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5. HERACLEUM. Bracts few or none, petals obovate emar- 

 ginate or bifid, fruit roundish, much dorsally compressed. 



1. HYDROCOTYLE. White rot. 



H. asiatica. A small plant, leaves round or kidney-shaped, 

 crenated, long-stalked, umbels short, flowers few, dark-coloured, 

 near the root, fruit roundish. Brahmi, Kdringa, Kdrivand, 



S. Konkan, Mahableshwar, and elsewhere in moist places, not 

 common. Throughout India, H., and in the warmer parts of the 

 globe. The leaves are like those of violets. 



2. CALUM. Caraway. 



C. Roxburghianum (Pimpinella involucrata, D.). Erect ; 

 leaves much divided, segments linear, flowers \vhite, umbels 

 long-stalked of 6 or 8 rays, bracts both general and partial 

 various ; fruit warted. Ajmod, Karonga. 



This D. calls very common in the Konkans. Throughout India, ex- 

 tensively cultivated (H). I had it only at Sattara, and do not feel 

 certain of the identification. Two or three ether species are 

 cultivated, the leaves being used for parsley, and the seeds for 

 caraway. 



3. PIMPINELLA. Burnet saxifrage. 



1. P. lateriflora. A smooth delicate plant; leaves twice or 

 thrice ternate, segments linear-lanceolate, umbels about 8, 

 general bracts about 8, partial about 4, flowers tinged with 

 violet or pink, fruit warted. 



Poona. Ravines in the Deccan, common (-D.)- 



2. P. adscendens. A slender smooth plant, radical leaves 

 many ; leaflets about 6 pair oval, serrate cuneate at the base, 

 stem leaves few ; flowers white, bracts small linear, fruit not 

 warted. 



Panchganni. Banks of Konkan, rivers and elsewhere (D.). The 

 plant smells like parsley. 



P. monoica. Six or eight feet high, smooth, nmbels in many 

 branches at the top, leaves trifoliate, the tipper leaflets variously 

 divided ; fruit at first woolly. Bhdlga. Mahableshwar. Highest 

 Ghauts (D.). *P. heyneana, two feet high, smooth, leaves, and some- 

 times leaflets, ternate, umbels long-stalked, without bracts, fruit 

 roundish. Konkan (D.). 



4. PEUCEDANUM. Hog's fennel. 



* P. grande (Pastinaca g. D.). Three feet high, thick- 

 stemmed, smooth, leaves mostly radical bipinnate, leaflets of 



