494 
(4) B. prantaainirouum. (R. FW.) 
Ident. Wight's Icon. vol. I. No. 15. 
Engrav. Wight’s Icon. t. 281. 
Spec. Cuar. Perennial, erect: leaves congested towards the 
apex of the stem, petioled, spathulate, about 11-nerved: general 
umbels 8-10 rayed; partial ones 10-14-flowered: leaflets of* the 
involucre and involucel 5-6, obovate, cuneate or oblong, decurrent 
on the stem, forming acute angles: fruit prominently ribbed: inter~ 
stices with single vittze : flowers yellow. 
Elk hill, Neilgherries, flawering in the rainy season. 
GENUS VI. SHSELI. 
Pentandria Digynia. Sex: Syst: 
Deriv. The Greek term for an umbelliferous plant.. 
Gen. Cuar. Calyx 5-toothed: petals obovate, emarginate or- 
entire, with an inflexed point: fruit crowned with the reflexed styles : 
mericarps with'5 prominent ridges: interstices with single vittze: 
commissura with two, (rarely 4) vittee-: seed nearly half terete, 
(1) S.Inpicum. (W.& A.) 
Ident. W.& A. prod. I. p. 371. 
Srrc. Cuar. Diffuse: slightly villous: stems furrowed: leaves. 
pinnated: segments roundish, entire or lobed, or pinnatifid, cut and 
toothed: general umbels on longish peduncles, with about 12 rays 3: 
partial ones many-flowered: leaves of the involucre and involucel 
about 8 or 10, lanceolate, with a subulate point, hairy: fruit some- 
what globose, covered, particularly on the ridges with straight hairs, 
furnished with two divaricating or reflexed points: tidges elevated, 
corky : vittze single in the interstices and under each ridge. 
Neilgherries. 
GENUS VII. ANETHUM. 
Pentandria Digynia. Sex: Syst: 
Deriv. From Ano, upwards, and Theo, to run, in allusion to the- 
quick growth of the species. 
Gen. Cuar. Margin of the calyx obsolete: petals roundish, 
entire, involute: fruit lenticularly-compressed on the back, sur- 
rounded by a flattened margin: mericarps with 5 equidistant filiform 
ridges, the dorsal and 2 intermediate ones acutely keeled, the lateral 
ones more obsolete and passing into the margin: vittee broad, soli- 
tary in and filling up the whole of each interstice, 2 on the commis- 
sura, 
