J ixx. UMBBLLiFEE^. (0. B. Clarke.) 719 



HiHALATA, alt. 3000-9000 ft. ; from Kashmib to Sikkim, Sequent. — Disteib. N. 

 Asia, Europe, N. Africa. 



Adpressedly hispid ; 1-2 (in the Himalaya 5) ft. Secondary piniKS 1 in., pin- 

 natifid half-way down into lanceolate acute lobes. Umbels long-peduucled, rays 5-12; 

 bracteoles linear, not white-margined. Petals purplish or white, not radiant. Bristles 

 scattered over the whole surface of the fi^^eit, rough, curved or almost hooked, not 

 gloohidiate. 



2. C. leptophylla, Linn. ; DC. Prodr. iv. 216 ; bracts 0, fruit |-^ in., 

 secondary ridges prominent, primary filiform minutely hispid, bristles in 1-3 

 rows. Soiss. Fl. Orient, ii. 1084. 



Kashmie, alt. 4000-6000 ft., Jaeqzcemoni, Thomson. Punjab ; Falconer. — Distbib. 

 W. Asia, S. Europe, N. Africa. 



Resembling C, Anthriscms, but the leaves rather more finely cut, ultimate seg- 

 ments narrower, sometimes almost linear ; fruit larger, bristles longer, shining, 

 scarcely scabrous, subglochidiate. Umbels often lateral, peduncle 1-2 in., stout; 

 rays usually 2-.'i. 



3. C latifolia, Linn. Syst. Nat. n. 205; bracts and bracteoles small 

 oblong -white-membranous, fruit 4 in., primary and secondary ridges equally 

 prominent and aculeate. Tordylium latifolium, Linn. Sp. PI. 345. Turgenia 

 Mfolia, nopn. ; DC. Prodr. iv. 218 ; Bms. Fl. Orient, ii. 1087. 



Kasbmie; Falconer; alt. 5000-8000 ft., frequent, C. B. Clarke. 



Hispid, almost prickly, 4-24 in., rigid, erect or divaricate. ' Leaves 1-2-pinnate, 

 pinnae often 1-2 in., oblong, serrate or pinnatifid half-way to the midrib. Bays 3-4, 

 1-3 in. ; pedicels hardly J as long as the fruit. Carpels with 7 subequally aculeate 

 ridges, the two lateral primary ridges within the commissure less prominent ; bristles 

 stout, rough, curved or nearly straight at the apex, hardly glochidiate. 



37. FSAUXKOGETON, Fdgw. 



A small annual, pubescent or glabrous. Leaves 1-2-pinnate, pinMe laci- 

 niate. Umbels compound; bracts and bracteoles many, small, lanceolate or 

 linear, scarious. Ccdyx-teeth obsolete. Petals obovate, emarginate, white or 

 purplish, not or but slightly radiant in the outer flowers. Frmt small, ovoid 

 or lanceolate commissure slightly constricted ; primary and secondary ridges 

 hairy, elevated, scarcely winged, secondary rather the more prominent ; vittse^ 

 solitary, under the secondary ridges ; carpophore 2-fid. Seed somewhat dorsally' 

 compressed, inner face plane or scarcely concave. 



1. P. bitematum, Fdgw. in Trans. Linn. Soe. xx. 57 ; segments of the 

 lower leaves ovate pinnatifid into narrow lobes of the upper naiTOwly cuneate 

 laciniate, hairs on the ridges white capiteUate 1-seriate scattered longer than 

 the carpel is broad. P. crinitum, JBoiss. Fl. Orient, ii. 1078. PimpineUa crini- 

 tum, Bmss. in Ann. So. Nat. 3rd ser. i. 131. 



Punjab Plain, ascending the Himalaya to 3000 ft.; frequent. Scinde.— Disteib. 

 Beloochistan, Cabul, Persia. 



Stm 2-8 in., divaricately branched, pubescent or grey subtomentose, not villous. 

 Pedwacles 1-3 in., stout, lateral and terminal. Bracts 3-8, i-i in., narrowly lan- 

 ceolate or Unear; rays 5-10, J-1 in.; bracteoles 4-8, i m, lanceolate sheathing 

 the young umbellule; pedicels 6-16, J in. Fruit scarcely i m., lanceolate, thinly 

 haurjr in the Indian plants ; styles very long. ^ , . . .^,. , 



Vae. ? villosa ; much taller with patent soft hairs, ridges of the fruit with several 

 dense rows of often brown hairs.— Scinde, Stocks: a frequent form m Beloochistan 



