491 
‘Gen. Car. Herbaceous plants: radical leaves either pinnated 
or rarely again pinnated or entire: stem-leaves more divided: um- 
bels with many rays, without involucres or involucels, or rarely with 
them: petals obovate, emarginate, with the point long and inflect- 
ed: fruit contracted laterally, ovate: stylopodium cushion-shaped: 
styles generally reflexed, sometimes straight, somewhat capitate at 
the apex; mericarps with 5 equal ridges, the lateral ones marginal : 
interstices with many vitte: carpophore bifid: seed gibbous- 
convex. . 
(4) P. snvorucrata, (W. & A. ). 
Tdent. W. & A. prod. U. p. 369. 
.. Syn. Apium involucratum, Roxb. ff. Ind. II. p. 97.—Ptycho-« 
tis Roxburghiana, Dec. prod. IV. ‘p. 109. 
Engrav. Wight’s Icon. t. 335, and 567. 
Spec. Cuar. Stem erect, dichotomous, glaucous: leaves ter- 
nate: segments cut. and pinnated, sometimes entire in the upper. 
leaves: lobes in the lower leaves linear-oblong and short, in- the 
upper oblong-linear and elongated: umbels with 6-8 rays: leaflets 
of the involucre and involucel about, 6, subulate, entire, much shorter 
than the rays: styles reflexed: fruit slightly ribhed, muricated.: 
flowers small, white. ; 
Peninsula. Very common inthe Concans. Flowering in Feb« 
-ruary, 
(2) P. Canvotreana, (W.§ Ai) 
Ident. W. & A. prod. I. p. 369. 
Engrav, Wight’s Icon, t. 341. 
Spec. Cuan. Stem erect: petioles densely. pubescent: leaves 
very pubescent on both sides, hard and firm, cartilaginously-tooth- 
ed; radical and lower cauline ones reniform-cordate, entire, middle 
-cauline ones. tripartite, with. the segments cut and sometimes lobed, 
upper ones small and divided down to the sheath: umbels with 10- 
16 very pubescent rays: leaves of the involucre 5-8, subulate, de- 
ciduous, much shorter than the rays; of the involucel somewhat 
permanent, about the length of the rays: styles at length reflexed : 
fruit densely covered with small granular tubercles. 
Mountains in the South of the Peninsula, 
(8) P. Lescuzenavitu. (Dec. ) 
Ident. W. & A. prod. I. p. 369.—Dec. prod. IV. p. 122. 
Engrav. Wight’s Icon, t. 1005.—Spicil. I. t. 80. 
Srzc. Cuar. Stem slightly branched, glabrous or minutely pu- 
bescent: radical leaves petioled, orbicular, cordate, entire, toothed, 
firm and hard, pubescent on the under side; cauline ones few, di- 
vided, small, and almost reduced to the sheaths: umbel with 5-19 
