Pimpinella.'] LXX. UMBELLIFERJ:. (C. B. Clarke.) 689 



-1 in., sparingly pubescent, very irregularly cut, sometimes pinnatifid. Umbelx 

 pubescent, nearly as in P. diversjfolia, but with bracts and prominent bracteoles. 

 Bracts | in., pubescent, lanceolate or the bases broad and subconnate ; bracteoles 

 very similar, exceeding the flowering umbellules. Fruit not seen. This resembles 

 P. diver sifolia, differing in the more developed involucres : in the absence of ripe 

 fruit, it may be a Heracleum or some other genus. 



19. P. tomentosa, Dak. ms. ; lower cauline leaves 2-3-pinnate ulti- 

 mate leaflets ovate acutely laciniate, fruit narrowly oblong attenuate upwards 

 scabrid with many ascending ovate small scales. Pimpinella sp. 8, Herb. Ind. 

 Or. H. f. $ T. ? Heracleum tomentosum, Dalz. fy Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 108, 313 

 {not of Smith). 



BOMBAY (probably in the Ghats) Dalzell ; Concan, Stocks. 



Pubescent, somewhat villous upwards, hardly tomentose. Stem 2-4 ft., much 

 branched upwards. Lower leaves large, ovate, iiltimate leaflets 1 in., petioluled, ser- 

 rated with very long teeth; upper often reduced to sheaths. Bracts 0; rays 4-8, 

 1 in.; bracteoles 0, or 1-2 very small linear; pedicels 3-10, ^- i n . Fruit | in., 

 almost rostrate, laterally compressed, hardly constricted at the commissure ; style- 

 bases elongate, conical, yellow-brown ; carpels terete, obscurely pentagonal ; ridges 

 very obscure, furrows 2-3 -vittate ; carpophore slender, 2 -fid. 



20. P. adscendens, Dalz. in Hook. Kew Journ. ii. 261 ; lower cauline 

 leaves oblong pinnate pinnae ovate or round rarely 3-partite, fruit ovate 

 minutely pilose. Dalz. $ Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 106. 



BOMBAY, Dalzell ; Nasik, Edgeworth ; BELGATDM, Dr. Ritchie ; CONCAN, Stocks. 



Minutely pubescent or glabrous. Stems many, 8-24 in. Lower leaves with 4-8 

 pair of pinnae, terminal leaflet often large, pinnae 5 f in. diam., acutely serrate ; 

 upper leaves reduced, often more divided. Bracts 4-7, |-p in., linear ; rays 4-12, 

 1 in., glabrous; bracteoles 4-7, in., linear, minutely ciliate-pubescent ; pedicels 

 8-16, - in- Fruit in., brown, hardly acute, laterally compressed, disc not pro- 

 minent ; carpels terete, hardly pentagonal, not dorsally compressed ; ridges obscure ; 

 furrows 2-3-vittate. 



21. P. lateriflora, Dalz. $ Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 106; "leaves ternate 

 leaflets twice ternate lobes of the lower leaves lanceolate of the upper linear 

 all acute mucronate, fruit densely covered with small granular tubercles." 

 Dalz. I. c. 



DECCAN ; in ravines, common ; Dalzell. 



Puberulous, 1-1^ ft., erect. Peduncles long, slender, leaf-opposed; umbels 3-10; 

 bracts 3-7, subulate; bracteoles 7,. subulate, as long as the pedicels. Flowers 

 pink. Not seen ; the above copied from Dalzell. 



22. P. caespitosa, Benth. in Gen. PL i. 895 ; pubescent, lower leaves 

 oblong pinnate pinnae ovate, bracts 4-5 linear-lanceolate villous, fruit oblong, 

 furrows 1-vittate. Petrosciadium caespitosum, Edyw. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xx. 

 51. ? Thaspium foliosurn, Royle III. 40. 



GURWHAL; Niti, alt. 12,000 ft., Edgeworth, Strachey $ Winterbottom. KUNAWUR; 

 above Kogi, alt. 9-10,000 ft., Thomson. 



Rootstock short, woody, branched. Stems many, 4-8 in., sparingly leafy upwards. 

 Pinna of the lower leaves -f in. diam., coarsely serrate, hardly mucronate, some- 

 times lobod or 3-fid. Bracts \-% in. ; rays 4-6, f in., with much spreading soft 

 white hair; bracteoles 4-6, % in,, lanceolate; pedicels 6-12, f in. Fruit ^-^ in., 

 very villous when young, ultimately glabrescent, laterally compressed ; style-bases 



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