Anethum. pentandria digynia. 95 



Beng. Panrnwhwree. 



Sans. Mwdhoorika. 



Mayuri. See Asiat. Res. 11. 15(>. 



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, raraous, 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. FiBniculiim which this plant re- 

 sembles. Umbzls 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 Fceniculum 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 I should certainly 

 have thought them at most nothing but varieties of the 

 same species, if 1 had not had both growing before me 

 for several 3 ears in the Botanic Garden at Calcutta where 

 plants of ^ FcBniculum reared from Europe seed do not 

 blossom till the second year, during which period the 

 leaves are bifari;)us, infinitely larger and more divided 

 than in Panmuhuree, Mhich is an annual plant of only 

 four or five months duration with the leaves at all times 

 scattered, fewer and more remote. 



