560 FLORA OF MADRAS. [Pimpinella. 



Fruit papillose scabrous, ovoid : 



Fruit densely papillose, disk conical ; styles long and slender ; 

 basal leaves orbicular-cordate,, sometimes 3 -partite, serrate, 

 pubescent, passing in cauline ones to deeply pinnatifid, and finally 

 to a sheath with pinnatifid blade ; bracts and bracteoles many, 



small, linear 4. Candolleana. 



Fruit sparsely papillose, didymous, disk small ; styles short ; basal 

 leaves, if present, ovate-cordate, acute, serrate, glabrous, lower 

 cauline leaves trifoliolate, large, upper also trifoliolate, with 

 slender acuminate serrate leaflets ; bracts 0, bracteoles or 1-3, 

 small 5. monoica. 



1. PIMPINELLA HEYNEANA, Wall. ; F. B. I ii. 684. Hello- 

 sciadium / Heyneanum, DC. ; W. & A. 368. 



Circars and Deccan, in hill forests, scarce ; W. Ghats, 

 from the Coinibatore Hills to Tinnevelly. 

 An erect annual herb, the flower umbels with many long 

 slender rays. 



2. PIMPINELLA LESCHENAULTII, DC.; F. B. I. ii. 687; W. & A. 

 369; Wt. Ic. t. 1005. 



W. Ghats, in the Nilgiris, above 6,000 ft.; on the open 

 downs near sholas with long-petioled basal leaves (Fyson). 

 An erect almost scapigerous perennial with white flowers. 



3. PIMPINELLA PTJLNEYENSIS, Gamble in Kew Bull. 1919, 228. 



W. Ghats, at Bear Shola and in other moist woods in 

 the Pulney Hills, about 6,000-7,000 ft. (Bourne). 

 A tall herb reaching 1-2 ft. high, with long-petioled basal 

 and lower cauline reniform leaves with many palmate 

 nerves, the upper cauline leaves tripartite and lobed ; 

 flowers white. 



4. PIMPINELLA CANDOLLEANA, W. & A. 369 ; F. B. I. ii. 687 ; 

 Wt. Ic. t. 341. 



W. Ghats, in the Nilgiris and Pulney s, above 6,000 ft., in 

 grass lands near Shola forests, more scarce to the hills 

 of S. Tinnevelly. 



An erect tawny pubescent tall perennial with orbicular 

 cordate basal leaves and characteristic papillose fruits, the 

 flowers white. 



5. PIMPINELLA MONOICA, Dalz. ; F. B. I. ii. 687. 



N. Circavs, in the hills from Gairjam to Godavari, at low 



