I.Wll. IMIiKM.Il'KIM'. X)07 



o. Pimpinella adsceudens, Dulz. in New Juum. Bot. v. 2 (1850) 

 p. 201. Stems mniiy, O-lS in. long, terele, smooth, glabrous ; branches 

 few. Leaves mostly radical, simply piiniate, sometimes reaching 8 in. 

 long (including the petiole) ; leallels 4-8 pairs, rotund-ovate or obovate, 

 funeate at the base, acutely and irregularly serrate, the lateral leaflets 

 h-]l in. long, the terminal leaflet usually longer than the lateral ones : 

 cauline leaves lew, the upper pinnatisect. Flowers in terminal compound 

 umbels. Primary uiid)els 4-12-rayed, the rays subequal, |-| in. long ; 

 bracts 4-8, linear-subulate, \-\ in. long. Partial umbels 8-16-flov\ered ; 

 pedicels -/y-i ^^^- ^^"S 5 bracteoles 3, linear-subulate, yV~8 ''^' ^^^g- 

 Petals white, broadly obovate, externally pubescent. Pruit ^-^r in. long, 

 brown, ovoid, subobt use, laterally compressed, minutely pilose; disk not 

 l)rominent ; ridges obscure. PI. B. I. v. 2, p. G80 ; Dalz. & Gibs. ]). lOO ; 

 AVoodr. in -lourn. Pomb. jS^at. v. 11 (1898) p. 643. — Plowers : Jan.- 

 Peb. 



Konkan: Sfockul; banks of rivers in tlio Konkan, DaLell \ Deccan: Stocks \; 

 Poona, li'uodroiv '. ; Siugliad, H'oodrow ; between Nasik and lojatpuri, Kffdcwortk I 

 S. M. Col'ntuy: Eelgaum, li'oudroui '., Ritchie, lOSl I— DiSTuin. India (VV. Peninsula). 



G. Pimpinella lateriflora, Dah. cj- Glhs. Bomb. FJ. (1801) p. 106. 

 Erect, l-lg ft. high; stems puberulous. Leaves teruate, the leaflets 

 2-ternate, the lobes of the lower leaves lanceolate, those of the upper 

 linear, all acute, nuicronate. Plowers pink ; peduncles long, slender, 

 leaf-opposed. Primary umbels B-lU-rayed; bracts 3-7, subulate. 

 Partial umbels with 7 subulate bracteoles as long as the pedicels. Fruit 

 densely covered with small granular tubercles. PI. B. I. v. 2, p. 689 ; 

 Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 11 (1898) p. 643. 



Deccan : in ravines, common, DaLell ij- Gihson. 



This plant has beau included on the anthority of Dalzell & Gibson. It has not, as 

 far as I am aware, been found by any other collectors, though Dalzell & Gibson state 

 that it is common in ravines in the Deccan. I have never seen a specimen. There 

 are none in Herb. Kew., and the description has been taken from Dalzell & Gibson, 

 liomb. Fl. 1, c. 



5. POLYZYGUS, Dalz. 



A glabrous herb ; root tuberous. Leaves ternately and pinnately 

 decompound; segments rather broad, pinnatitid. Involucre-bracts very 

 few, or ; bracteoles of the iuvolucels few, small, setaceous. Flov\ers 

 white, in compound umbels. Calyx-teeth small, or the exterior larger. 

 Petals oblong, in flexed at the apex, emargiuate. Fruit small, ovoid, 

 transversely subterete, with a broad commissure, glabrous ; mericarps 

 semiterete, primar_y ridges scarcely prominent, furrows broad, 1-3-vittate. 

 Carpophore 2-i)artite. Seed flat on the inner face. — Distiub. India 

 (W. Peninsula) ; species 1. 



1. Polyzygus tuberosus, Dah. in Keiv Joiirn. Bot. v. 2 (1850) 

 p. 260. A herb f-lg ft. high, quite glabrous; root tuberous; stem 

 erect, sparingly branched, terete below, angular and furrowed above. 

 Kadical leaves several, deltoid in outline, triternate ; pinnte distant : 

 common petioles very long, 3-6 in. long or more ; partial petioles of the 

 lowest pinnae 1-2 in. long, becoming shorter upwards ; ultimate leaflets 

 pinnatisect, the segments with irregular bristle-pointed serratures : 

 cauline leaves few, smaller. Flowers white, in terminal and axillary 

 compound umbels. Primary umbels 3-8-rayed, |-1] in. long; bract 1, 



