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H m., sparingly pubescent, very irregularly cut, sometimes pinnatifid. Umbels 

 pubescent, nearly as in P. diversifolia, but with bracts and prominent bracteoles. 

 Bracts ^-\ in., pubescent, lanceolate or the bases broad and subconnate ; bracteoles 

 very similar, exceeding the flowering umbellules. Fruit not seen.— This resembles 

 P^diversifolia, differing in the more developed involucres: in the absence of ripe 



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V 19. P. tomentosa, Dalz, nis.-y lower cauliue leaves 2-3-pinnate ulti- 

 niate leaflets ovate acutely laciniate, fruit narrowly oblong attenuate upwards 

 scabrid with many ascending ovate small scales. — Pimpinella sp. 8, IFerb, Ind, 

 Or. K. f. Sf T. ? Heracleum tomentosum, Dak. & Gibs. Bomb. FL 108, 313 

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Bombay (probably in the Ghats) Dahell; Concan, Stocks. * ' 



Pubescent, somewhat villous upwards, hardly toraentose. Stem 2-4 ft., much 

 branched upwards. Lower leaves large, ovate, ultimate leaflets 1 in., petioluled, ser- 



often reduced to sheaths. Bracts 0; rays 4-8, 



, _ very small linear; pedicels 3-10, ~^ in. Fruit ^ in., 



^most rostrate, laterally compressed, hardly constricted at the commissure ; style- 

 oases elongate, conical, yellow-brown ; carpels terete, obscurely pentagonal ; ridges 

 ^ery obscure, furrows 2-3-vittate; carpophore slender, 2-fid. 



-.*«^v,uo^ u^jwax'us. juuwer leaves n 

 rated with very long teeth ; upper 

 Jin.; bracteoles 0, or 1-2 very smi 



20. p. adscendenSy Ddz. in Hook. Kew Joum. ii. 261 : lower cauline 

 leaves oblong pinnate pinnae ovate or round rarely 3-parlite, fruit ovate 

 Minutely pilose. Dalz. ^ Gibs. Bomb. FL 106. . 



BoMBAT, Dalsell; Nasik, Edgeworth; Belgaxjm, Dr. Ritchie \ Concan, Stocks. 



Minutely pubescent or glabrous. Stems many, 8-24 in. Lower leaves with 4-8 

 pair of pinnae, terminal leaflet often large, pinnae \-l in. diam., acutely serrate ; 

 ^Pper leaves reduced, often more divided. Bracts 4-7, |-^ in., linear; rays 4-12, 

 J in., glabrous ; bracteoles 4-7, ^ in., linear, minutely ciliate-pubescent ; pedicels 

 }^^ i-6 in. Fruit -^ in., brown, hardly acute, laterally compressed, disc not pro- 

 minent; carpels terete, hardly pentagonal, not dorsal ly compressed; ridges obscure; 

 furrows 2-3-vittate. 



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)f the lower leaves lanceolate of the upper linear 



f^fiTiselv covered with sinall jrranular tubercles." 



^EccAN ; in ravines, common ; Dalzell. 

 ^- -PuLerulous, l_li ft., erect. Peduncles long, slender, leaf-opposed; umbels 3-10; 

 ota«ts 3-7, subulate; bracteoles 7, subulate, as long as the pedicels. Flowirs 

 pink.— Not seen ; the above copied from Dalzell. 



.22. P. ceespitosa, Benth. in Gen. PL I 895; pubescent, lower leaves 

 r^»g pinnate pinnre ovate, bracts 4-5 ^jnear-Ianceolate villou.", fruit oblong, 

 i?rrows l-vittate. Petrosciadium csespitosum, Edmo. m Trans. Lmn, Soc. xx. 



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, ^ckwhal; Niti, alt. 12,000 ft., Edgeworth, Sirachei/ f mntcrbottom. Kunawtk 

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p,. Sootntock short, woody, branched. Stems many, 4-8 m., sparmgly leafy upwards 

 pnn<e of the lower leaves i-f in. diam., coarsely serrate, hardly mucronate, some 

 "tt'.eslobed or 3-fid. Bracts i-} in.; rays 4-6, f in., with much spreadii 

 ^'iite hair; bracteoles 4-6, i in., lanceolate; pedicels 6-12, i in. Fruit Jj-jV m., 



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