. 497 
Spec, Cuan. Stem neagl; simple, furrowed, coarsely pubescent 
or somewhat hirsute with glutinous hairs: leaves nearly radical, 3 
lobed, toothed, slightly pubescent above, shortly tomentose beneath : 
lobes roundish, toothed, the terminal one the largest and often 3+ 
lobed ; upper stem-leaves few, occasionally reduced to mere sheaths: 
umbels long-peduncled, 6—10-rayed: leaflets of the involuere deci- 
duous after flowering, lanceolate-subulate, of the invalucel oblong- 
lanceolate : commissure with 2 vittee: petals unequal, whitish, with 
a tinge of red. 
Frequent in pastures on the slopes of the hills and mountains in 
the South of the Peninsula. Flowering in the rainy season. 
GENUS IX. HERACLEUM. 
Pentandvria Digynia. Sex: Syst: 
Deviv. From Heracles, a plant sacred to Hercules. 
Gen. Cuar. Herbaceous plants: leaves lobed or pinnatifid: 
talyx 5-toothed : petals obovate, emarginate, with the point inflexa 
‘ed, the exterior ones often larger, spreading and 2+cleft: umbels 
compound; involucres obsolete: fruit compressed from the back, 
thin, with a broad border: ridges 5, filiform, the three dorsal ones 
near each other, the lateral distant: vittz 1 to each furrow: come 
missure with 2 vitte. 
(1) H. reparum. (2. W) 
Ident. Wight’s Icon. vol. IT. part I. 
Engrav. Wight’s Icon. t. 342. 
Spkc. Cuar. . Stem branched}. ends of the branches petiales atid 
peduncles hairy: leaves pedate: leaflets ovate, acute, doubly-serrate 
pd: the middie one sometimes 3-lobed, all slightly pubescent on 
both sides: involucel-leaves Jinearslanceolate: flowers.of the centre 
of the umbels with equal petals and male or sterile; those of the 
circumference with unequal petals, bisexual and fertile, © = 
Forests on the Shevagherry sills, flowering in September. 
(2) H. Concanense. (Dale. ) 
Ident. Dalz. Bomb. flor. p. 107.-Hook, Jour. Bot, IL, p. 260, 
Src. Cuar. Hispid with spreading hairs: stem striated, dicho» 
tomously branched: leaves biternate: leaflets 3-lobed or ternately 
cut: segments ovate, cuneate at the base, unequally serrated, upper 
leaves reduced toa sheath: involucre 1—-8-leaved: leaflets of the 
fnvolucel 5, ovate-acyininate, 3-nerved : fruit ovate: dorsal vittas 
10; vittee on the commissure 6: flowers white. 
Concan hills, flowering in July. —% 
