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or perennial, tall. Leaves 2-3-4-pinnate, ultimate 

 segments linear. Bracts ; bracteoles 0, or few small linear. Calyx-teeth 0. 

 Petak yellow, emarginate. Fruit not laterally compressed, oblong or ellipsoid ; 

 carpels ^terete, ridges prominent subequal, furrows 1-vittate ; carpophore 2- 

 partite. Seed somewhat dorsally compressed, inner face slightly concave. — 

 DisTRiB. Species 3-4^ from the Canaries to Western Asia, 1 widely cultivated. 



^1. p. vulgrare, Gae?-tn. Fruct. i. 105, t. 23. fig. 5 ; DC. Prodr. iv. 142 ; W. 

 J A. Prodr. 371 ; Wight Ic. t. 615 ; Kurz in Joum. As. Soc. 1877, pt. ii. 116. 

 F. officinale, Allion. ; Boiss. Fl. Orient. 'u. 976. F. dulce, C. Bauh. ; DC. I. c; 

 F. Pamnorium, DC. I. c. ; Wight Ic. t. 670. Anethum Foeniculum, Linn. ; 

 Roxh. Sort. Bmg. 22. A. Panmorium, Roxh. Hort. Beng. 22, Fl. Ind. ii. 94 ; 

 Fleming Cat. Ind. Med. PI. 6 : Wall. Cat. 7211. Ozodia foeniculacea, W. ^ A. 

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' Commonly cultivated throughout India, alt. 0-6000 ft.; often appearing wild. 

 DiSTRiB. Widely cultivated. 



The Indian examples have the ultimate segments of the leaves very long ; the 

 form F. piperitum DC, ; Bo'Us. Fl, Orient, ii. 975 ; Rewk. Ic. FL Germ. t. 1931 (with 

 short linear ultimate segments) has not been communicated from India. 





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Tall, perennial herbs. Leaves 3-4-pinnate. Umbels compound; bracts and 

 bracteoles many. Calyx-teeth 0. Petals emarginate, yellow. FruU oblong, 

 commissure broad ; carpels ^terete, dorsally compressed, inner face nearly 

 plane but the epicarp there thin, introflexed in a deep T-shaped groove; 

 epicarp spongy; primary ridges large, subequal or the lateral larger; vittse 

 8^all, numerous ; carpophore 2-partite. Seed dorsally compressed, inner face 

 wightly concave, with a deep narrow T-shaped groove. — ^Distrtb. Species 25, 

 ^ the Mediterranean and West Asian regions. % * 



JI. P. pabularia, Lindl. in Quart. Jcmm. Sc. xix. (1824) 7; glabrous, 

 tiltimate segments of the leaves ^-1 in. setaceous, fruit ridges undulate furrows 

 rough with corrugations. DC. Prodr. iv. 239 ; Wall. PL As. Ear. ii. 7, t. 212. 

 ■Laserpitium sp. Wall in Trans. Agri. ^ Hort. Soc. Ind. i. 74r-82. 



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 ?tyles short, early reflexed. Seed -^-^ in. diam. 



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 ^rely reduced almost to sheaths. Umbels compound j bracts 0-1 (in Indian 

 species); bracteoles several linear. Flowers white, often polygamous, males 

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