570 LXTII. UMBELLIFEE.1E. 



Pastinaea grancUs, Dalz. & Gibs. p. 107. — riowers : July. Veen. 



Ghc'its near Bombay, BaJzell tf- Gihsmi. Konkan : Matlieran, H. M. Birdivood; 

 Pen, Woodrow ! Deccan : Mawal taluka, Woodrnw ! ; Kliaudala, Cooke ! ; Karkala, 

 Cooke ! — DisTRiB. India (hills of the Western Peninsula), apparently endemic. 



The plant has some repute in native medicine. The fruit collected from the Konkaa 

 hills is sold in the Bombay market. See Watt, Diet. Econ. Prod. 1. c. 



Peuceclanum graveolens, Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. v. 1, p. 919. 

 The Dill or Sowa. A glabrous herb 1-3 ft. high, with 2-3-piunate leaves 

 and yellow flowers, extensively cultivated tor culinary and medicinal 

 purposes. The seed is sold in every Indian market. Fl. B. I. v. 2, 

 p. 709 ; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat* v. 11 (1898) p. 643 ; Watt, Diet. 

 Econ. Prod. v. 6, part 1, p. 181. AnetJmm Sotoa, Eoxb. Hort. Beng. 

 p. 22; Grab. Cat. p. 248 ; Dalz. & Gibs. Suppl. p. 41.— Yekn. Shejm 

 (the plant) ; BaJantshej) (the fruit). 



Peucedanum sativtim, Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. v. 1, p. 920. The 

 Parsnip. Cultivated but very sparingly in the gardens of Europeans. 

 It grows remarkably well in the Deccan, especially if irrigation be 

 available. I have grown it most successfully in my own garden at 

 Poona and it seems a pity that this valuable esculent is not more 

 generally cultivated. Pastinaea sativa, Linn. Sp. PI. (1753) p. 262 ; 

 Grab. Cat. p. 84; Dalz. & Gibs. Suppl. p. 41. 



8. HERACLEUM, Linn. 



Perennial or biennial more or less hairy (rarely glabrous) herbs. 

 Leaves lobed, pinnate or pinnately (rarely ternately) divided ; segments 

 broad, lobed and toothed, rarely small. Umbels compound, many-rayed, 

 often large ; bracts few, 0, or many, foliaceous ; bracteoles usually many. 

 Plowers often polygamous. Calyx-teeth obsolete or more or less con- 

 spicuous. Petals "white (rarely yellow), xisually unequal, often radiant, the 

 lobes of the larger often widely spreading, emarginate or 2-lobed. Ovary 

 usually pubescent, the fruit often at length glabrate. Pruit orbicular, 

 obovate or elliptic, much dorsally compressed, winged, the wing with 

 thickened margins (wing obsolete or nearly so in H. concanense) ; dorsal 

 and intermediate ridges prominent or obscure, the lateral expanded into 

 closely contiguous wings forming the Ming of the fruit ; vittae usually 

 solitary in the furrows, the commissural 2-4, all descending from a short 

 thick stylopod to or beyond the middle of the fruit, often more or less 

 dilated towards their extremities. — Disteib. Temperate regions of the 

 northern hemisphere of the Old World, 1 widely spread through 

 N. America, 1 in Abyssinia ; species about 50. 



Petals not radiant. 



Wing of fruit broad 1. H. aqidlegifoliuni. 



Wing of fruit narrow 2. H. Sprengcliamim. 



Petals radiant. 



Bracts linear-lanceolate ; bracteoles 5 ; commissure G- 



vittate 3. H. concanense. 



Bracts broadly ovale; bracteoles 3 ; commissure 2-vittate. 4. H.I'inda. 



1. Heracleum aquilegifolium, C. B. Clarice, in Hool-. f. Fl. B. I. 

 V. 2 (1879) p. 715. Glabrous, branched ; root fusiform. Eadical leaves 



