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4. POLYZYGUS, Dalz. 



1 . TuBEROSTJs, 'Dalz. Mss. in Hook. Jour. Bot. ii, p 260. — 

 Glabrous, one foot high ; roots tuberous ; stem erect with few 

 branches, angled and furrowed above ; leaves twice ternate ; leaflets 

 three times ternate, pinnately divided, segments cuneate and ovate, 

 unequally serrated ; umbels terminal and axillary, naked ; involucre 

 none ; involucel 3-leaved ; flowers white ; fruit compressed on the 

 back, smooth, shining, many-ribbed ; commissure with 8 vittae. 

 Malwan ; flowers in June and July. 



5. PASTINACA. 



1. Glauca, Dalz. loc. cit. vol. iv, p 293. — Glabrous glaucous ; 

 stem rigid, scarcely branched ; leaves radical, somewhat coriaceous, 

 long-petioled, pinnately divided ; leaflets 3 to 5, sometimes entire, 

 more frequently deeply 2 to 3-lobed ; lobes obovate mucronate 

 entire ; involucre and involucel leaves few, lanceolate ; floweis 

 yellow ; fruit broadly oval ; vittai linear, solitary between the ribs ; 

 commissure with 2 vittse. In pastures near Belgaum. Native 

 name " Kolund." The root is eaten, and has the taste and odour 

 of a Carrot. 



2. P Geandis. — 3 feet high ; root large, woody, perennial, all 

 quite smooth ; leaves mostly radical, long-petioled, bipinnate ; leaflets 

 trilobate; lobes large rounded, margins crenate serrate, shining on 

 both sides ; cauline leaves 1 to 2, biternate ; stem as thick, as the 

 little finger at the base, round, smooth, striated ; involucre and 

 involucel leaves oblong or obovate-obtuse, partial rays numerous, 

 manyrflowered ; flowers yellow ; fruit large, broadly obovate ; 

 commissure with 4 linear vittse. The Ghauts near Bombay. 

 Native name " Baphullee." 



6. HERACLEUM, 



1. CoNCANENSE, Dalz. in Hook. Jour. Bot. ii, p 260. — 2 feet in 

 height, all hispid with spreading hairs ; stem striated, dichotomously 

 branched ; leaves twice ternate ; leaflets 3-lobed, or ternately cut, 

 segments ovate, cuneate at the base, unequally serrated, upper leaves 

 reduced to a sheathing petiole ; involucre I to 3-leaved ; involucel 

 5-leaved, the leaflets ovate acuminate, 3-nerved ; flowers white ; 

 fruit ovate, glabrous; dorsal vittee 10; commissure with 6 vittae. 

 Hills in the Concan ; flowers in July. 



2. H PiNDA. — 1 to 1^ foot high ; root perennial, as thick as the 

 finger, the whole plant clothed with long, weak, white, flat hairs ; 

 stem erect-branched ; leaves mostly radical, long-petioled, bipin- 

 nately divided ; segments cuneate at the base, coarsely toothed, the 

 teeth mucronate ; umbels terminal, with 6 to 8 rays ; radii unequal j 



