2 So UmbelliferCB. {Heracleuvi. 



fruit oblong-oval, very much compressed, mericarps fiat, the 3 

 dorsal ridges slender and narrow, the 2 lat. ones expanded 

 into narrow wings, vittse solitary in the furrows. — Sp. about 

 100; 9 in Fl. B. Ind. 



P. zeylanicum, Gardn. in Calc. Jonm. Nat. Hist. viii. 14 (1847). 

 Palimbia ramosissima, Thw. Enum. 131 (non DC). C. P. 135. 

 Fl. B. Ind. ii. 710. 



Annual (?), stem erect, 3-5 ft, branched, striate, glabrous, 

 hollow ; radical 1. about 1 ft. long, triternate, rachis slender, 

 glabrous, sheathing at base, lflts. very deeply 3-sect, the lobes 

 linear, acuminate, very acute, glabrous, glaucous; uppermost 

 1. reduced to sheaths with a few small filiform segm.; primary 

 umbels with 10-12 rays, no involucre, partial of 10-12 fl. on 

 very long ped., bractlets few, setaceous ; fruit ^-f in., very 

 much compressed, tipped with conical disk, mericarps very 

 thin, the dorsal ridges slightly raised. 



Upper montane zone, very rare. Found by Gardner, in 1846, in open 

 grassy rocky places on the descent from Horton Plains to Galagama, but 

 not since collected. Fl. Feb., March ; white. 



Gardner says that the plant when bruised gives an odour like that of 

 Fennel, and that it was called ' Wal-enduru ' by the Sinhalese. 



7. KERACLEUlf, Z. 



Perennial herb, 1. mostly radical, pinnate, umbels com- 

 pound, many-rayed, with both general and partial involucres ; 

 cal.-segm. acute ; pet. with long inflexed point ; fruit oval, very 

 much compressed, mericarps flat, with 3 dorsal ribs flat and 

 broad and 2 lateral ones expanded into broad wings, vittse 

 conspicuous, one in each furrow and . several on commissure, 

 carpophore bipartite. — Sp. 50; 21 in Fl. B.Ind. 



XX. zeylanicum, Gardn. in Fl. B. Ind. ii. 716 (1879). 

 Slum lobatum, Moon Cat. 22. H. nepale?ise, Don, Am. Pug. 19. H. 

 Sprengeliamcm, Thw. Enum. 131 (non W. and A.). C. P. 145. 

 Fl. B. Ind. ii. 716. 



Rootstock stout, ascending, nodose, tough; 1. mostly 

 radical, spreading, pinnate, rachis 4-10 in., stout, cylindrical, 

 hairy, with broad ciliate stip. adnate to lower part and forming 

 a sheathing base, lflts. 3-7 (1-3 pair and an end one), 2-3 in., 

 the lowest pair generally stalked, broadly ovate in outline, 

 but very deeply pinnately cut (often almost to the base) into 

 broadly oblong, acute, coarsely spinous-serrate lobes, hairy on 

 both sides, especially on the raised reticulate venation beneath ; 



