IWlBELLIFERjE. 437 



Kurz dors not include this speries in liis list, tlioiif^h it is cultivated in Burma 

 and used both for culinary and medicinal purposes. 



Fruits transrerseh/ terefe or compressed from the bac/c, the cnmmkstire Iroad, the 

 lateral ribs distinct, or united to the nerve-like or thickened undiluted margin. 



* Fruit transrerseli/ sub-terete or more or less compressed from the back, the primary 

 ribs not winged. 



X Primury ribs of the meriearps almost equal, not winged. 



FcENicTJLUM, Adanson. 



Fruits not beaked, the primary ribs thin or thick, but not corky, the secondary 

 ones wanting. Calyx-teeth obsolete. PctuU entire, yellow. 



*F. (ANEinnii) vulgake, L. Cultivated in Prome. 



X X Lateral ribs of the meriearps not rcingcd, confluent with the thick, often corky 

 margin, entire after the dehiscence. Vittte solitary in the furrows. 



(EsANTHE, Zinnaus. 



Petals notched or 2-lobed. Carpophore absent. All ribs of the meriearps very 

 blunt and almost corky. Leaves usually pinnate or dissected. Umbels compound. 



ffi. STOLONIFERA, DC. Swampy spots in Pegu. 



Leaves pinnate (rarely bipinnate). Umbels on very long peduncles. 



** Fruits compressed from- the back or almost tirete, all the primary ribs, or only 

 the keeled ones, more or less expanded into thick u-inys, the /rings equal, or the lateral ones 

 broader. 



Selinum, Zinnaus. 



Fruits ovate, somewhat compressed from the back, the ribs equally winged 

 or the lateral ones broader. Disk-lobes conical or depressed. Flowers white or 

 yellowish-green. 



A species apparently of tliis genus is not unfrequent on the hill-pastures of the 

 Martaban Hills East of Toung-ngoo, above 0000 feet elevation, but tlie plants were 

 too much dried up to permit of identification (Kurz). 



PEUCEDAXIEJE. 

 Fruit much compressed from the back, the lateral ribs dilated info wing-like or 

 broadly swollen margins, remaining entire after the dehiscence. 



Peucedanum, Linnaas. 



Meriearps more or less convex on the middle (rarely nearly flat), the margins 

 rather thick and sharp, or broadly winged, ntfr/; solitary in the furrows and con- 

 spicuous, or rarely by 2-3 and obsolete, reaching the luise of the fiuit or sometimes 

 shorter. 



P. (Anethum) sowa, Roxb. Cultivated up to 2000 feet. 



Sa-myeik. 



Glabrous, glaucous. Leaves pinnatel)- decompound, the lobes filiform. 



P. (Pastin-aca) SAxrvA, L. Cultivated. 



P. pastinaca, Bth. et II. f. 



Leaves pinnate, the leaflets puberulous beneath, broadly oblong, serrate, often 

 lobcd. 



IIeuacleum, Linn(tits. 

 Petals often radiate. Meriearps fiat-compressed or hardly convex at the middle, 



