136 The Fevering Plants of Western India. 



3 large rounded lobes, flowers yellow, fruit large, broadly ovate 

 Bdphali. 



Matheran and Konkan hills ; the fruit is sold in Tanna bazaar. 

 Ghauts near Bombay (J}.}. 



*P. dliana (Pastinaca glauca, D.). Leaves radical, pinnate, leaflets 

 3 to 5, generally deeply lobed, bracts few and varions, flowers small, 

 yellow, fruit broad oval. Koland. The root, like a carrot, is eaten. 

 Near Belgaum (D.). 



5. HERACLEUM. Cow parsnep. 



H. pinda. One to two feet high, hairy, leaves mostly 

 radical bipinnate, segments coarsely toothed, umbels with 6 to 

 8 unequal rays, flowers white, external petals large, deeply 

 lobed. Pinda. 



Lanoli. Mahableshwar, Dr. CooJce. Ghauts (D.). 



*H. concanense, larger, all hispid with spreading hairs, leaves twice 

 ternate. Konkan hills (!>.) 



*H. rigens (H. sprengelianum, D.). 2 or 3 feet high, leaves with 

 3 to 7 roundish leaflets, fruit roundish, reddish brown. Between 

 Belgaum and Earn Ghaut (D.). 



Polyzygus tuberosus, a smooth herb, leaves twice ternate, segments 

 ovate, variable, flowers white, petals turned in, fruit smooth shining. 

 Dapoli. Malwan (D.). 



*Bupleurum mucronatum (B. falcatum, D.). Diffuse, much-branched, 

 leaves oblong, linear, long-pointed, rays 5 to 8 with 8 to 12 flowers, 

 fruit strongly ribbed. Dharwar Collectorate (D.). 



Assafoetida, hing, called devil's dung by the old travellers, is a gum 

 from one or two species of Ferula, which grow in Beluchistan, 

 Persia, Ac. 



OEDEE 61. AEALIACE^E. The ivy tribe. 



Trees or shrubs, often climbing, leaves alternate, flowers 

 regular, small, calyx tube united with the ovary, petals 5 to 7, 

 stamens as many, inserted round a disk. 



This is a small order coming near to the last, but the flowers are 

 imperfectly umbelled, and the fruit succulent. Hedera helix is the 

 English ivy, found also in the Himalayas. 



HEPTAPLEURUM. Large shrubs or trees, umbels panicled, 

 fruit a berry-like drupe, roundish, 5 or 6-angled. 



*H. Wallichiamim (Hedera w. D.). A strong woody 

 climber, leaves digitate long-stalked, leaflets 5 to 10, oblong, 

 entire leathery, flowers pedicelled, panicles very large, berry 

 6-celled, crowned by the much enlarged pentagonal disk. 



