122 UMBELLIFERA). 
by some on account of its coriander-like flavour. It is wortu) 
of remark that the Marathi name r4n-dhani (wild coriander) 
in use in Bengal. The fruit of this plant must not be co 
founded with the Bori-ajmod or Tukm-i-karafs of the shops 
which is celery fruit imported from Persia, Réndhani is som 
times used asa carminative in dyspepsia, and is probably a f 
substitute for caraways. The fruit is about ;4, of an inch 
length, and is studded with blunt simple hairs ; each merica 
has five ridges, which are paler than the spaces between them, 
and about 15 vittes. The wild form (C. stictocarpum) is a much 
more slender plant, and has fruit about half the size of t 
cultivated variety. . 
APIUM GRAVEOLENS, Lim. 
Fig.— Eng. Bot, zvii., t. 1210. Celery (Eng.), Céleri (F7-). 
Hab.—N.-W. Himalaya, Persia. The fruit. 
Vernacular.—Karafs (Arab., Ind. Bazar), Ajmod (Hind. 
Bodiajamo (Guz.), 
History, Uses, &c.—Celery does not appear to 
been known to the ancient Hindus. The Arabians proba 
obtained their knowledge of it from the Greeks. Diosco 
describes five kinds of ceAivov. Sprengel refers two of these 
Apium graveolens, viz., cedivov knraiov and édeooédwov, var, 8@ 
vum et sylvestre.* The Selinon of Theophrastus (H. P. i. | 
16, 19; iv. 9, viii. 5) was probably Celery; he also meni 
Hleioselinon (vii., 6). Hipposelinon (ix., 1.), a diuretic. 
root yielding a gum like scammony and Oreoselinon (vit:, 7 
Muhammad Husain, who wrote in India about one hundred 
twenty years ago, informs us that Karafs is the celery of 
Europeans and the Udasaliyun of the Greeks. . He desc 
three other kinds, viz., Sakhri, in Greck Fiturasaliyun ; N 
in Greek Akusaliyun ; and Tari, in Greek Shamarfniyun. W 
-* Conf. Dios. iii., 67, 68, 69, 70, 71. 
Scaerns ii, 25. wepi mabav 48. neients 
were given to the victors at the Isthmi 
upon tombs. It is the Apium | 
Ad 
Hipp. trepi vovecav ii. 19. 
‘made chaplets of ¢ 
