558 FLORA OF MADRAS. [Bupleurum. 



A shrub, often with a single stem up to 6 ft. high, the 

 stem marked by the round scars of fallen leaves. Basal 

 leaves long and narrow with very oblique subparallel 

 nerves ; cauline leaves shorter and broader and very 

 obtuse. 



2. BUPLEURUM MUCRONATUM, W. & A. 370; F. B. I. ii. 676, 

 in part. 



W. Ghats, in the Nilgiris at about 7,000 ft., among bushes, 

 scarce in Pulneys. 



A bushy plant with knotted stems and many leaves, the 

 cauline similar to the radical. 



Yar. ramosissimum, C. B. Clarke in F. B. I. ii. 676. B. 

 ramosissimum, W. & A. 370 ; Wt. Ic. t. 1007. 

 W. Ghats, in the Nilgiris and Pulneys, at 6,000-8,000 ft. ; 

 Shevaroy Hills of Salem. 



A low bushy plant with more terete stems and shorter 

 leaves, less obtuse at apex or sometimes acute. 



3. BUPLEURUM VIRGATTJM, W. & A. 370. B. mucronatum var. 

 virgatum, C. B. Clarke in F. B. I. ii. 676. 



W. Ghats, in the Pulney Hills, at about 7,000 ft., among 

 grass on the downs. 



A tall erect herb with terete steins and narrow, long and 

 sharply mucronate-acuminate leaves ; the umbels long- 

 peduncled with many rays. 



4. BUPLEURUM DISTICHOPHYLLUM, W. & A. 370 ; F. B. I. 677 ; 

 Wt. Ic. t. 1006. 



W. Ghats, in the Nilgiri Hills, above 7,500 ft., on the open 



downs. 



A slender erect herb, the radial leaves tufted. 

 A small specimen from the Madgol Hills of Vizagapatam, 

 4,000 ft. (A. W. Lushingtoh), seems to belong to B. falcatum, 

 Linn. 



5. Carum, Linn. 



Annual or perennial herbs. Leaves pinnate or decompound, 

 Flowers white, polygamous, the sterile flowers often with irregular 

 petals ; umbels compound ; involucral bracts few or ; bracteoles 

 numerous, entire. Calyx-teeth small or 0. Petals broad, obtuse 

 retuse or emarginate. Fruit ovoid ellipsoid or oblong, laterally 

 compressed and more or less constricted at the commissure; 



