Diwertecc i. ^  UMBELLIFER X. Q* 369 
$ 1. Znvoluere and involucel few-leaved. 
*1138. (1) P.? involucrata (W. & A. :) stem erect, dichotomous, glau- 
cous: leaves ternate ; segments cut and pinnated, or sometimes entire in the 
upper leaves ; lobes in the lower leaves linear-oblong and short, in the upper 
oblong-linear and elongated : umbels with 6-8 rays ; leaflets of the involucre 
and involucel few (about 6), subulate, entire, much shorter than the rays: 
styles reflexed : fruit slightly ribbed, minutely muricated all over.— Wight! 
eat. n. 1192, 1193.—A pium involucratum, Roxb. fl. Ind. 2. b. 97; in E. Ei 
mus. tab. 1388.—Athamantha Roxburghiana, Wall.! L. n. 571 .— Ptychotis 
Roxburghiana, DC. prod. 4. p. 109.—Phellandrium, Wall.! L. n. 7217. 
Although we have only seen letter d, at p. 248 of Wall. L. n. 571, we have 
every reason to believe it the same with the others: and on that supposition 
we have referred to De Candolle; but we can scarcely account for his over- 
looking the numerous vittee in the interstices, unléss indeed his specimens 
may not have presented sufficiently advanced fruit, and he had arranged the 
species along with Pt. Ajowan on account of the muricated mericarps. It 
must be allowed to be a dubious species of Pimpinella, on account of the pre- 
sence of an involucre : but we cannot find characters to separate it generical- 
ly, unless they are to be found in the carpophore, which our specimens were 
not sufüciently advanced to exhibit. 
1139. (2) P. Candolleana (W. & A. :) perennial?: stem erect, slightly 
branched, and the petioles densely pubescent or shortly villous: leaves very 
pubescent on both sides, hard and firm, cartilaginously toothed ; radical and 
ower cauline ones reniform-cordate, entire; middle cauline ones tripar- 
tite, the segments cut and sometimes lobed ; upper ones small and divided 
wn to the sheath : umbels with many (10-16) very pubescent rays : leaves 
of the involucre 5-8, subulate, deciduous, much shorter than the rays ; of the 
mvolucel somewhat permanent, about the length of the rays: styles at length 
xed: fruit densely covered with small granular tubercles.— Wight / cat. 
n. 1194.— —Mountains in the south of the Peninsula. : 
n. Javana, DC., seems very closely allied to this species, but De Candolle 
escribes its fruit hirsutely hispid, and the involucre with only one leaf. The 
arpophore in this and the next appears at first sight entire, although a more 
ul examination shows it to be split. à 
$ 2. Involuere and involucel wanting.— Eupimpinella. 
1140. (3) P. Lesehenaultii (DC. :) biennial? : stem slightly branched, gla- 
; or minutely pubescent: radical leaves petioled, orbicular, cordate, en- . 
tire, toothed, firm and hard, many-nerved at the base, glabrous on the upper 
Side, pubescent on the under; cauline ones few, divided, small and almost 
. Teduced to the sheathes : umbel with 5-10 pubescent rays ; partial ones with 
.. Many rays: involucres and involucels wanting : styles diverging : fruit ovate- 
ated, glabrous.— DC. prod. 4. p. 122 ; Wight ! cat. n. 1195.——Neel- 
erries, 
VII. BUPLEURUM.  Tourn.; Linn.; DC. Pica’ 
_ Margin of the calyx obsolete. Petals roundish, entire, with the closely 
‘nvolute point broad and retuse. Fruit laterally compressed or somewhat 
.."ymous, crowned with the depressed stylopodium. Ridges of the meri- 
carps 5, equal, either winged, sharp, filiform, or obsolete: the lateral ones 
i Interstices with or without vittee, smooth or granulated. Seed 
teretely convex, flattish in front.—Herbaceous or shrubby glabrous plants. 
“ves rarely divided, usually from the abortion of the limb and dilatation of 
. the petiole changed into phyllodia with quite entire margins. Umbels com. 
; ; Pound. Involucres various. Flowers yellow. | 
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