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fruit J by ;! in. obovate, furrows between the lateral and intermediate ridges 

 2-vittate, commissure 2-vittate.— Heracleum sp, 5^ Herb. Ind. Or. H.f. ^ T. 



^ Khasia Mts., alt. 4000-6000 ft., common. Pegu, alt. 2500-3000 ft., frequent. 



Stem 2-4 ft., villous. Upper leaves 3-fid or 3-partite, pinnse 1-3 in., cordate or 

 ovate-lanceolate, serrate. Bays 6-12, 1^ in.; bracteoles 5-10, \-\ in. Calvx-teeth 

 linear, small. Petals white, of the outer flowers radiant or not. Dorsal and inteiv 

 mediate ridges elevated hardly excurrent, vittse between them 1 rarely 2 ; wing broad 

 with a narrow marginal vitta ; vittae in the furrows between the intermediate and 

 lateral ridges usually 1-3, more than half the length of the mericarp, commissural 

 2, usually more than half as long, 2 fragmentary often added. # 



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Species of Southern India and Ceylon. 



14. K. Kookerianum, TT. Sf A, Prodr, 373; lower leaves undivided 



roundly 3-lobed villous often woolly beneath, upper much reduced often 

 to mere sheaths, bracts not prominent^ fruit \-^ in. broadly elliptic scarcely 

 ol)ovate obtuse at both ends. Pastinaca Hookeriana, Wight Ic. t, 1010. 



NiLGHiRi Mts. ; Wight, Gardner, G, Thomson. 

 • Stem 12-18 in. villous or pubescent, subnude upwards. Leaves 2-4 in. diam,, 

 sometimes peltate, often 3-lobed, lobes 2-8-fid, lobes rounded, crenate, not serrate. 

 i^racts 1-5. f-| in., lanceolate or ; rays 4-10, i-3 in., hairy, unequal, sometimes 

 compound; bracteoles 0-8, 0-^ in., lanceolate or linear, very variable; pedicels 

 ^-10, X in. Calyx-teeth small, lanceolate. Outer /otr^5 of the umbel radiant or 

 not. Fruit obtuse, dorsal and intermediate ridges slender, hardly elevated ; wing 

 broad, with a narrow marginal vitta; vittae solitary in the furrows, large, nearly 

 as long as the carpel, commissural 4-2, the 2 longer extending nearly to its base. — 

 Wstinguished from H. rigens, of which it may be a form, by the undivided leaves: 

 It appears uniformly smaller, more naked upwards, the fruits shining scarcely nar- 

 rowed at the base. 



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■lo. H. rigrens, Wall. Cat. 575;. lower leaves pinnate, pinnfe cs-o rareiy / 

 orMcular villous beneatli upper much reduced, bracts not prominent, frmt 

 ^h\ in. obovate-elUptic. DC. Prodr. iv. 191 ; W. ^ A. Prodr. 373. P H. 

 sprengelianum, Dalz. 8f Gibs. Bomb. Fl 108. Pastinaca rigens, Wight Ic. t. 

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Mrs. of the Dbccan PENmsuiA; Heyne; bottler; Nilghiris and near Courfal- 

 lim, Wioht. Cetlon, Walker, Thwaites (No. 145 partly). 



■ ' Near H. Hookerianum, hut usuaUy larger (2^3 ft.) with larger umbels. Lower 

 [mes 3-12 in. ; pinnce 1-3 in. diam., obtuse, crenate not serrate. Fruit nearly as 

 »> H. Hookerianum hut dull reddish-' ro^vn, often more elongate at the base m 

 which case the vitt^ extend only § the length of the carpel ; commissural vitta? 

 2-6, usually 4. , ^ » 



r Vae. Candolleana; lower leaves 2-pinnate, pinn.-e lo.^?f "e"^'/. 'f/:,^"^^;^ J^^^- 

 Pastinaca CandoUeana, W. # A. Prodr. 372. P. Iigosticifoha, Wight III. t. 116 , tV. 

 t-^I'rodr. 372.— Mts. of the Deccan Peninsula ; plentiful. 



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 or Pimiate, pi°na3 large ovate 3-lobed, fruit i4 m. orbicular or subellipt.c, 

 !ittie in the lateral ihrrows usually 2-3. Ileracleum sp. 11, Herb. Ind. O;. 



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 ^ften un^vLd. up^rmost reduced to sheaths. VM often :n J -arly naked 

 raceme.- .Brac/r 3-5, }-f in., lanceolate ; rays 6-10, l^i >°- bracteoles 



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