ArchamgeUca.'] lxx. UMBBLLifERa!. (0. B. Clarke.) 707 



30. ARCKA.NCS'EXiXCA, Hofm. 



Tall perennial herbs. Leaves 2-3-piimate, ultiroate pinnse toothed, usually- 

 large. Umbels compound, rays many; bracts few, small, or 0; bracteoles 

 many, linear, or obsolete. Caiyx-teeth obsolete (in India). Petals ovate, sub- 

 entire, white. Fruit ellipsoid, subquadrate, or oblong ; commissure broad ; 

 carpels dorsally compressed, lateral ridges winged or acute, dorsal and interme- 

 diate narrower, distinct ; vittae many ; carpophore 2-partite. Seed dorsaUy 

 much compressed, inner face plane. — Disteib. Species 6, in North Temperate 



1. A. officinalis, Sqff. PI. Umb. Gen. i. 168 ; leaflets lJ-4 by |-2 in., 

 bracteoles as long as the flowering umbellule, fruit \ in. DC. Prodr. iv. 169. 

 A. decurrens, Ledeb. Ic. Fl. Ross. ii. 21, t. 166. Angelica Archangelica, Lirm. 



Vae. Mmalaica; flowers twice as large, frnit ^ by | in. 



Kashmir; 8-13,000 ft., C. B. Clarke; Aitehieson. Joai; alt. 11,000 ft., Thomson. 

 SnauM; Laehen, alt. 10,000-11,000 ft., J. D. R— Disteib. (of the type) North 

 Europe, Asia, and America. 



Stem S-10 ft. Leaves 1-3. ft., ovate, ultimate pinnae sessile, rarely deourrent,, 

 terminal often 3-lobed. Brads small; rays 10-30, 1^4 in.; pedicels very nume- 

 rous, J-J in. Lateral 'ridges usually winged ; pericarp somewhat corky, easily sepa- 

 rating from the seed ; vittae numerous, smallj on the inner surface of the pericarp. — 

 The fruit of the Himalayan variety is much larger than that of any other ArcJumgdica 

 preserved at Kew. It closely resembles the flowering example of A. decmrens, but 

 in Ledebour's figure of that species its fruit is' no larger than in ordinary A. officinalis. 



31. FERVIiA, 



Perennial herbs. Leaves 2-4?-pinnatifld or 2-4-piimate. Umbels compound. 

 Flowers yellow, often polygamous. Calyx-teeth obsolete. Petals ovate, obtuse, 

 or emargmate. Fruit orbicular or ellipsoid, much compressed dorsally ; lateral 

 ridges winged, dorsal and intermediate filiform or obscure ; vittse many or few ; 

 carpophore 2-partite. Seed much dorsally compressed, inner face plane.— 

 DisiElB. Species 60, in Europe, N. Africa, Central Asia. 



Ferula is difSoult to separate from Pe-ucedantm,. The Indian species aU belong to 

 the section Na/rihex. 



Sect. Karthex, Falcmer (Gen.) Segments of the leaves 1-4 in., oblong, 

 often pubescent. Bracts 0, or small, deciduous : bracteoles 0, or very small. 

 Dorsal furrows 1-vittate (rarely a small vitta added) ; lateral 1-2-vittate; com- 

 missure 2-14-vittate. 



1. T. Narthex, Boiss. Fl. Orient, ii. 994 ; secondary and tertiaiy pinnse 

 decuxrent entire or very irregularly crenate-serrate, ovary glabrous, fruit j by | 

 in., vittse manifest broad 1 (rarely 1-2) in the dorsal furrows. Fliich. Sr Hanb. 

 Pharm. 280; Bmtl. ^ Trim. Med. PI. t. 126. Narthex Asafoetida, Falc. in 

 Trans. Linn. Soc. xx. 285; Bot. Mag. t. 5168; Balf. in Trans. M. Soc. Edmb. 

 xx. 366, tt. 21, 22. 



BALTISTH4N ; Astor, Falconer. 



Stem S-8 ft. Leaves pubescent, at least when young ; lower leaves 1-2 ft., ovate ; 

 cauline sheaths large, from which spring simple or scarcely compound umbels. 

 Terminal imhd large, compound, leafless. Vitta broad, usually occupying the whole 

 ftrrow, and as long as the carpel; commissural usually i, 2 slender sometimes added. 



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