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PIMPINELLA. 
Margin of the calyx obsolete, Petals obovate, emarginate, with the point long and inflexed. Fruit con- 
tracted laterally, ovate. Stylopodium cushion-shaped. Styles generally inflesed, sometimes straight, some- 
what capitate at the apex. Merricarps with 5 equal filiform ridges, the lateral ones marginal. Interstices 
‘with many vittee, Carpophore bifid. Seed gibbous-convex, flattish in front.—Herbaceous plants with simple 
roots. Radical leaves either pinnated, or entire: stem leaves more finely divided. Umbels general and par- 
tial with many rays, without involucres or involucels, or very rarely with them. Petals white, more rarely 
reddish or yellow.—W. and A. Prod. p. 368 
There are only two species of this genus natives of the Hills; one having an involucrum, or ray of subu- 
ers leaves round the base of the umbel, the other without. The one here represented isthe one with naked 
umbels, a mark by which it is easily distinguished from the other. It is very common in the pastures on the 
‘slopes of the Hills all about Ootacamund, and seo recognized by its umbels of small white flowers, and two 
or three round radical leaves lying flat on the groun 
INELLA LescueNAuLtit (DC. :) peren- A low herbaceous plant seldom exceeding 12 or ‘15 
nial: stem slightly branched, glabrous or minutely inches in hei eight. It is generally distributed over tend 
pubescent : radical leaves petioled, orbicular, cordate, higher ranges of the hills in ry pastures 
entire, toothed, firm and hard, many nerved at the during the rainy season. From the nake ‘nent a 
base, glabrous on the upper side, pubescent on the un- tuations in which it usually grows, though in ype _ 
der ; cauline ones few, divided, small and almost re- tle striking, it becomes very conspicuous. The 
duced to the she aths: um hes 1 with 5-10 pubescent are perennial and strike deep into the soil. 
rays : partial ones with many rays: involucres an 
involucels wanting : “aye Aiveelig ‘fruit 0 ovate-acu- 
minated glabrous.—W. and A. Prod. p. 369. 
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BUPLEURUM. 
Margin of the calyx obsolete. Petals roundish, entire, with the closely involute point broad and retuse. 
Fruit laterally compressed or somewhat didymous, crowned with the depressed stylopodium. Ridges of the 
merricarps 5, equal, either winged, sharp, filiform, or obsolete: the lateral ones marginal. Interstices with or 
without vitta, smooth or granulated. Seed teretely convex, flattish in front.—Herbaceous or shru y gla- 
brous plants. Leaves rarely divided, usually from the abortion of the limb and dilatation of the petiole changed 
into phyllodia with quite entire margins. Umbels compound. Involucres various. Flowers yellow. 
Of this genus, including in all about 70 species, four are foundon the Hills. They are remarkable in the 
family for their simple undivided leaves, a mark by which the genus is generally much more readily distin- 
guished than by those taken from the flowers and fruit. The one here represented is by farthe most common 
and most conspicuous from its size, and very numerous umbels of small yellow flowers with which it is cover- 
ed. All along the roads from both Kotagherry and Coonoor, it abounds, often attaining a height when sup- 
ported by bushes among which it grows, of seven or eight feet, forming a strong contrast with another found 
in open pasture grounds which rarely exceeds as many inches. A third species I have found in several places 
of much larger growth, having stems several inches in circumference, and the lower leaves of the stems some- 
times 7 or 8 inches long and about 13 broad. That species B. age tol RR R. W. Icones.—Occurs in 
_ Woods on Elk Hill, at the bottom of Kaitie Falls, and on Snowdown 
BuPLeuRUM RAMOSISSIMUM (W. and A. :) peren- er than the flowers, shorter than the fruit: fruit about 
nial, diffuse and much branched, leaves oblong-linear, ; “half longer than the pedicels, J y ribbed ; in- 
wit tha long mucro, narrowed towards the base, am-  terstices with 1-2 vi = ons —W. and A, Prod. p. 370, 
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rge ramous diffuse a 
Fanaceous: general umbels with 5-8 rays; partial mon on the Hills, sinills for growing among 
with 8-12 flowers : leaflets of the iovoluere and invo- bushes in moist soil, usually from 4 to 6 feet high, 
suet) about 5, oblong-linear, mucronate; the former tae often greatly exceeding foie size—Flowering dur- 
2-3 times shorter than the rays ; the | latter rather long- ing therainy season, The flowers are small yellow,, 
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