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‘pubescent rays, partial ones with many rays: involucres and invo- 
_lucels wanting: styles diverging: fruit ovate-acuminated, glabrous.: 
flowers white. 
Common in dry pastures on the Neilgherries, flowering in the 
rainy season. 
(4) P. uareriFiora. (Dalz. ) 
Ident. Dalz. Bomb. flor. p. 106. 
Srec. Cuar, Erect, puberulous: leaves ternate: leaflets biter- 
nately divided; lobes of the lower leaves lanceolate, of the upper 
linear, all acute and mucronate: peduncles long, slender, sense 
posed: umbels 3-10: leaflets of the mivolucre 3-7, subulate, of the 
‘involucel about 7, as long as the pedicels: fruit covered with small 
granular tubercles: flowers pink. 
Common in ravines in the Decean. 
(5) P. ascenpEens. (Dalz.) 
Ident. Dalz. Bomb. flor. p. 106.—Hook. Jour. Bot. IE. p. 261. 
Spec. Cuar. Stems diffuse, ascending: leaves radical, pinnated : 
leaflets 6-pair, round-ovate, truncate or cuneate at the base, coarse- 
Jy and unequally crenate-serrated: cauline leaves few; leaflets 1-2 
pair, uppermost ones much divided: fruit ovate, bristly: flowers 
-white..” 
Banks of the rivers in the Concan, flowering in October and No-~ 
vember. The whole plant smells like parsley. 
(6) P. monoica. (Dalz. ) 
Ident. Dalz. Bomb. flor. p. 106-—Hook. Jour. Bot. TH. p. 212. 
Srrc. Cuar. ‘Stem 6—8 feet, branched above, smooth: branches. 
alternate and bifarious : lower leaves long-petioled, pinnately tifoli- 
olate: partial petioles long: leaflets cordate-lanceolate, with small 
cartilaginous teeth: upper leaves multifid: divisions filiform or re-~ 
duced to mere sheaths: involucre 1-leaved or wanting: involucel 
few-leaved, terminal: umbels fruit-bearing : lateral ones male: fruit 
covered with pellucid granules: flowers white. 
Western Ghauts on high lands, flowering in November. 
GENUS V. BUPLEURUM. 
Pentandria Digynia. Sex: Syst: — 
Deriv. From Bous, an ox, and Pleuroa, a rib or side, though 
the exact application is not satisfactorily shewn. 
Gen. Cuar. Herbaceous or shrubby plants: leaves rarely di- 
vided, usually changing into phyllodia with entire margins: umbels 
compound ; petals rounded, entire, with the involute point broad 
