1/2 umbeLLifer^. 



grass-like mostly crowded and closely imbricated clasp- 

 ing the lower part of the stem, which may be there 1/12 

 inch thick; upper few, smaller and merging into the 

 Yz inch bracts. Bracts of umbels ^ inch finely acum- 

 inate, longer than the rays- t. 127. Wight Ic. t. 1006. 



On the open downs : Nilgiris at Ootacamund (Bourne) 

 flowering July, and below Avalanche. Pulneys : above Kodai- 

 kanal. 



Gen. Dist. These hills only. Fyson 1839a. Bourne 4624. 



PIMPINELLA. F.B.I. ;o xiii. 



Our two species distinguished from all others of the 

 family by the large heart-shaped basal leaves, with 

 stalks of four to twelve inches. (Most of the genus how- 

 ever with much divided leaves.) Stem slender. Lower 

 leaves occasionally lobed : but upper bractiform leaves 

 deeply cut or divided into three to five wedge-shaped 

 segments with long clasping base. Umbels compound 

 (of the usual type) : peduncles about % inch, bracts 

 linear Yz inch. Flowers white, ^ inch across or less • 

 petals slightly unequal. Mericarps narrowest across the 

 division, contracted above, bulging below so that the 

 pair appear in side view heart-shaped, each with five 

 ridges and two or three oil ducts in the shallow furrows. 



The above refers to our two species. The differences 

 between them lie in the texture and toothing of the leaves 

 (more pronounced in the upper ones), and the hairiness of the 

 fruit. They may also be distinguished on the Pulney downs 

 by the fact that F. candollechia grows on the open hill-side, 

 P. leschenaultii in the cooler damper parts near sholas. But on 

 the Ootacamund downs a small form of P. leschenaultii grows 

 on the open hill-side. 



Species 75, all over the world except Australia. (In Europe 

 Burnet Saxifrage, Anise.) 



Pimpinclla leschenaultii DC^ ; F,B.L ii 687, XIII 13. 

 * Pulney fortfi. Stem often branched 2 to 5 feet high, 

 red in the lower parts and clothed with fairly long white 



