Pleurosperimim.] lxx. UMBELLifEEai. (0. B. Clarke.) 705 



■ otlong white-margined obtuse lobed or very shortly pinnatifld at the apex, fruit 

 J in. ellipsoid somewhat longer than hroad, epicarp of very lax tissue, seed grooved 

 on the inner face. Selinum stellatum, Don Prodr. 185 ; DC. Prodr. iv. 165. 

 Hymenolsena steUata, lAndl. in Royle Ml. 23.3. 



North-west Himalaya ; Royle. Kumaon; Milam Glacier, alt. 13,000 ft., Strachey 

 .Sf Winterbottom. 



Stem 1-6 in. Lecmes 2-4 in., oblong ; pinnae ovate, acutely serrate, or subflabel- 

 lately pinnatifld or nearly 2-pinnat6 with muoronate lobes. Bracts 1-4, J-1^ in., 



■ pinnatifld ; rays 3-5, 1-6 in., glabrous ; pedicels very short. ' Fruit dorsally 

 compressed ; style-bases globose, depressed ; calyx-teeth obsolete ; petals often per- 

 sistent. Carpels plane on the inner face ; lateral ridges hardly so wide as the 

 intermediate and dorsal, all obtuse, hollow ; epicarp rugose, but hardly plicate ; far- 

 rows 1-vittate. 



Var. lAndleyana, ; bracteoles entire or slightly lobed, leaves often 2-pinnate ulti- 

 mate segments oblong or obovate obtuse. Hymenolsena Lindleyana, Klotssch in 

 Beis. Pr. Waldem. Bot. 150, t. 49. H. nana, Osten-SacJeen ^ Buprect Sert. Ttamsha/ii. 

 49. Hymenolsena, sp. No. 9, Herb. Ind. Or. H.f. ^ T. ? Aulaoospermum simplex, 

 Ost. ^ Bup. I.e. — West Himalaya, alt. 13,000-16,000 ft.; Kashmir, Thomson. 

 Lahtjx ; Bev. 3". Jaeschke. — ^Distrib. Karakorum (Northern slope) ; Tianschan Mts. — 

 Except as to the obtuse (not mucronate) ultimate segments of the leaflets, there 

 seems no difference between this and P. stellatum type. Of AidaaosperTilmin sim- 

 plex, the authentic example has the fruit not half-ripe, the bracteoles are rather 

 smaller. 



11. F. apiolens, C. B. Clarke ; leaves pinnate pinnas ^-1^ in. ovate 

 often pinnatifld with 3--6-7 lobes, bracteoles 6-10 obovate caudate often toothed 

 near the apex, calyx-teeth obsolete, fruit J-^ in. ellipsoid subquadrate. — Hyme- 

 nolsena sp. 10, Herb. Ind. Or., H.f. 8r T. 



Interior valleys of Siratm, alt. 11,000-14,000 ft. ; J.B. H. ; Elwes; C. B. Clarke. 



Stem 3-18 in. Leaves 4—8 in., oblong, mucronate-serrate. Bracts 4-5, |-li in., 

 obovate-laneeolate, toothed, sometimes slightly pinnatifld, rarely subtotire ; rays 

 8-16, 1-2 in. ; pedicels many, scarcely \ in. in fruit, much shorter than the brac- 

 teoles. Carpels dorsally compressed; epicarp loose but not of open tissue; ridges 

 narrowly winged, subequal; furrows 1-vittate. Seed twice as broad as thick, inner 

 face exactly plane. — Smells of celery (J. D. H.). 



12. P. Hoolceri, C. B. Clarke ; leaves 2-3-pinnate ultimate pinnae 

 \-h in", ovate or oblong toothed or pinnatifld, bracteoles 6-10 obovate-laneeolate 

 subentire white-margined, calyx-teeth ovate. — Hymenolsena sp. 8, Herb. Ind. 

 Or., H.f. 8f T. Oreocome sp. 1, Herb. Ind. Or. H.f. Sf. T. 



SiKKDi, alt. 10,000-16,000 ft. ; J. B. H. 



Stem 8-20 in. Leaves 6-12 in., ovate, mucronate-serrate. Bracts 4-7, 1-lJ in. 

 lanceolate, often toothed or pinnatifld at the apex ; rays 4-8, 1-3 in. ; pedicels very 

 many, ^-l in., shorter than the bracteoles. Petals persistent. Fruit not ripe, but 

 will be nearly as in the var. Thomsoni. 



Vae. Thomsoni ; bracteoles narrowly lanceolate (not at all obovate) narrow and 

 narrowly white-margpned often not prominent. West Tibet, alt. 14,000-16,000 ft., 

 Thomson; Shelshed Kiver, alt. 15,500 ft., Straehey ^ Winterbottom. — Fruit ^ in., 

 ■ellipsoid; epicarp loose but not of open tissue ; ridges thin, narrowly winged,' lateral 

 a little broadest. Seed plane on the inner face or nearly so. — United with P. Hookeri 

 byH. f. & T. in Herb, and it agrees with it as to the ovate calyx-teeth, but differs in 

 the much smaller bracteoles and the remote locality. It has been placed next Selimmi 

 tenuifolimn by H. f & T. (mss.) and its bracts and bracteoles are hardly more promi- 

 nent than in that species : but P. Hookeri type must be placed in Plemospermwm, 

 which here touches Selinum. 



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