LXVir. I'MBKLLlFKn.r. r>C)') 



the natives, yi/tlnm l\trosr]in>iin, ]j'\nn. Sp. D. (1753) p. 204; rmili. 

 Cut. p. 84; Ualz. & (ribs. vSui)pl. p. 41. J'etroseliuum sativum^ lloliiii. 

 Gen. Uiiib. p. 177 ; Wutl, Diet. Econ. Prod. v. 0, part 1, p. 181. 



4. PIMPINELLA, Linn. 



Annual or perennial lierbs. Leaves simple or eompound. I'lower.s 

 in conipouiid umbels, hermaphrodite or polysa-nio-nioncecious. Bracts 

 of the invohicre or few; bracteoles smtiil or 0. Calyx-teeth obsolete 

 or small. Petals usually with long inflexed points, more or less 

 emarginato, retuse or entire. Fruit ovoid or broader than long, 

 laterally compressed, often constricted at the commissure; mericarps 

 subterete or subpentagonal, often dorsally compressed ; ridges slender, 

 obscure or prominent ; vittic 2-3 in each furrow. Carpophore entire, 

 2-tid or 2-partite. Seed subterete or dorsally subcompressed, the 

 inner face flat or nearly so. — Distrtb. Northern hemisphere of the 

 world, S. Africa, a few in extratropical S. America; species about 70. 



Fruit glabrous 1. P. Jlcyneana. 



Fruit papillose, scabrid or pubescent. 



Lower cauline leaves simple 2. P. C'andoUcana. 



Lower cauline leaves pinnate. 



Flowers monoecious 3. P. monoica. 



Flowers hermaphrodite. 



liracts 4. P. tomentom. 



Bracts 3-7. 



Leaves simply pinnate ; flowers white .5. P. adsicondena. 



Leaves ternate ; leaflets 2-ternate ; flowers pink 0. P. luterifiora. 



1. Pimpinella Heyneana, Wall. Cat. (1828) 566. Annual; root 

 fusiform ; stem erect, Ig-S ft. high, with ascending glabrous branches. 

 Leaves 3-foliolate, smaller upwards, the lateral leaflets nsually ternate, 

 the terminal leaflet sometimes ternate, but often simple, entire or lobed ; 

 ultimate segments of the lower cauline leaves usually stalked, ovate- 

 lanceolate, |-2 hy |-| in., very acute, sharply serrate, glabrous or 

 nearly so, base tapering ; ultimate segments of the upper cauline leaves 

 often much narrower; common petioles 1-1| in. long, dilated and 

 ciliate at the base. Primary umbels G-20-rayed, the rays unequal, very 

 slender, 1-2 in. long, glabrous ; bracts 0. Partial umbels 4-12-tlowered; 

 pedicels filiform, very unequal, g-| in. long ; bracteoles 1-2, linear, 

 g-| in. long, or 0. Styles short. Fruit subglobese, J^ in. in diara., 

 glabrous ; primary ridges slender. Fl. B. I. v. 2, p. 684 ; Trim. Fl. Ceyl. 

 V. 2, p. 279; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 11 (1898) p. 643. 

 Helosciadium Jlei/neamim., DC. Prodr. v. 4, p. 106 ; Dalz. & Gibs, 

 p. 106. — Flowers : Aug.-Oct. 



KoNKAN : Stocks \. Dahcll \ ; near Marningao, CooJcel Deccan : Bowdluin 8 miles 

 west of Poona, Con/cr ! S. M. CouNTii^Y : Woodrow ! Kanara : Kala nadcli, Ritchie, 

 1767 !— DiSTKiB. India (Circars, Chittagong, W. Peninsula); Cejlon. 



2. Pimpinella CandoUeana, Wirflit ej- Am. Prodr. (1834) p. 369. 

 An erect herb l-2o ft. high ; root fusiform, perennial ; stems stout, 

 striate, pubescent or villous. Leaves with cartilaginously crenate- 

 serrate margins : lower cauline leaA'es simple (rarely pinnate), ^2,~~2. ^7 

 ]2-2i in., broadly ovate, usually acute, deeply cordate at the base, the 

 k'wer surface pubescent, the upper more or less so; petioles long, 



