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fruit somewhat globose, terete, not. dividing spontaneously : meri- 
carps densely clothed with hooked prickles, without ridges, but. with. 
many vittee; carpophore indistinct : seeds semiglobose. 
(1) S. zxara. (Ham.) 
Ident. W.& A. prod, 1. p. 367.—Don. prod. flor. Nep. p. 183. 
Dec. prod. IV. p. 85. 
Engrav. Wight’s Icon. t. 334 and 1004.—Spicil. I. t. 78. 
Spec. Cuar. Herbaceous, perennial: stem dichotomous at the 
‘apex : radical leaves palmately lobed, 3-partite or ternate : segments 
sessile, ovate, acute, lobed and serrated, cuneate at the base, the 
lateral ones often bipartite: umbels usually trifid, few-flowered : 
flowers polygamous, purplish-red, the males pedicelled: leaflets of 
the involucre few and lobed, of the involucel several and entire. 
Common in woods about Ootacamund, fiowering in the rainy 
‘season. 
GENUS II. HELOSCIADIUM. 
Pentandria Digynia. Sex: Syst: 
Deriv. _From Helos, a marsh, and Skiadon, an umbel, meaning 
an umbelliferous plant inhabiting marshes. 
Gen. Cuar. Calyx obsolete or 5-tootbed: petals ovate, entire, 
with a straight or inflected point: styles short: fruit jaterally com- 
pressed, ovate or oblong: mericarps with 5 equal ridges, of which 
the lateral ones are marginal ; interstices with single vittee: carpo+ 
phore entire, free: seed gibbously or teretely convex, flattish in 
front. 
(1) H. Heynzanum., (Dee. ) 
Ident, W. & A. prod. I. p. 368.—Dec. prod. TV. p. 106. 
Syn, Anethum trifoliatum, Roxb. fi. Ind. Il. p. 96. 
Seec. Cuan. Annual, herbaceous, glabrous: stem erect, slight= 
ly branched: leaves long-petioled, ternate: segments lanceolate, 
acuminated or tripartite, toothed: umbels long-peduacled, without 
involucre or involucels; rays 5-20, elongated ; partial umbels 5-8~ 
flowered: fruit orbicular, glabrous : flowers white. 
Circars. Courtallum. Mysore. Concans. Flowering in Au. 
gust and September. 
GENUS IV. PIMPINELLA, 
Pentandria Digynia. Ser: Syst: 
- Deriv. Altered from Bipinnate, referring to the leaves being 
twice pinnate, : 
