UMBELLIFER.®. 129 
- Description.—The fruits of the Indian plant, which has 
some been called Anethum Sowa, do not differ in any im- 
ortant respect from those of the European plant. The meri- 
arps are somewhat narrower and more convex, the ridges 
more distinct, and the border less winged. 
— -Ohemical composition.— Dill fruits yield from 3 to 4 per cent. 
_ of an essential oil, a large proportion of which was found by 
' Gladstone (1864-72) to be a hydrocarbon, C'°H'®, to which 
q he gave the name Anethene. This substance has a lemon-like 
odour, sp- gr. 0°846, and boils at 172°C. It deviates a ray of 
a light strongly to the right. Nietazki (1874) ascer- 
_ tained that there is, moreover, present another hydrocarbon, 
_C'°F'S, in a very small proportion, which boils at 155 to 160°. 
third constituent of oil of Dill is in all probability identical 
with carvol. (Pharmacographia, 2nd Ed., p. 328.) 
_ Commerce.—Suva is cultivated throughout tropical and 
sub-tropical India in the- cold season. Value, Rs. 3% per 
narrah (about 35 lbs.). 
CORIANDRUM SATIVUM, Linn. — 
-Fig.—Bentl. and Trim., ¢. 133. Coriander (Hng.), Coriandre 
: Hab.— Cultivated in India, The fruit. 
Vernacular.—Dhanya (Hind.), Dhanya, Dhana (Mar., Guz.), 
amalli (J’am.), Danyalu (Zel.), Kottumbari (Can.). 
History, Uses, &c.--The Coriander plant is called 
othmir, a name derived from the Sanskrit Kusthumbari; when 7 
