Heracreum. UMBELLIFERJE. 373 
the middle of the interstices ; vittæ on the commissura 4, slightly clavate and 
unequal.— Wight ! cat. n. 1904, 
Of this we have not seen the leaves. 
1151. (2) H. rigens (Wall. :) stem slightly branched, furrowed, pubescent 
or hirsute: leaves ternate ; divisions roundish, somewhat cordate at the base, 
toothed, upper side more or less scabrous with short hairs, under densely pu- 
bescent or tomentose, lateral ones on a short, terminal one on a long petiole, 
the latter bluntly 3-lobed or ternate: leaflets of the involucel ovate : petals 
equal: fruit obovate; vitte on the back linear, much shorter than the fruit, 
the lateral ones in pairs, and close to the intermediate ridges; vittæ on the 
commissura 4, acute, unequal, the two outer the shorter—Wall.! L. n. 575 : 
DC. prod. 4. p. 191 ; Wight! cat. n. 1205 and 1206 (deformed specimen.)— 
Conium Siva, herb. Madr. /—Dindygul hills. Mysore. 
1152. (3) H. Hookerianum (W. & A. :) stem nearly simple, furrowed, coarse- 
ly pubescent or somewhat hirsute with short glutinous hairs : leaves nearly ra- 
dical, 3-lobed, toothed, sparingly pubescent or hairy on the upper side, short- 
ly tomentose on the under ; lobes roundish, toothed, the terminal one the 
"Best and often 3-lobed ; upper stem-leaves few, and sometimes almost re- 
duced to the mere sheathes: umbels long-peduncled, with 6-10 rays: leaf- 
t$ of the involucre persistent durin flowering, afterwards deciduous, lan- 
ceolate-subulate ; of the involucel ob ong lanceolate, longer than the flowers : 
petals (whitish with a tinge of red) unequal: fruit (very immature) sprinkled 
With a few short hairs ; commissura with 2 vittæ.— Wight! cat. n. 1207. 
Mountains in the south of the Peninsula. 
TRIBE VI.—CUMINEÆ. Koch. 
Fruit laterally contracted. Mericarps with 5 rimary filiform ridges of which the 
teral ones are tanrginal, and 4 seconde ones bore prominent than the others, all 
9fthem wingless. Seed straight, flattish in front. —Umbels compound. 
XIII. CUMINUM.  Linn.; Gertn. fr. 1. t. 23; DC. 
Calyx-teeth 5, lanceolate or setaceous, unequal, persistent. Petals between 
erect and spreading, oblong, emarginate, with the point inflexed. Fruit la- 
terally contracted. Mericarps with the ridges wingless, the 5 primary ones 
filiform and minutely muricated, the lateral ones marginal, the 4 secondary 
ones more prominent and prickly. Interstices with single vittæ under the 
Secondary ridges. Carpophore bipartite. Seed slightly concave in front, 
convex on the back.—Herbaceous plants. Leaves multifid, the lobes linear- 
‘Setaceous. Involucre of 2-4 simple or divided leaflets ; involucel dimidiate, 
2-4-leaved, at length reflexed. Flowers white or reddish. 
* 1153. (1) C. Cyminum (Linn.:) lobes of the leaves linear-setaceous, 
pcute: umbel with 3-5 rays: involucel longer than the usually pubescent 
-—DC. prod. 4. p. 201; Spr. syst. 1. p. 905; Roxb. fl. Ind. 2. p. 92 ; 
Wall. L, n. 594. 
e consider this a very doubtful native of India. 
TRIBE VIL—DAUCINEE. Koch. 
Fruit lenticularly compressed at the back, or somewhat terete. Mericarps with 5 
form bristly primacy rie of which the lateral ones are placed on the flat com- 
Ries and 4 more prominent prickly secondary ones, the prickles being either dis- 
. tinet or united into a wing. Seed flattened or convex on the back, flattish in front, 
—Umbels compound. 
