1/6 UMBELLIFER^. 



Stem glabrous (W. & A. " harshly pubescent "). Leaves 



very large, over one foot. Leaflets cordate, sessile or 



decurrent, acute, often irregularly lobed at the base, 



serrate, glabrous or pubescent. Rays very numerous ; 



pedicels slender ^ inch. Mericarps broadly elliptic, 



54 by % inch : vittas occupying half or more than half 



of the width, not convergent below. Wight let. I008. 



Pulneys : on the downs and near sholas. Nilgiris : Coonoor 

 Herb. Wight Prop. 1202, 1193, 1182. 



^ var ligustifolium (Pastinacia ligustifolia W. & A. 

 Prod, ii 372) ; F.B.I. H. rigens var candolleana in part ; 

 XXXIII 15.^ Leaves pinnate or bipinnate, over 15 by 

 12 inches. Leaflets deeply pinnati-sect or-fid : ulti- 

 mate segments acute, deeply serrate, narrower than in 

 H. sprengelianum. Rays shorter. Fruits narrower. 



Nilgiris: Y^otdL^xxxiWighfs Kew Dist. 1187, 1181). 



The larger forms approach H. rigens. The smaller leaf-segments 

 remind one of the leaflets of the Neem^ except that they are not cutaway 

 obliquely at the base. 



Heracleum pedatum Wight, Herb. Prop ! ; F.B.I. 

 ii 716, XXXni 20. Stem up to 18 inches, decumbent and 

 rooting at the nodes. Leaves pedately divided into five 

 leaflets, which are sharply serrate or deeply cut ; lateral 

 ones I by J^ inch, terminal lYz by % inch. Main umbels 

 on slender peduncles ; rays few, final umbels Yz inch very 

 radiate, the outermost petal three or four times the inner 

 ones. Two outer sepals linear, long and spreading; 

 inner obsolete. Petals white, triangular-cordate, deeply 

 notched. Mericarps Y> by i/io inch, broadest at the 

 base, nearly as thick as wide, not winged but five^angled, 

 ridges obsolete. Vittas one between each angle and two 

 on the inner side, t, 130. 



In sholas forming a dense growth. Pulneys : common, 

 flowering June to September. Fyson 982, 2036, * 3045. Bourne 

 540, 957. 2639, 2640. 



