Schultzia.'] VMBELLIFERAE. 561 



levels, up to 3,000 ft. ; W. Ghats, Mudumalai in Wynaad 

 at 2,000 ft., Anamalais ; Shevaroy Hills of Salem. 

 A tall erect monoecious herb with white flowers and umbels 

 with very slender rays. 



7. Seseli, Linn. 



Herbs. Leaves 2-3-pinnate or twice 3-partite. Flowers white, 

 in compound umbels ; involucral bracts or few, rarely many, 

 bracteoles many. Calyx-teeth minute, lanceolate or linear, or 0. 

 Petals 5, with a long inflexed acumination. Styles short. Fruit 

 oblong ovate or globose, broadest at the commissure, not 

 compressed ; inericarps semi-terete or compressed dorsally, the 

 inner face flat or sometimes concave; ridges strong, obtuse or 

 subacute, lateral hardly larger than the dorsal ; vittae in each 

 furrow solitary, large, others smaller often under the ridges ; 

 disk not prominent. Seed semi-terete, the inner face somewhat 

 concave. 



SESELI INDICUM, W. & A. 371 ; F. B. I. ii. 693. Cnidium 

 diffusum, DC.; Wt. Ic. t. 569. 



Plains Districts of the Carnatic (Heyne). 



An annual herb, usually diffuse, with many branches, 

 white or pinkish flowers and a globose fruit with prominent 

 ridges and straight hairs stellate at the apex. 



8. Schultzia, Spreng. 



Glabrous perennial herbs. Ltaves 1-2-pinnate, ultimate pinnae 

 toothed, pinnatifid or niultifid. Flowers in compound umbels; 

 involucral bracts several, entire or divided, bracteoles numerous. 

 Calyx-teeth prominent. Petals obovate, emarginate, white. 

 Fruit ovate-oblong, the commissure broad; mericarps dorsally 

 compressed, primary ridges slender, furrows between them with 

 2-4 vittae ; carpophore bipartite. 



SCHULTZIA ? BENTHAMI, C. B. Clarke in F. B. I ii. 697. 

 W. Coast, in Canara (Hohenacker). 



A tall herb with short pinnate leaves and rather large meri- 

 carps with 3 prominent ridges on the back followed by two 

 secondary, in section crescent-shaped, the commissure with 4 

 vittae, vittae in the furrows between the ridges in pairs. 



