UMBELDIFERA. 
Umbellifers. 
N° 95. 
CORIANDRUM SATIVUM. 
CoRIANDER. 
Place—FEurope. 
Quality—Nauseous. 
Power—Carminative, driving away milk. 
Use—The seeds in hysterics, tertian ague. 
BOTANICAL ANALYSIS. 
Natural Order. Umbellate.—J. Umbellifere. —J. 
Cuiass V. Pentandria. Orper Digynia. 
Willd. Sp. Pl. 1448. Woodv. Med. Bot. 137. Smith, Flor. Brit. 320. Louden, 
Ency. Pl. 208. Lind!. Flor. Med. 58. U. 8. Dis. 275. Per. El. Mat. Med. UJ. 508 
Gulf. Mat. Med. 341. Wood. C. B. 294. 
Genus. CORIANDRUM. 
From the Greek xopis,a bug; on account of the smell of the leaves. } 
Synoxymes.—Coriandre( F:), Koriander Saamen (G.). Koriander (Dutch, Swed. and 
Dan.), Koriandor (Pol.), Coriandro (Port.), Coriandro (I), Semilla de Clantro (8.), 
Cottamillie (Tam.), Mety (Malay), Kezereh (Arab.), Kitauez (Pers.), D’hanya (#1), 
D’amyaca (San.) 
THE ESSENTIAL CHARACTERS. 
Catyx adhering to the ovary, entire or five-toothed. 
Corotta. Petals, five, usually inflected at the point, imbricate 
in estivation. : if 
Sramens. Five, alternate with the petals and inserted with them 
upon the disk. pee Pe 
Ovary, inferior, two-celled surmounted by the fleshy disk, which 
bears the stamens and petals. Styles, two : distinct, ec 
united at their thickened bases. Stigma, simple. ee 
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