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Cat. 7208 and 7209), of which I do not possess specimens; Cnidium diffusum, and 
Seseli Indicum, in the plains of Southern India. 
~~ new genera which have been detected in the Himalayas, are Eriocycla, Tra- 
chydium, Cortia, Tordyliopsis, Pycnocycla, Vicatia, Hymenolena, and Hymenidium. Of 
these, the two last are found only on such lofty mountains as Gossainthan, Choor, and 
Kedarkanta, as well as on Peerpunjal, whence also I have received the specimens of 
Trachydium. Prangos has only been discovered in the plains of Tatary, and Ferula in 
the mountains of Persia and Caubul. 
The remaining Umbellifere, which are known in India are those found only in a 
cultivated state; but this from so remote a period as to have become perfectly natu- 
ralized, and known to the natives, as well as to have names given to them in the 
languages of different parts of the country; some also have not as yet been found 
in other parts of the world ; as Ptychotis Ajowan, known every where by the name 
Ajwain, slightly varied in different districts; Faniculum Panmorium, called sonf’ in 
Northern, and panmuhooree in Southern India ; Anethum Sowa, Arabic shubit, Hin- 
doostanee soya; Cuminum Cyminum, called kumoon and zeera suffed ; Apium graveolens, 
known only by the Arabic name hurufs ; Ptychotis (Pimpinella?) involucrata, called 
aneeson in Northern India, but chanoo and radhooni in Bengal : it is used by Europeans 
as a substitute for parsley. Daucus Carota, gajur; to which Dr. Roxburgh assigns 
gringana and gargara as Sanscrit, though Dr. Carey finds no authority for these names ; 
and Coriandrum sativum, Wall. Cat. 594, (marked by mistake Cuminum Cyminum, which 
is N. 7263 of the Catalogue,) cultivated probably in every part of India, as it is included 
among the Mysore exports by Dr. Buchanan, and has several names assigned it by 
Dr. Ainslie, but is omitted in the Prod. Fl. India Penins. It is known in the north of 
India, as in Bengal, by the name dhunya ; kushneez is assigned as the Persian; and 
huzeereh as the Arabic name. In addition to these, Ptychotis sylvestris, nob., called 
arub ajwain, is used as a carminative by the natives; and a kind of carraway, zeera seeah, 
Carum nigrum, nob., is imported from Kunawur. 
Having frequently seen that the Persian works in use in India apply what they call 
Yoonanee, or Greek names, to many of the plants and medicines in use there, it is 
interesting to ascertain, whether, in a family so numerous in species, and of which so 
many are mentioned in the writings of the ancients, these are applied with suffi- 
cient discrimination, and at the same time, correspondence with the results obtained in 
Europe, as to warrant reliance being placed on their determinations in other cases. 
The results of this investigation appear very satisfactory : as, for instance, commencing 
with those best known in both countries, Coriander (x0) has korioon, and Cumin has 
kumoon, assigned as their Greek names. Celery, known in India only by the name 
which it is described in Avicenna, hurufs, has salioon and osaliyoon, evident corrup- 
In Persian works, the Arabic name razecanwj, the Persian 
are applied to Feniculum Panmorium, a 
carcely to differ, by Messrs. Wight 
and 
under 
tions of vsAwov and <cAaucrsAwoy. 
badian, Hindoostanee sonf, Greek marithon, 
species so like I’. vulgare (jucepentpov), as considered s 
