Coriandrum. PENTANDRIA DIGYNIA, 93 
Arab. Kimoon. 
A Native of Persia, &c. and the western parts of Asia. 
PHELLANDRUM. Schreb. gen.n. 485. 
Umbelliferous, no universal involucre; partial one, 
many-leaved. Florets equal, all fertile. Fruit ovate, 
smooth, crowned with the calyx, and styles. 
P. stoloniferum. R. 
Stoloniferous, erect. Inferior leaves bipinnate ; supe- 
rior quinate, and ternate ; leaflets lanceolate, serrate. 
Beng. Pan-turasee, 
A native of Bengal, and found: flourishing in, and on 
the margins of sweet water, about the beginning of the 
‘hot season, 
Roots running, fistulous, jointed, emitting fibres and 
long creeping stolones from the joints. Stem erect, striat- 
ed, fistulous, winding; from two to four feet high. Leaves, 
the inferior ones composed of one or two lateral pairs of 
ternate, and a terminal quinaté portion; the superior ones, 
quinate and ternate. Leafletslanceolate, smooth, serrate, 
Umbels leaf-opposed, long-peduncled, convex, many-ray- 
ed. Umbellets convex, many-rayed with inyolucles of 
many shortish, linear leaflets, Calyx ; perianth proper 
of five, large, conspicuous toothlets. | Corol proper, 
five-petalled, uniform, white, ovate, with long, inflect- 
ed points. Fruit mboyaic, smooth, crowned as in the ge- 
nus, . 
_I do not find that the natives make any use of any part 
of this plant; its taste, both seeds and leaves is some- 
what aromatic, but not ‘palatable. 
E CORIANDRUM. Schreb. gen. n. 488. 
Corol radiated. Petals inflex, emarginate. Universal : 
involucre one-leaved ; partial ones halved. - Fruit sphe- 
