Heracleum.~\ LXX. UMBELLIFER.E. (C. B. Clarke.) 715 



fruit by ^ in. obovate, furrows between the lateral and intermediate ridges 

 2-vittate, commissure 2-vittate. Heracleum sp. 5, Herb. 2nd. Or. H. f. $ T. 



KHASIA Mrs., alt. 4000-6000 ft., common. PEGU, alt. 2500-3000 ft., frequent, 

 Kurz. 



Stem 2-4 ft., villous. Upper leaves 3-fid or 3-partite, pinnae 1-3 in., cordate or 

 ovate-lanceolate, serrate. Rays 6-12, 1^ in.; bracteoles 5-iO, \- in. Calyx-teeth 

 linear, small. Petals white, of the outer flowers radiant or not. Dorsal and inter- 

 mediate ridges elevated hardly excurrent, vittee between them 1 rarely 2 ; wing broad 

 with a narrow marginal vitta ; vittae in the furrows between the intermediate and 

 lateral ridges usually 1-3, more than half the length of the mericarp, commissural 

 2, usually more than half as long, 2 fragmentary often added. 



* Species of Southern India and Ceylon. 



14. XX. Hookerianum, W. $ A. Prodr. 373 ; lower leaves undivided 

 roundly 3-lobed villous often woolly beneath, upper much reduced often 

 to mere sheaths, bracts not prominent, fruit - in. broadly elliptic scarcely 

 obovate obtuse at both ends. Pastinaca Hookeriana, Wight Ic. t. 1010. 



NILGHIRI MTS. ; Wight, Gardner, G. Thomson. 



Stem 12-18 in. villous or pubescent, subnude upwards. Leaves 2-4 in. diam., 

 sometimes peltate, often 3-lobed, lobes 2-3-fid, lobes rounded, crenate, not serrate. 

 tracts 1-5, ^-| in., lanceolate or ; rays 4-10, 1-3 in., hairy, unequal, sometimes 

 compound; bracteoles 0-8, Q% in., lanceolate or linear, very variable; pedicels 

 4-10, 5- in. Calyx-teeth small, lanceolate. Outer flowers of the umbel radiant or 

 not. fruit obtuse, dorsal and intermediate ridges slender, hardly elevated ; wing 

 broad, with a narrow marginal vitta ; vitlse solitary in the furrows, large, nearly 

 as long as the carpel, commissural 4-2, the 2 longer extending nearly to its base. 

 Distinguished from H. rigens, of which it may be a form, by the undivided leaves : 

 it appears uniformly smaller, more naked upwards, the fruits shining scarcely nar- 

 rowed at the base. 



15. XX. rig-ens, Wall. Cat. 575; lower leaves pinnate, pinnse3-5 rarely 7 

 orbicular villous beneath upper much reduced, bracts not prominent,' fruit 

 i by i in. obovate-elliptic. DC. Prodr. iv. 191 ; W. $ A. Prodr. 373. ? H. 

 sprengelianum, Dalz. # Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 108. Pastinaca rigens, Wight Ic. t. 

 1009. 



MTS. of the DECCAN PENINSULA; Hcyne; Bottler; Nilghiris and near Courtal- 

 lum, Wight. CEYLON, Walker, Thwaites (No. 145 partly}. 



Near H. Hookerianum, but usually larger (2-3 ft.) with larger umbels. Lower 

 leaves 3-12 in.; pinnae 1-3 in. diam., obtuse, crenate not serrate. Fruit nearly as 

 in H. Hookerianum but dull reddish-' rown, often more elongate at the base, in 

 which case the vittae extend only the length of the carpel ; commissural vittoe 

 2-6, usually 4. 



VAR. Candolleana ; lower leaves 2-pinnate, pinnre lobed crenate or crenate-serrate. 

 PaHinaca Candolleana, W. $ A. Prodr. 372. P. ligusticifolia, Wight III. t. 116 ; W. 

 $ A. Prodr. 372. Mts. of the Deccan Peninsula ; plentiful. 



16. XX. aquileg-ifclium, C. B. Clarke; glabrous, lower leaves 3-partite 

 or pinnate, pinnse large ovate 3-lobed, fruit - in. orbicular or subelliptic, 

 vittse in the lateral furrows usually 2-3. Heracleum sp. 11, Herb. 2nd. Or. 

 H.f. $ T. 



CONCAN; tropical region, Law, Stocks. 



Stem 2-3 ft. Pinnge of the lower leaves 2-4 in. diam., denticulate : upper leaves 

 often undivided, uppermost reduced to sheaths. Umbels often in a nearly naked 

 raceme. Bracts 3-5, f- in '> lanceolate; rays 6-10, i$-2$ in.; bracteoles 



