Peucedanum] UmbellifercB. 279 



1. P. Heyneana, Wall. Cat. ?i. 566 (1828). Wal-asamodagran, S. 



Sin m triternatum, Moon Cat. 22. Helosciadium Hey?ieanum., DC, 

 Thw. Enum. 130. Arn. Pug. 19. C. P. 182. 

 Fl. B. Ind. ii. 684. 



Annual, stem 1^—3 ft., with ascending branches, glabrous; 

 1. trifoliolate, smaller upwards, rachis 1 J— 3 in., dilated with 

 ciliate margin at base, lflts. stalked, lanceolate or linear- 

 lanceolate, tapering to base and apex, acute, coarsely serrate, 

 glabrous, the lat. ones often deeply 3-lobed ; primary umbels 

 6-12-rayed, rays slender, unequal; partial umbels 4-8-flowered, 

 with long spreading unequal ped., bractlets 1 or 2, linear, or o ; 

 styles short ; fruit very small, T V in., almost globose, slightly 

 didymous, primary ridges slender, prominent. 



Waste ground and roadsides, rather rare. Four Korales (Moon); 

 Uva, very abundant up to 4000 ft. (Thwaites); Morovvak Korale; Anurad- 

 hapura. 



Also in India and Burma. 



In Morowak Korale this was growing in great abundance with 

 Kurakkan, and looked as if purposely sown. 



2. P. Leschenaultii, DC. Prod. iv. 122 (1830). 

 Thw. Enum. 131. C. P. 515. 



Fl. B. Ind. ii. 687. Wight, Ic. t. 1005. 



Perennial with a branched rootstock ; 1. nearly all radical, 

 petioles erect, from 2 to 12 in., sparingly hairy, much dilated 

 and sheathing at base, blade \\-\ in., rotundate-ovate, very 

 deeply cordate at base, with a narrow sinus or with the 

 rounded lobes slightly overlapping, coarsely crenate-dentate, 

 glabrous above, more or less hairy beneath and on edges, 

 rather thick, veins conspicuous beneath, stem-1. few, much 

 smaller and on shorter petioles, the uppermost ones cut into 

 lanceolate segm.; primary umbels with 12-20 equal pubescent 

 rays, partial ones of 15-20 fl., ped. pubescent, bractlets few, 

 setaceous, hairy; pet. with a long inflexed point, the outer 

 ones of the umbels somewhat radiant ; styles rather long, 

 erect, ov. pubescent ; fruit about £ in., ovoid, rather tapering 

 upwards, crowned with cal.-segm. and conical disk, mericarps 

 very slightly compressed, concave on commissure, ribs obscure, 

 vittae small, 2 in each furrow, and 2 on commissure. 



In wet places in the patanas, upper montane zone, very rare. Only 

 on Horton Plains and on the descent thence to Galagama. Fl. Feb.; white. 

 Also in the Nilgiris. 



6. PEUCEDANUM, L. 



Herbaceous, 1. triternatc, umbels compound, with no 

 general and a small partial involucre ; pet. obovate, bifid ; 



