequaUy winged, vittse all solitary, seed about twice as broad as tMck. 

 Laaerpitium striatum, Wall. Cat. 683 (not Ligusticum striatum, DC. Prodr. 

 iv. 158). 



Nepal ; Wallich. Keasia Mts. ; alt. 3500-6000 ft., abundant. 



Crlabrous or nearly so ; 1-4 ft., frequently with many withered fibres at the base. 

 Leaves 4-8 in., ovate, 3-4-pimiate, uppermost sheath often extending the whole length 

 of the petiole. Bracts 4-6, i-| in., linear: rays glabrous or obscurely, pubes- 

 cent ; bracteoles 4-8, \ in., linear, minutely white on the margin, hardly serrate, 

 not divided. Calyx-teeth linear, oblong, twice as long as broad. Fruit |-J in., 

 lateral furrows 1-vittate, vittse twice as wide as those in the dorsal; commis- 

 sural vittae 2, wide apart. Seed obscurely 2-grooved on the inner face. — Easily 

 recognised by the little-compressed fruits and seeds. All the specimens are Khasian, 

 except "Wallich's, which have the ultimate segments of the leaves less narrowly cut, 

 showing the secondary nerves impressed: the fruit is exactly as in the Khasian 

 examples. In Ugmsticvm striatmn, DC. Prodr. iv. 158, the furrows are multi -vittate. 

 Bentham, I.e., assuming that DC. possessed the true 8. striatum, points out that he 

 was mistaken on this point. But DC. also says that his lAgustwum striatum had 

 " leaves 2-pinnate the lobes acute entire seldom incised," so that his plant cannot be 



