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and retuse : frit laterally compressed and crowned with the depress- 
ed stylopodium : ridges of the mericarps 5, equal, either winged or 
obsolete, the lateral ones marginal: interstices with or without vit- 
tz: seed teretely convex, flattish in front. | 
(1) B. pisticnorpxyttum. (W. § 4.) 
Ident. W. & A. prod. I. p. 370. 
Engrav. Wight’s Icon. t. 1006. 
Spec. Cuar. Perenriial: stems erect, flexuose and simply 
branched upwards : leaves distichous and usually crowded near the 
base of the ‘stem, somewhat erect, from narrow-linear and much 
acuminated to linear-subulate, very sharp, stem-clasping, striated 
on the under side: general umbel with 5-8 rays, partial with 10-13 
flowers: leaflets of the involuere and involucel 5-6, linear acumi- 
nated and very sharp, the former about twice as short as the rays: 
fruit prominently ribbed, rather shorter than the pedicels: inter- 
stices flattish, with single vittee: flowers yellow. 
Neilgherries. 
(2) B. mucronatum. (W. §& AL) 
Ident. W. & A. prod. I. p. 370. 
Sezc. Cuan. Perennial: stems from a horizontal woody shoot, 
erect, flexuose upwards, with short apd almost simple branches : 
leaves linear, bluntish, with a long mucro, stem-clasping, 5—9-nerv- 
ed; general umbel with.5-6 rays; partial one with 6-12 flowers: 
leaflets of the involucre and involucel Jinear-oblong, mueronate, the 
former 2-3 times shorter than the rays, the latter longer than the 
‘flowers and shorter than the fruit: fruit sharply-ribbed, twice as 
oa the pedicels : interstices flattish, with single vitte:: flowers 
yellow.. 
‘Neilgherries. 
(8) B. ratcatrum. (Linn-) 
Ident. Dalz. Bomb. flor. p. 108. 
Engrav. Wight’s Jeon. t. 1007.—Spicil. I. t. 81. 
Spec. Cuar. Perennial, diffuse and much branehed: leaves ob- 
long-linear, with a long mucro, narrow towards the base, stem-clasp- 
ing, 5-9-nerved: general umbels 5-8-rayed; partial. ones 8-12- 
flowered ; leaflets of involucre and involucel about 5, oblong-linear, 
mucronate : fruit strongly ribbed : interstices with 1-2 vittz : flowers 
‘yellow. 
Common on the Neilgherries. Dharwar. Flowering in the rainy 
iseason. The B. ramosissimum (W. & A.) is a variety of the above 
species, 
