UMBELLIFER^. 175 



pink, drying flat : vittas four, slender, extending half to 

 three-fourth down, as regards width occupying the middle 

 half of the fruit. Wight Ic. t. 1009. 



On the open downs. Pulneys : fairly common. Nilgiris ; 

 Ootacamund to Coonoor. Fyson 1831,2163. Bourne ^2 2"]^ 

 120, T050,* 295, 1099, 1099.'^ A variety with long fruits occurs 

 at slightly lower levels. Bourne t3i7,* 1558,-^ 1278.* 



Wall. Cat. 575 (type); Wall. Cat. 575 in Herb Hook: " Conium " 

 of Heyne in Herb. Rottler ; Herb. Benth. 47575 ; Wight's Kew Dist. 

 "Pulneys 1836" and 1183 " Courtallum " ; Wight's Kew Dist. 1195 

 *' Coonoor 1846" (five sheets); Wight's Kew Dist. 1185 (two sheets) 

 Wight's Kew Dist. 1186 " Jamalay, Aug. 1848 " ; Wight's Kew Dist. ii86 

 " Anamalay forest, 1851. " 



Hcraclcum hookcrianum Wight and Arnott ; Herb- 

 Wight Prop. "Avalanche"; F.B.L ii 715, XXX 14; 

 Wight Ic. t. lOlO ; appears to me a young form of 

 the above. 



Wight's Kew Dist. 1184 '* Avalanche " (two sheets); Gardner " Nilgiris "; 

 Foulkes "Ootacamund 1851 " Madras Coll. 21 ; Hooker and Thomson; 

 Hooker and Thomson bottom half (top half := H. rigens). 



Hcraclcum ccylanicum Gardner, Thwaites Enum. 131 

 C.P. 145 ; F.B.I, ii 716, and H, rigens var candolleana, 

 ii 716; XXXIII 17. Basal leaves pinnate. Leaflets, 

 oblong, twice or thrice as long as broad ; lateral lobes 

 and segments rounded, terminal, acute ; pubescent or 

 tomentose, dentate. Rays 2 to 4 inches. Mericarps very 

 large, Y^ hy Yz inch : vittas occupying one-third of 

 the breadth, convergent below. Umbels very strongly 

 radiate, the largest petals obovate or obcordate, Ye inch. 



Pulneys : on the downs. Fyson 474, 2984. Bourne 25, 

 1329. (H. sprengelianum.) 



Previously recorded only from Ceylon : Gardner in Thwaiies C.P. 145 

 (type) ; Thwaites ; Walker (three sheets) ; Vv^alker (three sheets) ; Walker, 

 •* H. rigens of C.B. Clarke " ; Gardner (two sheets) ; Wight's Kew Dist. 

 1 189; G. Thomson. The last three have rather more pointed leaves, but 

 the plant marked by Clarke H. rigens Wall, has leaves of both kinds. 



Hcraclcum sprengelianum Wight and Arnott ; Herh. 

 Wight Prop ! ; F.B.I ii 716, XXXIII 18 ; Giant Cow Parsnip. 



