Eryngium.] lxx. umbellifer>e. 871 



ground near houses, common. A very foetid plant when bruised, 

 said to have been introduced by Chinese, who cultivate it as a 

 drug. Singapore, Bajau; Chan Chu Kang; Kandang Kerbau; 

 Bukit Timah (Kunstler) . Negri Sembilan, Bukit Tumiang (Cantley) . 

 Pahang, Raub (Machado). Selangor, Semangkok Pass (Machado). 

 Penang (Curtis). Kelantan, Kota Bharu (Yapp). Native name: 

 Kulumbar. Use : As a pot-herb and drug. 



3. SANICULA, Linn. 



Erect herbs. Leaves palmate 3- to 5-partite; lobes toothed 

 or dissected; umbels irregularly compound, rays few. Bracts 

 leaf -like; umbellules small. Flowers mostly unisexual. Calyx- 

 tube villous, spiny. Petals white, emarginate. Fruit ovoid, spiny. 

 Carpels semi-terete, ridges obscure. Species many in the Old 

 World temperate regions and N. America. 



(i) S. europea Linn. Sp. PL 235; Clarke, in Hook. fil. F.B.I. 

 ii. 670. S. javanica Bl. Bijdr. 882. 



A herb i to 2 ft. tall. Leaves glabrous, palmate mucronate 

 serrate, 2 to 4 in. across; petioles i to 4 in. long. Umbels wide 

 spreading, 3 to 12 in. long, dichotomous, with few umbellules of 

 few flowers densely crowded. Fruit -i in. long covered with hooked 

 bristles. Hah. In mountain forests at 4000 ft. altitude, rare. 

 Pahang, Telom Valley (Ridley). Distrib. Europe, mountains of 

 tropical Asia and Africa. 



This is the form known as 5. javanica. It is rather larger and of more 

 straggUng habit than the European plant, but I cannot see any really dis- 

 tinctive characters between this and the common one of the English woods. 



4. GENANTHE, Linn. 



Tall herbs in wet spots, erect. Leaves i- to 3-pinnate ; leaflets* 

 toothed. Umbels compound, axillary ; umbellules many-flowered. 

 Flowers small, white. Calyx-teeth small, acute. Petals emar- 

 ginate. Fruit glabrous, ellipsoid (or globose). Carpels semi-terete, 

 ridges corky. Species 25, north temperate regions and S. Africa. 



(i) O. stolonifera Wall. Cat. 585 ; Clarke, in Hook. fil. F.B.I. 

 696. O. javanica and Dasyloma laciniatum Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. 

 i. (i), 741. 



An aquatic herb 2 to 3 ft. tall, quite glabrous. Leaves thm, 

 9 in. long, bipinnate, segments rhomboid acute, base narrowed, 

 strongly toothed, -5 in. long, -25 in. wide. Peduncles i to 3 in. 

 long, umbel rays '5 in. or longer, 6 to about 10 ; pedicels -3 in. or 

 less. Fruit 'i in. long, smooth. Hab. Pools and swamps. Bind- 

 ings at Lumut. Perak, Temengoh woods (Ridley). Distrib. 

 Indo-Malaya, China. 



This is cultivated by the Javanese, and may possibly be an alien here, 

 but in both the spots given above it was far from any houses and appeared 

 quite wild. 



