1.] Lxx. TJMBEiLiFBEJ). (C. B. Clarke.) 701 



foUim; upper reduced; primary pinnae sometimes sessile on the sheath. Sracts few, 

 usually inconspicuous; hracteoles 8-12, ^-1 J in., usually exceeding the umbellule. 

 Cahlje-teeth long linear lanceolate. , FrvM suhquadrate, longer than broad, 3 dor- 

 sal ridges approximate. Seed plane on the inner face, or slightly concave. — The 

 Herharium specimens are largely mixed with fruits of 8. elatvm: and Edgeworth'p 

 ■descriptions of the fruit and bracteoles seem taken from these : the true plant has 

 very large compound bracteoles, and the above description of the fruit is of ripe ones 

 attached to unmistakable leaves. Mr. Bentham has referred it to lAgmtimm, from 

 the leaves approaching the Indian lAgjisticwms and the obsolete vittse; but the com- 

 pound bracteoles and long calyx-teeth refer it to Selimm,. 



5. S. papyraceum, C. B. Clarke; tertiary pinnae J in. ovate serrate or 

 ,lialf-pinnatifid into lanceolate segments, fruit |^ iii. much dorsally compressed, 

 lateral wings papery vvider than the 3 dorsal, dorsal furrows 1-vittate lajteral 

 usually 2-vittate, seed in horizontal section elliptic twice as broad as thick. 



From Baltisthan and Kashmib to Sikkik, alt. 8000-12,000 ft. ; frequent. 



Eesembling 8. teimifolivm so closely that it is difficult to separate until 

 the fruit is nearly ripe: the leaves are usually less compound, the rays less 

 villous, the bracteoles riot white-margined. Fruit often longer than the umbellule, 

 subquadrate, rather longer than broad, very strongly compressed; lateral ridges, 

 quite unlike the white corky wings of the other Indian Setinwns : 3 dorsal ridges 

 very close together, usually very shiall, but in some examples the intermediate ridges 

 are developed, nearly as wide as the lateral, the dorsal remaining minute. Seed very 

 narrow compared with the breadth of the carpel, commissural vittse close to the 

 carpophore. 



DOUBTFUL SPECIES. 



?S. DiBssCTvit, Wall. Cat. 581; leaves pinnate segments twice pinnatipartite, 

 lobes linear-oblong acute, bracts 0, bracteoles few, flowers yellowish, fruit nearly 

 orbicular narrowly margined, furrows 1-vittate, vittse very distinct, commissural pair 

 close to the carpophore. Peueedanum dissectum, DC. Prodr. iv. 178. — NitAt; 

 Gossain Than, Wallich. Habit of Mtlmsa.^-Th.e sheet in the Wallichian Herbarium 

 contains — 1, a good specimen in flower having 4-8 bracts and prominent bracteoles ; 

 2, a young flowering specimen, exinvolucrate ; 3, a detached umbel in fruit. DCs 

 description, gopied above, appears made up from 2 and 3, excluding 1 ; 1 certainly 

 does not belong to 2, and it is possible that the fruit 3 belongs to neither. 



27. COXtTIA, DC. ' 



Perennial herbs, often nearly stem-less. Leaves 3-4-pinnate, mostly radical, 

 ultim_ate segments linear. Umhds compound, central one often sessile on the 

 rootstock with numerous unequal rays ; bracts » rays and bracteoles jnany, 

 often pinnate or 2-piimate. Calyx-teeth prominent, sub-linear. Petals obovate, 

 emajgjnate, white or purplish. Frmt orbicular or elliptic, much dorsally com- 

 pressed; lateral ridges winged, dorsal and intermediate approximated much 

 narrower sometimes hardly vidnged; dorsal vittse solitary, latei'al solitary or 

 in pairs ; earpophorg 2-partite. Seed much dorsally compressed, inner face 

 plane. — Disteib. Species 2 ; Himalayan. 



This genus only differs from the Indian species of Selinwm in the elongate 

 unequal rays of the umbel ; C. Lmdleyi differs from all the SeUnutm by its compound 

 pinnate bracteoles, C. Hookeri, by being stemless. 



1. C. Zilndleii, DC. Prodr. iv. 187; Jbracteoles 2-pinnate, styles of the 

 fertile flowers stort : fruit commissure 4-vittate. Schultzia ? Lindlei, Wall. Cat.^ 

 589. Athamantha depresga, Don Prodr. 184 (ex Wall. Serb.). 



