Pemedomum.] lxx. umbellifeej!. (C. B. Clarke.) 709 



The species (formerly referred to Pastinaca) haTing the ovary and young fruit 

 hairy have been transferred by Mr. Bentham to Heradevm, -whether the vittse are 

 abbreTiated or not. 



* UUimate segments of the leaves f-1 in., linear. 



1. P. graveolens, Benth. in Oen. PI. i, 919 ; bracts and bracteolea 0, 

 Iietals yellow, fruit \ by ~ in. narrowly winged plano-convex 2-3 times as 

 broad as tHcb. P. Sowa, Kurz in Joum. As. Soe. 1877, pt. ii. 116. Anethum. 

 graveolens, Linn.; DC. Prodr. iv. 186; Wall. Cat. 7210; Boiss. Fl. Orient, ii. 

 1026. A. Sowa, Roxb. Hort. Beng. 22, Fl. Ind. ii. 94; Fleming Cat. Ind. 

 Med. PI. 5; Wall. Cat. 695; DC. Prodr. iv. 186; W. 4- A. Prodr. 372; 

 Wight Ic. t. 672. 



Throughout tropical and subtropical India; often cultivated. — Disteib. Culti- 

 vated in S. Europe and W. Asia. 



Glabrous, 1-3 ft. Leaves 2-3-pinnate. Pedicels many, ^ in. Styles small. 

 Dorsal and intermediate ridges distinct, slender ; vittse large, solitary in each furrow, 

 2 on the commissure. — The fruits are as broad and as much winged in the Indian 

 ' P. Sowa as in the ordinary P. graveolens : never subobsolete, as shown in Wight lo. 

 t. 572. In the European P. graveolens the carpels are plano-convex, and not so sub- 

 pentagonal as depicted by Eeichenbach, as Bentham has observed I. c. 



** XJltimate segments of the leaves J-2 in., linear-oblong or ovate, entire or 

 remotely sparingly toothed ; bracts or very small. 



2. P. Dbana, Sam. in Wall. Cat. 7216 ; leaves twice or thrice 3-partite 

 or sul)-2-pinnate leaflets 2 by J in. sessile usually entire, carpels 5 by ^ in. 



NoETH-WEST India ; Sub-sewaliks up to 4600 ft. ; Edgemorth. Kumaon, in the 

 subtropical region ; Strachey ^ Winterbottom. North Bengal ; Goruckpore, Hamil- 

 ton ; Dinajpur, C. B. Clarice. 



Glabrous, 6-24 in., subnude upwards. Bracts 3-6, \ in., linear or linear- 

 lanceolate; rays 5-10, 1-2J in.; bracteoles 4-8, ^ in., lihear; pedicels numerous 

 J in. Flowers small, yellow. Calyx-teeth obsolete. Styles somewhat long. Gar- 

 pels greatly compressed, subquadrate, tip obtuse, often truncate or eraarginate ; 

 dorssJ and intermediate ridges filiform, subobseure, lateral with a wing as thick as 

 the seed; dorsal furrows 1-vittate lateral 2-vittate ; vittse nearly as long as the 

 carpel, commissural 6-4. 



Vae. DaUellii ; leaflets shortly oblong or suborbicular. Pastinaca glauca, Dalz. 

 in Hook. Kew Joum. iv. 293 ; T)alz. Sf Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 107. — Belgaum, JDalzell, 

 Ritchie. Jubbulpore, McLeod. Chota Nagpore, C. B. Clarke. — Leaflets usually 

 1 by |-| in., very unlike those of P. Bhana, but the plants in every other point agree. 

 There has been considerable confusion between Pastinaca glauca, Dalz. {Peucedanum, 

 sp. Benth.) and Petioedamm, glaucwm, Wall. : two widely different plants. 



*** Ultimate segments of the leaves linear- or ovate-lanceolate serrate ; bracts 



or very smaU. 



3. P. ramosissimum, Wall. Cat. 578; segments of the lower leaves 

 ovate-lanceolate of the upper narrow-lanceolate, pedicels in fruit ^-i in., fruit 



1 by ^J in. winged commissuie evittate. Palimbia ramosissima, DC. Prodr. 

 iv. 176. 



Khasia Mts., alt. 4000-6000 ft., common. 



Glabrous, 2-5 ft. Leaves 2-4-pinnate, much and acutely serrate. Bracts 0, 

 or 1-3, \ in. ; rays 4-8, J-1 J in., divaricate ; bracteoles 0-6, ^ in., linear ; pedicels 

 ■5-10. Calyx-teeth minute. Styles very short. Carpels elliptic, narrowed at both 

 ends, entire or subemarginate at the apex : dorsal and intermediate ridges obscure, 



