Heracleum.'] LXX. UMBELLIFERJE. (C. B. Clarke.) 717 



21. H. Pinda, Dalz. $ Gibs. Bomb. FL 107 ; clothed with long weak 

 white flat hairs, lower leaves bipinnate, pinnae cuneate coarsely toothed, vittse 

 2 in the lateral furrows,, commissure 2-vittate. 



BOMBAY; On Hursur and Hurry-chunder hill forts, Dalzell. 



Stem 1-1 ft., erect, branched. Leaves mostly radical, long-petioled. Bracts 1-3, 

 broad-ovate, acute, foliaceous ; rays 6-8, unequal; bracteoles 3, like the bracts. 

 Flowers white, exterior radiant. Not seen : the foregoing copied from Dalzell, I.e. 



34. ZOSX1KXA, llnffm. 



A perennial herb, pubescent or hirsute. Leaves 2-4-pinnate, segments 

 small. Umbels compound, rays numerous ; bracts and bracteoles usually 

 many, small. Calyx-teeth linear, somewhat prominent. Petals obovate, emar- 

 ginate, white or yellowish, often unequal sometimes radiant. Fruit elliptic 

 or orbicular, dorsally compressed, complanate ; dorsal and intermediate ridges 

 filiform or obscure, lateral hyaline, with a thick corky obtuse wing ; furrows 

 with solitary large vittae : carpophore 2-partite. Seed 4-6 times broader than 

 thick. 



1. Z. absinthifolia, DC. Prodr. iv. 195; Boiss. Fl. Ch-ient.ii. 1037. 

 Z. orientalis, Hoffm. Gen. Umb. 148, t. 4. Z. radians, Boiss. 8f Hohen. in 

 Boiss. I. c. 1037. Heracleum absinthifolium, Vent. Choix t. 7. H. tomentosum, 

 Smith) not of Dalz. 



SCINDE ; Stocks. PUNJAB ; base of Suleiman Mts., Edgeworth. DISTEIB. Beloo- 

 chistan and Cabul to S.E. Europe. 



Stem 1-3 ft., pubescent or hirsute. Leaves 4-8 in., oblong-lanceolate, pubescent, 

 ultimate segments - in. narrowly lanceolate or linear. Bracts and bracteoles 

 variable, usually 5, | in., lanceolate; rays 6-16, 1-3 in., often stout; pedicels 

 8-20, - in. Fruit f by \ in., elliptic or somewhat obovate, variable in size and 

 shape, pubescent till fully ripe. 



34.* CORIANDRU1VI, Linn. 



A herb, annual, branched, glabrous. Leaves decompound. Umbels com- 

 pound, rays few; bracts 0, or small linear; bracteoles few, filiform. Calyx- 

 teeth small, acute, often unequal. Petals obovate, emarginate, white or pur- 

 plish, of the outer flowers unequal, often radiant. Fruit subglobose ; ridges 

 not prominent, dorsal primary and adjacent secondary strongest, lateral primary 

 and secondary obscure; vittae obscure, solitary, under the secondary ridges; 

 carpels slightly concave on the inner face, commissure distinctly 2-vittate ; car- 

 pophore 2-partite. Seed convexo-concave, about thrice as broad as thick. 



1. C. sativum, Linn.-, DC. Prodr. iv. 250; ultimate segments of the 

 lower leaves ovate or lanceolate of the upper linear. Roxb. Hort. Bena. 21, Fl. 

 Ind. ii. 94; Wight HI. t. 117, fla. 9, Ic. t. 516; Boiss. Fl. Orient. 11. 920. 

 Cmniniun Cyminum, Wall. Cat. 594. 



Throughout INDIA ; cultivated. DISTBIB. Widely cultivated. 



34.** CUXKXNUBX, Linn. 



A slender, annual herb, glabrous except the fruit. Leaves twice or thrice 

 3-partite, ultimate segments filiform. Umbels compound, rays tew; bracts 

 and bracteoles several, linear, rigid. Calyx-teeth small, subulate, unequal. 



