Heraeleum.'] UMBELLIFERAE. 563 



A glabrous herb reaching 2 ft. in height, the flowers 

 yellow. 



2. PEUCEDANUM ANAMALLAYENSE, C. B. Clarke in F B I ii 

 710. 



W. Ghats, in the Anainalai forests (Wight, Beddome). 

 A tall herb with fistular fluted stems and much cut leaves 

 with narrow leaflets. 



Peucedanum sativum, Benth. and Hook, f., the Parsnip, is 

 occasionally cultivated in gardens. 



11. Heraeleum, Linn. 



Perennial or biennial more or less hairy herbs, often of large 

 size. Leaves 1-2-3-pinnate, the segments usually broad, lobed 

 and toothed. Flowers white or yellow, often polygamous, in 

 compound umbels, large and with many rays ; involucral bracts 

 few, simple or 0, rarely many, foliaceous; bracteoles many. Calyx- 

 lobes or small and linear-lanceolate. Petals usually unequal, 

 often radiant, the larger often widely spreading, bifid or 

 einarginate, all with an incurved apex. Ovary usually pubescent. 

 Fruit orbicular, elliptic or obovate, much dorsally compressed, 

 winged, the wing with usually thickened margins ; ridges slender ; 

 vittae usually solitary in the dorsal furrows, 2-4 or rarely more 

 on the commissure, all descending from the short thick stylopod 

 to below the middle of the fruit and sometimes dilated at the 

 ends. Seed much dorsally compressed, plano-convex. 



Lower leaves simple, usually 3-lobed, rarely pinnatifid, densely 

 villous ; outer flowers of the umbelhile usually radiant ; mericarps 

 elliptic, broadly winged, vittae usually 4 on the back, 2 on the 



commissure 1. Hookerianum. 



Lower leaves pinnate : 



Pinnae usually 1 to 2 pairs with a terminal usually 3-lobed, large, 

 glabrous ; petals equal ; mericarps orbicular, broadly winged, vittae 



usually 6 on the back, 4-6 on the commissure 2. aquilegifolium. 



Pinnae 1-3 pairs, small and distant, with a terminal broad 3-lobed, 

 hoary-pubescent ; petals equal ; mericarps elliptic-obovate, thick on 

 the back, vittae usually 4 on the back, 4 and often more on the 



commissure ...3. rigens. 



Pinnae 2-3 pairs, both the side and end ones long and deeply 

 pinnatifid, tawny-pubescent ; petals very unequal, the radiant ones 

 very conspicuous ; mericarps elliptic or very slightly obovate, '3 to 



