Peucedanum.'] LXX. UMBELLIPERJ:. (C. B. Clarke.) 709 



^ The species (formerly referred to Pastinaca) having the ovary and young fruit 

 hairy have been transferred by Mr. Bentham to Heracleum, whether the vittse are 

 abbreviated or not. 



* Ultimate segments of ike leaves -1 in., linear. 



1..P. grayeolens, Benth. in Gen. PL i. 919; bracts and bracteoles 0, 

 petals yellow, fruit | by i in. narrowly winged plano-convex 2-3 times as 

 broad as thick. P. Sowa, Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. 1877, pt. ii. 116. Anethum 

 graveolens, Linn.; DC. Prodr. iv. 186; Wall. Cat. 7210; Boiss. FL. Orient, ii. 

 1026. A. Sowa, Roxb. Hort. Beng. 22, FL Ind. ii. 94; Fleming Cat. 2nd. 

 Med. PL 5; Wall. Cat. 595; DC. Prodr. iv. 186; W. 8r A. Prodr. 372; 

 Wight Ic. t. 572. 



Throughout tropical and subtropical INDIA; often cultivated. DISTRIB. Culti- 

 vated in S. Europe and W. Asia. 



G-labrous, 1-3 ft. Leaves 2-3-pinnate. Pedicels many, in. Styles small. 

 Dorsal and intermediate ridges distinct, slender ; vittae large, solitary in each furrow, 

 2 on the commissure. The fruits are as broad and as much winged in the Indian 

 P. Sowa as in the ordinary P. graveolens : never subobsolete, as shown in Wight Ic. 

 t. 572. In the European P. graveolens the carpels are plano-convex, and not so sub- 

 pentagonal as depicted by Eeichenbach, as Bentham has observed I. c. 



* Ultimate segments of the leaves ^-2 in., linear-oblong or ovate, entire or 

 remotely sparingly toothed ; bracts or very small. 



2. P. Dhana, Ham. in Wall. Cat. 7216 ; leaves twice or thrice 3-partite 

 or sub-2-pinnate leaflets 2 by in. sessile usually entire, carpels | by in. 



NORTH-WEST INDIA ; Sub-sewaliks up to 4500 ft. ; Edgeworth. KUMAON, in the 

 subtropical region ; Strachey $ Winterbottom. NORTH BENGAL ; Goruckpore, Hamil- 

 ton ; Dinajpur, C. B. Clarice. 



G-labrous, 6-24 in., subnude upwards. Bracts 3-5, \ in., linear or linear- 

 lanceolate; rays 5-10, 1-2^- in.; bracteoles 4-8, in., linear; pedicels numerous 

 in. Flowers small, yellow. Calyx-teeth obsolete. Styles somewhat long. Car- 

 pels greatly compressed, subquadrate, tip obtuse, often truncate or emarginate ; 

 dorsal and intermediate ridges filiform, subobscure, lateral with a wing as thick as 

 the seed; dorsal furrows 1-vittate lateral 2-vittate ; vittse nearly as long as the 

 carpel, commissural 6-4. 



VAR. Dalzellii ; leaflets shortly oblong or suborbicular. Pastinaca glauca, Dalz. 

 in Hook. Kew Journ. iv. 293; Dalz. $ Gibs. Bomb. FL 107. Belgaum, Dalzell, 

 Ritchie. Jubbulpore, McLeod. Chota Nagpore, C. B. Clarke. Leaflets usually 

 1 by - in., very unlike those of P. Dhana, but the plants in every other point agree. 

 There has been considerable confusion between Pastinaca glauca, Dalz. (Peucedanum, 

 sp. Benth.) and Peucedanum glaucum, Wall. : two widely different plants. 



*** Ultimate segments of the leaves linear- or ovate-lanceolate serrate ; bracts 

 or very small. 



3. P. ramosissimum, Wall Cat. 578; segments of the lower leaves 

 ovate-lanceolate of the upper narrow-lanceolate, pedicels in fruit -^ in., fruit 

 \ bv - in. winged commissure evittate. Palimbia ramosissima, DC. Prodr. 

 iv. 176. 



KHASIA MTS., alt. 4000-6000 ft., common. 



Glabrous, 2-5 ft. Leaves 2-4-pinnate, much and acutely serrate. Bracts 0, 

 or 1-3, Jin.; rays 4-8, ^-1^ in., divaricate; bracteoles 0-5, | in., linear; pedicels 

 5-10. Calyx-teeth minute. Styles very short. Carpels elliptic, narrowed at both 

 ends, entire or subemarginate at the apex : dorsal and intermediate ridges obscure, 



