Apium. PENTANDRIA DIGYNIA, 97 
APIUM. Schreb. gen. n. 499. 
Involucre one or more leaved, Petals equal. Flow- 
ers all fertile. Fruit small, gibbous, ribbed. Style de- 
flexed. 
Annual, glaucous, villous, superior leaflets filiform both 
general and partial about six-leaved. 
Beng. Chanoo, also Radlrooni- 
Hind. Ujmood, Ujmud, 
I have only met with this plantin its cultivated state 
_ and itis often raised in our Gardens in India as a sub- 
stitute for parsley, A.petroselinum. It is’cultivated over 
many parts of Bengal during the cold season, for the seed 
only, which the natives use in diet, and medicine ; the 
leaves they make no use of. | 
Root annual, white, penetrating deeply into the soil. 
Stem erect, flexuous, glaucous, slightly villous. Branches 
numerous, and like the stem ; height of the whole plant 
about three feet. Leaves alternate, petioled, decompound 
by ternary. Leaflets, of the lower leaves broad, variously 
and deeply cut; of the superior ones narrower, ever to li- 
near, and often simple. Umbel, universal, generally of 
about six spreading rays; in luxuriant plants these are 
sometimes proliferous ; partial, of from twelve to twenty. 
_ Involucre and Involucels of about six villous subulate 
leaflets. The first shorter than the rays; the latter of 
nearly the same length. Flowers numerous, all fertile, 
white. Perianth scarcely any. Petals ovate, with a long, 
taper, inflected apex. Seed small, ovate, villous, gib- 
bous, and three-ribbed on the back. 
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