UMBELLIFERZ. 127 
{marmaj) mentions an Indian seed having the appearance and 
properties of Daucus. 
Description,—Plant three to seven feet high, having very 
nuch the appearance of a garden parsnip which has run to 
- seed; root large, perennial, all quite smooth; leaves mostly 
radical, long-petioled, bipinnate; leaflets trilobate 3; lobes large, 
_ rounded; margins crenate serrate, shining on both sides ; 
cauline leaves 1 to 2, biternate ; stem round, smooth, striated; 
involucre and involucel leaves oblong or obovate, obtuse, par- 
_ tial rays numerous, many flowered ; flowers yellow ; fruit large, 
broadly elliptical, varying in size, the largest are 3 of ‘an inch 
- long and 3 broad ; foliaceous, convex in the middle, with a 
dilated border, consisting of coarse cellular tissue ; colour red- 
dish yellow over the seed, margin pale yellow; dorsal ridges 
_ seven, the three central filiform ; vittee in dorsal furrows ten to 
_ thirteen ; vitteo of commissure six. The fruit has a powerful 
q lemon odour with a sowpgon of carrot. 
_ Chemical composition.—Twenty-five pounds of the fruit dis- 
tilled with water yielded 6 fluid ounces of a light yellow 
essential oil having the odour of the fruit; it was dextrogyre, 
column of 100 m. m. rotating 86 degrees. ‘The specific 
tavity at 15°-5 C. was -9008. Cooled to —14° C. it was still 
quid and no crystals separated. After dehydration the oil 
mmenced to boil at 76° C., the temperature rapidly rose to 
100° C., when a few drops distilled over; the temperature 
ntinued to rise rapidly to 185° C., up to this temperature 
per cent. distilled over. The subsequent progress of ie 
pein may be tabulated as Eat — 
2nd fraction ...... 185° to 190° ...,.. 17 per cent. 
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