116 UMBELLIFERA. 
Cymene C'°H'* may also be artificially obtained from a 4 
large number of essential oils having the composition C!°H!®, — 
CrH'O, C'°H'60, or C1°H'8Q. It differs very remarkably — 
from the oil of the formula C!°H?6, inasmuch as cymene yiel 
crystallizable cymensulphonic acid, when it is warmed wi 
concentrated sulphuric acid. 
There is also present in oil of cumin a small amount of 
terpene, C!°H'S, boiling at 155°8 C. 
Warnecke obtained 8°09 per cent. of ash from cumin frui 
Commerce. —Cumin is grown in Northern India and is also 
imported from Persia and sometimes from Asia Minor. The 
exports, which range from 10 to 12 thousand ewts., are chiefl 
to Hastern ports, many of them Indian, Hurope only takin; 
from 500 to 600 ewts. The average value in India may 
stated at from Rs. 6 to 8 per Surat maund of 37% lbs. 
CARUM COPTICUM, Benth. 
Fig.— Wight Ic., t. 566; Jacq. Hort. Vind, tt. 52, OC 
Bentl. and Tsim., t. 120. Bishop’s weed, Lovage (Hug. 
Ammi de l’Inde (F’.). 
Hab.—Africa, cultivated in India. The fruit. — 
Vernacular.—Ajwain, Ajwén (Hind ), Joan, Ajowdn (Ben 
Ova, Ajma (Mar.), Ajamo (Guz.), Omam (Tam.), Om 
—-Vémamu (Tel.), Omu (Can.). : 
History, Uses, &c.—A small African seed called aps 
described by Dioscorides (ii 
. 
early Sanskrit writers under the name of Yavéni or Yavé 
“ of foreign origin,” and appears to have been one of se 
