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Glabrous hej'ba, or shrubs. 

 bracteoles foliaceous, or setaceous, or 0. 

 or subsessile. 



Leaves entire. Umbels compouud ; bracts and 



Flowers yellow or lurid, pedicelled 



JStt/les short. D^uit 



Calyx'teeth 0. Petals obovate, emarginate. 

 laterally compressed, sligbtly constricted at tlie commissure ; carpels terete or 

 subpentagonal ; primary ridges distinct, sometimes subalate, rarely obscure ; 

 secondary 0, or obscure ; vittae 1-3 between tbe primary ridges, rarely or 

 many ; carpophore entSre 2-fid or 2-partite. Disc depressed, rarely prominent 

 in fruit. Seed terete, sometimes slightly grooved on the inner face. — DisiRiB. 

 Species 60, European and temperate Asiatic: 1 South African, 1 Arctic 

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 broadly oblong obtuse mucronate, bracts 3-5 elliptic foliaceous, fruit \ in. 

 oblong subquadrate subalate, furrows 1-vittate. 



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Mts. of the Deccan Peninsttla; Nilghiris, alt. 6000-8000 ft., Wight, &c. ;" 

 Stout, bushy, 2-7 ft. Lower leaves linear-oblong; upper cauline 2-4 by f-U "^•' 

 subsessile, shortly narrowed at the base; nerves 10-30, subpalmate; secondary nu- 



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oblong-elliptic, mucronate; rays 6-12, grooved; pedicels 4-12, 



fruit. Carpdf strongly pentagonal; ridges thick, obtuse, suborbicular, eorKy; ^^' 



aueescent. vittae verv larffe : carnonhore 2-fid. often 2-partite. Seed subterete. 



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 deeply but obtusely 5-ridged. 



2. B. lanceolatum, Wall Cat 551 ; middle cauline leaves petioled 

 ovate or broadly lanceolate, bract 1 small lanceolate or 0, fruit ovoid-oblong, 

 ridges obscure, furrows 3-vittate. BC. Frodr. iv. 132. "; 



North-west Himalaya ; from Kashmir to Nipal, alt. 4000-9000 ft., common 

 Perennial, 1-5 ft., erect, nearly simple, or sometimes subpanicled with sprea 



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line 3-5 by |-3 in., ovate, acuminate, occasionally rounded at the base, 

 subpalmate; secondary nerves numerous, distinct, reticulate. Bracts \ 



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bracteoles less than | in., linear, usually' obsoiete' in the fruit; rays 5-8, unequa , 

 pedicels 6-12, ^ in., subequal. Fruit ^-\ in. Carpels mucli incurved when n^^ 

 yello-wish-brown, subviscid; ridges distinct in imperfectly ripe fruit, email ooso 

 in the fully ripe ; carpophore entire. Seed terete. 



3. B. CandoUil, Wall Cat 552; upper cauline leaves subsessUe oblon? 

 or ovate hardly cordate lower linear-oblong, bracteoles 4-5 elliptic or od e 

 usually as long as the flowering umbellule, fi'uit ellipsoid-oblong, ridges pr 

 nent, furrows 3-vittate. DC. Frodr. iv. 131. :; , 



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 the base, subsessile or sessile and amplexicaul; primary nerves 8-12, ^i^^ ^ ^^ 0, 

 nate, oblique ; transverse nerves numerous, distinct, reticulating. Bracts * ^.^^^qs, 

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 '" — ently longer than the fruiting umbellule ; rays 5-8, rather short ; P^^i^^ ^e or 

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