12 LXVIII, UMBELLIFERE (HIERN). | Ammé. 
1. A. majus, Linn. ; DC. Prod. iv.112. Subglaucescent, 1} ft. high 
or more ; stem terete. Lobes of petals often unequal; stamens not ex- 
ceeding the petals. Primary rays of the umbel sometimes 2 in. long, 
slender, and as well as the secondary rays scattered with a few minute 
serrulate points; secondary rays 1-2 in. long, about equalling the 
linear acute bracteoles; bracts of the involucre 3-1 in. long. Fruit 
qs in. long.—A. pauciradiatum, Hochst. in Hb. Schimp. Abyssin. n. 
376. 
Wile Land. Abyssinia, fl. September, Schimper ! 
Grows in fresh-ploughed land; perhaps introduced with grain from Egypt, where it 
is common. 
Widely spread throughout the Mediterranean regions. 
Abyssinian name Kuerta-adegi. 
11. CARUM, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. i. 890. 
Calyx-teeth obsolete or small; petals oval or obovate, with inflected 
acumen, entire or bilobed, white or yellow. Stylopods conical or thick. 
Fruit ovate or oblong, laterally compressed ; commissure wide or nar- 
rowed ; mericarp 5-sided or subterete; primary ridges blunt, somewhat 
prominent, the lateral ones marginal at the commissure. Vitti soli- 
tary between the ridges, 2 in each commissural-face. Carpophore bi- 
partite or bifid. Seed subterete—Herbs glabrous or the fruit only 
papillose with scarcely glabrous umbels and hairy petals. Leaves 
pinnately decompound, with narrow segments. Umbels regularly com- 
pound with several or many primary and secondary rays. Involucre 
of 0, 1, or few bracts, and involucels with 0 or several bracteoles. 
Flowers usually hermaphrodite. 
A considerable genus, widely distributed, and chiefly inhabiting the t te and 
subtropical regions of the world. , Y ing the temperate 
1. C. copticum, Benth. et Hook. f. Gen Plant.i. 891. Pale glauces- 
cent, slender. Stem erect branched, terete, striate, 1-3 ft. high. Leaves 
multifid with linear segments, the uppermost ones simply pinnatilobed ; 
petioles sheathing. Umbels at the ends of stem and branches with 
very short hairs on the secondary rays, bracteoles, and sometimes on 
the bracts; primary rays of fruiting umbels about } in. long, secondary 
rays about 1-10th in. long; involucre and involucels of several linear 
leaves shorter than the rays. Petals roundly-obovate, bilobed, ciliate 
on the margins and on the midrib outside, white; filaments about 
equalling the petals: Fruit ovate, muricate or papillose, 1-12th in. 
ong, contracted at the commissure. Carpophore bifid.— Ptychotis cop- 
tica, DC. Prod. iv. 108. me y f 
Nile Land. Abyssinia, teste Schweinfurth! 
Occurs also in Egypt and India, 
Carum Carvi, L., DC. Prod. iv. 115, Caraway, is cultivated i 
white flowers, glabrous fruit, and neither involucre nor involucels 
pea on jRidolfia, Benth. et Hook. f. l.c., see note under Peucedanum graveolens, 
It has yellow flowers, glabrous fruit, and neither involucre nor involucels. 
n Abyssinia. It has 
