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fruit broad-oval : vite solitary bétween the ribs: commissura with 
2 vite: flowers yellow. S408 
In pastures near Belgaum. ‘The root is eatable and has the taste~ 
and odour of a carrot, (Dalz.) 
(3) P. orannis. (Dalz.) 
Ident. Dalz. Bomb. flor. p. 107. 
. Gen. Cuan. Stem 3 feet: root large, woody. perennial, quite 
smooth: leaves mostly radical, long-petioled, bipinnate: leaflets 
trilobate; lobes large, rounded: margins crenate-serrated, shining 
‘on both sides : cauline leaves 1-2, biternate: stem smooth, striated : 
involucre and involitel leaves oblong: fruit large, broadly obovate : 
Commissure with 4 vitte: partial rays numerous, many-flowered : 
flowers yellow. 
The Ghauts near Bombay. 
(4) P. Sprencenrana. (R. W.) 
Ident. Wight’s Icon. vol. III. 
Syn. Heracleum Sprengelianum, W. § A. prod. 1. p. 372. 
Engrav. Wight’s Icon. t. 1008. 
_Spxc. Cuan. Stem branched; furrowed when dry: leaves puber- 
ulous on both sides, unequally pinnate: pinne pinnatifid: divisions 
ovate, irregularly lobed: ultiniate division 3-lobed; lobes acute, 
serrated: petals equal: fruit nearly orbicular: vittze on the back 
Jinear, shorter than the fruit, the lateral ones in the middle of the 
interstices: vittee on the commissure 4, slightly clavate and unequal. 
Common about hedges on the Neilgherries. 
(5) P. ricens. (RB. W.) 
Ident. Wight’s Icon. vol. IIT. 
_ Syn. Heracleum rigens, Wall. W. & A. prod. I. p. 373.—Dec. 
prod. IV, p. 191. 
Engrav. Wight’s Icon. t. 1009.—Spicil. I. t. 82. 
Spec. Cuan. Stem slightly branched, furrowed, pubescent or 
hirsute: leaves ternate: divisions roundish, toothed, scabrous above, 
densely pubescent beneath, lateral ones'on a short petiole: terminal 
division bluntly 3-lobed or ternate: leaflets of the involucel ovate : 
petals equal : fruit obovate: vittee on the back linear, much shorter 
than the fruit, the lateral ones in paits and close to the intermediate 
ridges: vittee on the commissure 4, acute, unequal, the 2 outer the 
shorter :. flowers yellow. 
Dindigul Hills. Mysore, Pastures on the Neilgherries, Flow-. 
ering in the rainy. season. 
