Megacarpaea bifida Benth. in Hooker's J. Bot. Kew Garden Misc. 7: 357. 1855; Hook. f. & T. Anderson in Fl. Brit. India 1: 161. 1872.

Herbs, perennial, robust, much branched, up to 60 cm high glabrous or subhairy. Cauline leaves petiolate, pinnately lobed, 20 - 30 x 5 - 20 cm; lobes lanceolate, more or less glabrous. Racemes much-branched, panicled, reaching up to 50 cm long in fruit; pedicels linear, recurved, glabrous, 2 - 2.5 cm long in fruit. Sepals obovate to elliptic-obovate, 3 - 5 x 3 - 3.5 mm, distinctly veined. Petals obovate or elliptic-oblong, attenuate at base, sometimes expanded and obtuse at apex, 3.5 - 5.5 x 2 - 4 mm. Stamens 7 - 11. Fruits conspicuously bifid; lobes diverging, obovate-oblong, 3 - 4.25 x 2 - 2.7 cm along with the wing; wing about half as broad as the locule. Seeds obovate, black, ca 1.5 x 0.75 cm.

Fl. & Fr. June - Aug.

Distrib. India: Jammu & Kashmir.

Pakistan and China (W. Tibet).