J Lxx. uMBjii-LiFERiE. (C. B. Clarke.) 689 



J-X in., sparingly pubescent, very irregularly out, sometimes pinnatifid. Umbels 

 pubescent, nearly as in P. diversifolia, but with bracts and prominent braetpolea. 

 Bracts ^J in., pubescent, lanceolate or the bases broad and suboonuate ; bracteoles 

 very similar, exceeding the flowering umbellules. Fruit not seen. — This resembles 

 P. diversifoUa, differing in the more developed involucres : in the absence of ripe 

 ftuit, it may be a Heracleum or some other genus. 



19. P> tomentosag Dalz. ms. ; lower cauliue leaves 2-3-piimate ulti- 

 mate leaflets ovate acutely laciniate, fruit narrowly oblong attenuate upwards 

 scabrid vrfth many ascending ovate smaU scales. — Pimpinella sp. 8, Serb. Ind. 

 Or. H. f-Sr T. ? Heracleum tomentosum, Balx. 8r Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 108, 313 

 (not cf Smith). 



Bombay (probably in the Ghats) Ddlzell ; Concan, Stocks. 



Pubescent, somewhat villous upwards, hardly tomentose. Stem 2-4 ft., much 

 tanehed upwards. Lower leaves large, ovate, ultimate leaflets 1 in., petioluled, ser- 

 rated with very long teeth ; upper often reduced to sheaths. Bracts ; rays 4-8, 

 1 in.; bracteoles 0, or 1-2 very small linear; pedicels 3-10, ^^ in. Fruit | in., 

 almost rostrate, laterally compressed, hardly constricted at the commissure ; style- 

 bas^s elongate, conical, yellow-brown ; carpels terete, obscurely pentagonal ; ridges 

 very obsciu:e, furrows 2-3-vittate ; carpophore slender, 2-fid. 



20. P. adscendens, Ddz, in Hook. Kew Joum. ii, 261 ; lower cauline 

 leaves oblong pinnate pinnae ovate or round rarely 3-partite, fruit ovate 

 minutely pilose. Dalz. §• Oibs.^Somb. Fl. 106. 



Bombay, Salsell ; Nasik, Edgemorth ; Belgatim, Dr. Bitchie ; Concah, Stocks. 



Minutely pubescent or glabrous. Stems many, 8-24 in. JJower fea^es, with 4,-8 

 pair of pinnse, terminal leaflet often large, pinnae ^-% in. diam., acutely serrate ; 

 upper leaves reduced, often more divided. Bracts 4-7, ^-^ in., linear ; rays 4-12, 

 1 in., glabrous; bracteoles 4-7, ^ in., linear, minutely ciUate-pubeseent ; pedicels 

 8-16, ^-i in. FVuit jL in., brown, hardly acute, laterally compressei^ disc not pro- 

 minent ; carpels terete, hardly pentagonal, not dorsally compressed ; ridges obscure ; 

 furrows 2-3-vittate. 



21. P. lateriflora, Dah. ^ Chhs. Bomb. Fl. 106; "leaves ternate 

 leaflets twice ternate lobes of the lower leaves lanceolate of the upper linear 

 all acute mucronate, fruit densely covered with small granular tubercles." 

 B<Js. I. c. 



Deccan ; in ravines, common ; Dalzell. 



Puberulous, 1-1 J ft., erect. Peduncles long, slender, leaf -opposed ; umbels 3-10; 

 ■bracts 3-7, subulate; bracteoles 7, subulate, as long as the pedicels. Flowers 

 pink. — Not seen ; the above copied from Dalzell. 



22. P. csespitosa, Bmth. in Gen. PI. i. 895 ; pubescent, lower leaves 

 oMong pinnate pinnse ovate, bracts 4-5 linear-lanceokte villous, fruit oblong, 

 farrows 1-vittate. Petrosciadium csespitosum, Fdgw. in Trans. Linn. Soe. xx. 

 51. ? Thaspium foliosum, Boyle III. 40. 



&DEWHAI,; Niti, alt. 12,000 ft., Edgeworth, Strachei/ ^ Winterbottom. Kunawub; 

 above Eogi, alt. 9-10,000 ft., Thomson. 



Smtstock short, woody, branched. Stems many, 4-8 in., sparingly leafy upwards. 

 PinruB of the lower leaves J-J in. diam., coarsely serrate, hardly mucronate, some- 

 times lobod or 3-fid. Bracts J-J in. ; rays 4-6, i in., with much spreading soft 

 -white hair ; brapteoles 4-6, ^ in., lanceolate ; pedicels 6-12, J in. Frmt ^=-j^ in., 

 very viUous when young, ultimately glabreseent, laterally compressed ; style-bases 



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