Coriandrum, pentandria digynia. 93 



Arab. Kimoon. 



A Native of Persia, &c. and the western parts of Asia. 



. PHELLANDRUM. Schreb. gen.n.m5. 



Umbelliferous, no universal involucre ; partial one, 

 many-leaved. Florets equal, all fertile. Fruit ovate, 

 smooth, crowned with the calyx, and styles. 



P. stoloniferum. R. 



Stoloniferous, erect. Inferior leaves bipinnate ; supe- 

 rior quinate, and ternate ; leaflets lanceolate, serrate. 



Beng. Pan-t«<rasee. 



A native of Bengal, and found flourishing in, and on 

 the margins of sweet water, about the beginning of the 

 hot season. 



Roots running, fistulous, jointed, emitting fibres and 

 long creeping stolones from the joints. Stem erect, striat- 

 ed, fistulous, winding; from two to four feet high. Leaves^ 

 the inferior ones composed of one or two lateral pairs of 

 ternate, and a terminal quinate portion; the superior ones, 

 quinate and ternate. Xea^efs lanceolate, smooth, serrate. 

 Umbels leaf-opposed, long-peduncled, convex, many-ray- 

 ed. Umbellets convex, many-rayed with involucles of 

 many shortish, linear leaflets. Calyx ; perianth proper 

 of five, large, conspicuous toothlets. Corol proper, 

 five-petalled, uniform, white, ovate, with long, inflect- 

 ed points. Fruit obovate, smooth, crowned as in the ge- 

 nus. 



I do not find that the natives make any use of any part 

 of this plant ; its taste, both seeds and leaves is some- 

 what aromatic, but not palatable. 



CORIANDRUM. Sckreb. gen. n. 488, 

 Corol radiated. Petals inflex, emarginate. Universal 

 involucre one-leaved ; partial ones halved. Fruit sphe- 

 rical. 



