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Cnidium ubadakense Making in Bot. Mag., Tokyo, XXV. 

 (1911), p. 396 (Miscel). 



Perennial, about l-'J^ dccim. in height ; tap-root thick, per- 

 pendicular or obliquely so, elongate gradually attenuated 

 towards the end, often laxly few-ramose. Stem erect, ilexuous, 

 terete, usually striate above, viridescent and often tinged with 

 purple, glabrous below but densely hispidulous with spreading 

 short pale hairs, loosely ramose above, or ramose from below 

 the middle or from the base; branches alternate, axilhuy, erect- 

 patent, simple or hardly ramulose above, remotely with 1-2 

 sheaths, longer than the leaves. Leaves sub-deltoid in outline, 

 ternately 3-4-deep- parted into the angustate segments (lA-5 cm. 

 long), which are again loosely parted into the narrow sharp- 

 tipped lacina and sharp tipped teeth, green and minutely short- 

 hispidulous on the midrib and main veins above, paler and 

 nervate beneath ; primary segment long-petiolulate, deltoid-ovate 

 in outline; 2nd segments usually also petiolulate, deltoid-ovate; 

 3rd segments usually shortly petiolulate; 1st 2nd and 3id 

 petiolules all erect-patent, glabrous; rachis slender, glabrous; 

 common petiole often long (sometimes entirely transformmg 

 into a sheath) in the radical and lower leaves and attaining 

 about 16icm. long, sheathing at the base; superior leaves 

 gradually smaller, the blade much reduced and depauperate near 

 the umbel; the petiole entirely transforming into an inflated 

 membranaceous sheath; sheath erect-patent or spreading or 

 reflexo-patent, elliptical to oblong or obovato-oblong, obtuse, 

 veined, viridescent and ofteg purpurascent, about 1-5 cm. long, 

 amplexicaul at the base but slightly so in the upper ones. 

 Umbel rather long peduncled, compound, middling-sized; rays 

 about 14-27, erect-patent or spreading, slender, hispidulous with 

 short pale hairs in front, unequal in length; involucre often 

 none or sometimes very few, angustate, simple or few-laciniate 

 above, spreading or reflexed ; urabellula many-flowered, involu- 

 cellate; involucels several, spreading or reflexed, shorter or 

 longer than the 2nd-rays, angustately linear, simple or often 3- 

 laciniated above, viridescent and sometimes shaded with purple, 

 glabrous; 2nd-rays unequal in length, spreading in the outer 



