106 



2. HELOSCIADIUM, Koeh. 



]. H Heyneanum, DC. Prod. 4, p 106. — Annual, glabrous, 

 2 feet high ; gtem erect, slightly branched ; leaves long-petioled, 

 ternate, segments shortly petioled, lanceolate acuminate or tripartite, 

 toothed ; umbels long-peduncled, without involucre or involucels ; 

 rays 5 to 20, elongated, partial umbels 5 to 8-flowered ; fruit orbi- 

 cular, glabrous. The Concans ; flovirers in August and September. 

 Syn. Anethum trifoliatum, Roxb. Fl Ind ii, p 96, not Apium tri- 

 foliatum, as stated by W. and A. 



3. PIMPINELLA, Linn; 



1. Involucbata, W. and A. Prod. 1, p 369. — Stem erect, 2 to 

 3 feet, dichotomous, glaucous ; leaves ternate, cut and pinnated, or 

 sometimes entire in the upper leaves, lobes in the lower leaves 

 linear-oblong and short; umbels with 6 to 8 rays; leaflets of the. 

 involucre and involucel about 6, subulate entire, styles reflexed ; 

 fruit slightly ribbed, minutely muricated all over. Very common in 

 the Goncans. Syn. Apium involucratum, Roxb. Fl Ind. ii, p 97 ; 

 Ptychotis roxburghiana, DC. Prod. 4, p 109. 



2. P Lateriflora, Dalz. — 1 to 1 ^ foot high, puberulous, erect ; 

 leaves ternate; leaflets twice ternately divided, lobes of the lower 

 leaves lanceolate, of the upper linear, all acute and mucronate ; 

 peduncles long, slender, leaf-opposed ; umbels 3 to 10, involucre of 

 3 to 7 subulate leaflets ; involucel leaves similar, about 7, as long 

 as the pedicels ; flowers pink ; fruit densely covered with small 

 granular tubercles. Ravines in the Deccan ; common. 



3. Adscendens, Dalz. in Hook. Jour. Bot. ii, p 261. — Stems 

 diffuse ascending ; leaves radical-pinnated, half afooflong; leaflets 6 

 jiair, rounded-ovate, truncate or cuneate at the base, coarsely 

 and unequally crenate serrate, stem leaves few ; leaflets 1 to 2 

 pair, uppermost ones much divided ; flowers white ; fruit ovate, 

 minutely bristly. Banks of rivers in the Concan. The whole 

 plant smells like Parsley. 



4. MoNoicA, Dalz. loc. cit. iii, p 212. — Stem 6 to 8 feet high, 

 round, glabrous, smooth, simple below, branched above ; branches 

 alternate and bifarious, lower leaves long-petioled, pinnately trifo- 

 liolate, partial petioles long, leaflets cordate lanceolate with minute 

 cartilaginous teeth, upper leaves multifid, divisions filiform or 

 reduced to mere sheaths ; involucre one-leaved or none ; involucel 

 few-leaved, terminal ; umbels fruit-bearing, lateral ones male; fruit 

 covered with pellucid granules ; flowers white, appear in November 

 on the highest Ghauts. 



