495 
(1) A. Sowa. {Roxd.) 
Ident, W.& A. prod. I. p, 372.—Roxb. fl, Ind. If. p. 96.— 
Dec. prod. IV. p. 186. 
Engrav. Wight’s Tcon. t. 572, 
. Spec. Cuar. Annual, erect, glabrous: leaves decompound : Jobes 
linear, setaceous: involucres and involucels wanting: fruit oblong : 
seed slightly convex, flat in front: flowers small, yellow. 
Peninsula. Bengal, flowering in February, The aromatic seeds 
are used for culinary and medicinal purposes, 
GENUS VIII. PASTINACA, 
Pentandria Digynia. Sex: Syst: 
Derio. From Pastinum, a dibble, 
form of the roots. 
Gen. Cuan. Herbaceous plants with fusiform and often fleshy 
roots : leaves pinnated, the segments toothed, cut or lobed: umbels 
compound: involucre .and involucel wanting or few-leaved : calyx 
5-toothed : petals roundish, entire, involute, the involute part broad 
and retuse: fruit flat-compressed dorsally, surrounded by a dilated 
flattened margin: mericarps with very: slender ridges, the dorsal 
and 2 intermediate ones equidistant, the lateral contiguous to the 
dilated margin: vittee linear, scarcely shorter than the ridges, soli+ 
tary in each. interstice, 2 or more on the commissura: carpophore 
bipartite : seed flattened. 
in allusion to the peculiar 
(1) P. xieusriciroria. 
Ident. W.& A. prod. I. p. 372, 
Syn. P. Candolleana, W. & A. 1. ¢, 
Engrav. Wight’s Ill. IT. t. 116. 
Sprec. Cuan. Stem slightly striated, pubescent at the apex and 
on the rays: leaves glabrous, ultimate divisions pinnatifid or lobed 7 
segments ovate, acute, serrated : leaflets of the involucre and inyoa 
lucel linear-oblong, acuminated, deciduous : fruit oval, very glabrous, 
polished : lateral vittee close to the intermediate ridges : commissura 
with 2 vittze: flowers whitish. 
Neilgherries. 
(2) P, eravea. (Dalz.) 
Ident. Dalz. Bomb, flor. p. 107.—Hook. Jour. Bot, IV. p. 293, 
_Sprzc. Cua. Glabrous, glaucous: stem rigid, scarcely branched 
leaves radical, somewhat coriaceous, long-petioled, pinnately divid- 
ed: leaflets 3-5, entire or more-usually 2—8-lobed : lobes obovate, 
mucronate, entire: involuere and involucel-leaves few, lanceolate ; 
