Bupieunnu.} UmbellifercB. 277 



in little heads on long peduncles arranged in trichotomous 

 cymes, bracts of involucre about 9, short, linear, acute ; pet. 

 minute, bifid, with a long incurved acute point ; ov. thickly 

 covered with long, erect, soft, white, hooked prickles, styles 

 long, spreading ; fruit about \ in., ovoid, not compressed, 

 thickly set with stiff spreading hooked prickles, mericarps 

 semicircular on section, the ribs very obscure. 



Upper montane zone in woods, very rare. N. Eliya (Nock); Elk 

 Plains ; between Maturata and Nuwara Eliya. Fl. April-June ; white. 



Also in the Himalaya and Nilgiris, and in Temp. Asia and Africa and 

 Europe. An English species. 



5. BUPLEUBUm, L. 



Herbaceous, 1. quite entire, fl. in compound umbels with 

 both general and partial involucres, small, yellow ; cal.-segm. 

 o; pet. broad, notched point much inflexed ; disk broad, flat ; 

 fruit not compressed, mericarps somewhat pentagonal, ridges 

 very distinct, with 1-3 vittae between them. — Sp. 60; 13 in 

 Fl. B. Ind. 



B. virg-atum, W. and A. Prod. y]o (1834). Wal-enduru, S. 



B. nervosum, Moon Cat. 22. B.falcatum, L., var., Thw. Enum. 131. 

 C. P. 225. 



Fl. B. Ind. ii. 676 (B. mucronatwn, var.). Wight, Ic. t. 1007 (B. 

 ramosissimiim). 



Annual (or perennial ?), stem erect, 1-3 ft., with many 

 ascending branches, cylindrical, striate, glabrous; 1. grass-like, 

 sessile, 2^-4^ in., amplexicaul but not sheathing at base, 

 linear, acuminate, mucronate at apex, glabrous, glaucous green, 

 with a very narrow horny margin, veins slender, nearly parallel, 

 distinct and unbranched ; general umbels long-stalked, nu- 

 merous, arranged in lax, elongated, terminal, somewhat 

 corymbose panicles, rays 4-6, general involucre of 3-6 lanceo- 

 late-linear very acuminate bracts, partial umbels of 6-8 fl., ped. 

 short, partial involucre of 4 or 5 bracts rather exceeding fl.; 

 pet. distant, broad, point much inflexed ; fruit rather over \ in., 

 ovoid, brown, shining, mericarps rounded on back with the 

 primary ribs prominent, and with a broad, conspicuous dark 

 vitta in each furrow, often with a smaller one on either side. 



Rocky open places and patanas in the montane zone, 3000-7000 ft. ; 

 moo on the Eastern (UvaJ slopes, but scarcely found on the Western 

 .dy; side. Fl. Keb.-August; lemon-yellow. 

 in the Nilgiri MtS. 



<.n plant is not at all variable except in size, but the Fl. Ii. 



