I.XVII. LMltKLMl lOll.K. o63 



Ifl/Jrocoli/Je rolundifoliii,'ilo\h. llort. Beiig. (1814) p. 21. A i)ret(y 

 little crei'])iiig plant occasionally grown in gardens, bnt not iiuligcnons 

 in the Bombay Presiileiicy. It covers the sui-lace of a flower-pot with 

 a dense green mantle and is easy of culture if kept shaded from the 

 noonday sun and well watered. It is propagated by division. The 

 plant is commonly known by its synonym //. nlliduht, Ivich. See 

 Woodrow, (Jard. in Ind. ed. 5, p. cil2. 



2. BUPLEURUM, Linn. 



Glabrous annual or perennial herbs or shrubs. Leaves quite entire, 

 the lowest grass-like. Flowers in compound umbels, usufilly with 

 involucres and involucels, small, yellow or lurid. Calyx-teeth 0. Petals 

 broad, cmarginate, inllexed. Disk broad, flat. Styles short. Truit 

 more or less laterally compressed, slightly constricted at a somewhat 

 broad commissure; mericarps subpentagonal ; primary ridges distinct, 

 Avith 1-3 vitta) between them ; secondary ridges or obscure. Carpo- 

 phore 2-fid or 2-partite. Seed subtcrete, sometimes grooved on the 

 face. — DiSTJiii5. Europe, temperate Asia, X. Africa, Canary Islands 

 and Azores, with one species in S. Africa and one in N.W. America j 

 species about GO. 



1. Bupleurum virgatum, Wi(jJit 4' ^''"- Prodr. (1834) p. 370 

 (not of ^\'all. ). Perennial ; strm erect, 1-3 ft. high ; branches numerous, 

 ascending, cylindric, striate, glabrous. Leaves 2-5 by |-J in., linear- 

 oblong, gra-^s-like, sessile, usually acute or acuminate (rarely subobtuse), 

 niucronate, glabrous, glaucous, with numerous parallel prominent slender 

 nerves, narrowed at the base, amplexicaul but not sheathing. Flowers in 

 compound umbels, yellow. Primary umbels in lax elongated corymbose or 

 subcorymbose panicles, 5-8-rayed ; bracts 3-6, linear-lanceolate, acumi- 

 nate. Partial umbels (nmbdliiles) G-8-flowered ; pedict-ls short ; bracteoles 

 4-5, linear-lanceolate, longer than the umbellules. Calyx-teeth 0. Petals 

 distant, the apex ranch inflexed. Fruit ^ in. long, longer than broad, 

 ellipsoid, dark brown, shining ; mericarps rounded on the back, the primary 

 ribs prominent, rounded, with a broad vilta in each fuiTow, often with a 

 smaller one on either side. Trim. Fl. Ceyl. v. 2, p. 277. Ba_pleurum 

 ramosisshrmm, Wight & Arn. Prodr. p. 370 ; Wight, Icon. t. 1007. 

 B. fcdcafum. Dalz. & Gibs. p. 108 {not of Linn.). B. mucronntum, Wight 

 & Arn. Pi-odr. p. 370 ; C. B. Clarke, in Hook. f. Fl. B. I. v. 2, p. 676 ^ 

 Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 11 (1SU8) p. 642.— Flowers : Dec. 



The specific name virr/ation, AVight & Arn. 1. c, has precedence ovep 

 that of mucronatum. 



A rare plant in the Bombay Presidency. S. M. Countiiv : Dharwar, Dahcll cj- 

 Gibson. — Distrib. India (W. Peninsula) ; Ceylon. 



3. CARUM, Linn. 



Annual or perennial herbs. Leaves pinnate or decompound. L^mbeTs 

 compound. Bracts of the involucre few or ; bracteoles of the iuvolueel 

 usually numerous, undivided. Flowers -white (in the Indian species), 

 Hermaphrodite or polygamous, the petals of the sterile flowers often 

 irregular. Calyx-teeth small or 0. Petals broad, obtuse, entire, 

 cmarginate or 2-lobed. Fruit ovoid or ellipsoid, more or less laterally 



