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-1. P. grraveolens, Benth. in Gen. Pi. i. 919; bracts and Bracteoles 0, 

 petals yellow, fruit | by ^^ in. narrowly winged plano-convex 2-3 times as 

 broad as thick. P. Sowa, Kurz in Joum. As. Soc. 1877, pt. ii. 116. Anethum 

 gmveolens, Linn.-, DC. Prodr. iv. 186; Wall. Cat. 7210; Boiss. FL Orient, ii. 



^f. ^' ^"^^^^ ^^^^'^' -^^^^- ^^ff' 22, FL Ind. ii. 94 ; Fleming Cat. Ind. 

 Med. PL 5; WalL Cat 695; DC. B^odr. iv. 186; W. ^ A. Prodr. 372; 

 Wight Ic. t. 672. . ,. : .V. 



Throughout tropical and subtropical India; often cultivated.— Distrib. Culti- 

 vated in S. Europe and W. Asia. 



G-labrous, 1-3 ft. Leaves 2-3-p]nnate. Pedicels many, i in. Styles small. 

 X)orsal and intermediate ridges distinct, slender; vittse large, solitary in each furrow, 

 2 on the commissure. — The fruits are as broad and as much winged in the Indian 

 r* 8owa as in the ordinary P. graveolens: never subobsolete, as shown in W?ghf Ic. 

 ^' "72. In the European P. graveolens the carpels are plano-convex, and not so sub- 

 pentagonal as depicted by Eeichenbach, as Bentham has observed Lc. 



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Ultimate segynents of the leaves J-2 in.^ linear-oblong or ovate, entire or 

 fmnotdy sparingly toothed) bracts or ve7y small. 



2. P. Dhana, Ham. in Wdl. Cat. 7216; leaves twice or thrice 3-partite 

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NoRTH-WKST India ; Sub-sewaliks up to 4500 ft. ; Edgcworth, Kumaon, in the 

 subtropical region ; Strachey ^ Winterhottom. North Bengal; Goruckpore, Zfo/^e/- 

 ^o» ; Dinajpur, C. B. Clarke. 



Glabrous, 6-24 in., subnude upwards. Bracts 3-5, \ in., linear or linear- 

 ianeeolate; rays 5-10, 1-2^ in.; bracteoles 4-8, J in., linear; pedicels numerous 

 t in. Flowers small, yellow. Calyx-teeth obsolete. Styles somewhat long. _ Car- 

 ^^fe greatly compressed, subquadrate. tip obtuse, often truncate or emarginate; 

 oorsal and intermediate ridges filiform, subobscure, lateral with a wing as thick as 

 t^e seed; dorsal furrows Ivittate lateral 2-vittate; vittae nearly as long as the 

 ^Pel, commissural 6-4. ■ '- * 



. Var. Dahellii; leaflets shortly oblong or suborbicular. Pastinaca glauca, Bah. 

 *^ HooJc. Kew Joum. iv. 293; Balz. # Gibs. Bomb. FL 107.— Belgaum, BaUell, 

 ^^[chi^. Jubbulpore, McLeod. Chota Nagpore, C. B. C/arA'^.— Leaflets usually 

 i^y i-l in., very unlike those of P. Dhana, but the plants in every other point agree, 

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Glabrous, 2-5 ft. Leaves 2-4-pinnate, much and acutely serrate. Bracts 0, 



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