a sheathing petiole, and small white or yellow, often 

 polygamous flowers tin simple or compound umbels, the 

 exterior flowers sometimes irregular with the outer petals 

 larger. Sepals superior, very small or 0. Pet. 5. St. 5 in 

 the male and herm. fl., epigynous. Disc large. Ovary 2-celled.' 

 Ovules- 1 in each cell. Fruit of 2 cocci (mericarps) separating 

 from a columella (carpophore.) 



Bracteoles 3-4. Fruit strongly dorsally compressed . 1. Peucedanum. 

 Bracteoles 0-2. Fruit didymous, broader than long , 2. Pinvpinella. 



1. Peucedanum, L. 



1. P. nagpurense, Pram. TC™™dom. oponom, K. ; 

 oponom, S. 



An erect stout herb 3-4| ft. high with a fusiform root, 

 polished siriated stems, and twice ternately- compound leaves. 

 Bracts or 1. Bracteoles 3-4 lanceolate below long caudate, 

 spreading and reflexed in fruit. Umbels terminal 2-3" diam. 

 Fls. |4" diam. 



Forests, frequent in Singbhum, Manbhum, Palamau and S. P. Flo. 

 Oct.-Nov- Ft. Dec. 



Lower petioles 8-12''. Lflts. ovate or rhomboid attaining 6" by 3|'' 

 eoarsely serrate glabrous except the ribs beneath, upper very narrow. 

 Sepals minute. Petals green or brownish, oblong lanceolate with 

 an iuflexed tip. Mericarps |* elliptic-oblong truncate both ends, winged, 

 brown with the ridges white, 4 vittse (oil channels) on the outer and '6 on 

 the inner face. Carpophore 2-fid to the base. 



The stems are used for shepherd's pipes (rotu). The root is used as 

 a stomachic. 



2 Pimpinella, L. 

 1. P. Heyneana, Wall. 



A slender erect branched herb 1-3 ft. high with glabrous 

 striated stem, and 1-2-ternately compound leaves. Bracts 

 0. Bracteoles or 1, rarely 2, setaceous, J 7 or less long. 



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