Pimpinella.'] UMBELLIFERAE. 559 



mericarps subpentagonal, the inner face flattened ; primary ridges 



usually conspicuous, vittae in the furrows single ; carpophore bifid. 



Seed terete, flat or obscurely channelled on the inner face. 

 CARUM NOTHUM, C. B. Clarke in F. B. I. ii. 681. 



Mysore (Lobb) ; W. Ghats, on rocks above Sispara in W. 

 Nilgiris, at 7,500 ft. (Gamble). 



A bulbous-rooted herb reaching about 1 ft. in height, with 

 small leaves with linear segments, the mericarps strongly 

 ridged, the umbels of .-ibout 7 rays with linear-lanceolate 

 bracts. 

 Carum Petroselinum, Benth. and Hook, f., is the Parsley 



occasionally cultivated, chiefly in the gardens of European 



residents. 



6. Pimpinella, Linn. 



Herbs, annual biennial or perennial. Leaves simple or com- 

 pound. Flowers in compound umbels, hermaphrodite or poly- 

 gamo-monoecious ; involucral bracts few or 0, bracteoles usually 

 linear small, or 0. Calyx -teeth small, lanceolate. Petals with 

 long inflexed points, entire or emarginate. Styles usually long, 

 sometimes very short. Fruit laterally compressed, usually 

 constricted at the commissure, ovoid ; mericarps subpentagonal, 

 the inner face flattened ; ridges slender, vittae 2-3 in the furrows 

 between them. Seed terete or dorsally compressed, inner face 

 usually flat. 



Fruit glabrous or nearly so : 



Fruit short, ovoid or subglobose, didymous, disk obsolete j styles 

 very short ; leaves trif oliolate, membranous, subglabrous, the 

 leaflets again sometimes divided, narrowed at base, deeply serrate ; 



bracts 0, bracteoles 1-2 or 1. Heyneana. 



Fruit ovoid with conspicuous conical disk and long styles : 



Basal leaves orbicular- or broadly ovate- cordate, with narrow 

 sinus or overlapping, serrate, pubescent, about 3-5-nerved, 

 petioles up to 2 in. long, cauline leaves pinnatifid soon reduced 

 to mere petiole-sheaths ; bracts and bracteoles 0. . .2. Leschenaultii. 

 Basal leaves orbicular-cordate, with broad ('5-in.) sinus, serrate, 

 hispid pubescent on nerves above otherwise glabrous, about 

 10-20-nerved, petioles up to 12 in. long, cauline leaves pinnatifid, 

 gradually reduced to linear petiole-sheaths ; bracts 0, bracteoles 

 few, linear, persistent 3. pulneyensis. 



