Anethum, _ PENTANDRIA DIGYNIA. 95. 
Beng. Panmuhuree. 
Sans. Mudhoorika. 
Mayuri. See Asiat. Res. 11. 156. 
Like Sowa this plant is cultivated in various parts of 
Bengal during the cold season for the seed, which the 
natives eat with their betle and also use in their curries, 
Seed time the close of the rains, about the end of Octo- 
ber. Harvest in March, when the plants perish. 
Root white, nearly fusiform, and almost simple. Stem 
erect, ramous, from the base to the top, the branches 
also erect, round and smooth, with a uniform, pale, glau- 
cous tinge, and not striated as in Dill, and Sowa, the 
general height of the whole plant from two to four feet. 
Leaves alternate, scattered, supra-decompound, divisions 
round, tapering, smooth and filiform, but by no means 
SO numerous as in A. Feniculum which this plant re- 
sembles, Umbels terminal, ‘rather concave, but not 
regular, the convex, from ten to thirty-flowered umbel- 
lets, of which there are generally from ten to twenty, 
standing on peduncles of very unequal lengths. Flowers 
small, bright, deep yellow. Petals long, ovate, with 
their apices rolled in. Stamens longer than the petals, 
Germ oblong. Styles scarcely any, Seeds exactly as in 
Anethum Fenculum and with the same taste, 
"The seeds of this plant, for which it is cultivated, pos- 
sess a pleasant, warmish, very sweet taste, and aromatic 
smell so much like. sweet fennel that J should certainly 
have thought them at Most nothing but varieties of the 
Same species, if I had not had both growing before me 
for several years in the Botanic Garden at Calcutta where 
plants of A. Feniculum reared from Europe seed do not 
blossom till the second year, during which period the 
leaves are bifarious, infinitely larger and more divided 
than in Panmuhuree, which is an annual plant of only 
four or five months duration with the loaves at es times © : 
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