360 
Plants of the Punjab. 
Heres, Erect, with ALTERNATE ExsriputatE LoBep Leaves. 
Cnothera rosea, 
Eryngium 
ceruleum, 
Dudhahi, poli, 
pahari gajar. 
UMBELLIFERZ. 
BB. £01,669. 
Kashmir, 
5-6,000 ft. 
Eryngium 
Billardieri, 
UMBELLIFERA. 
Pep, 1. 1.670. 
Kashmir, 
5-6,000 ft. 
Sanicula europaea, 
Sanicle 
UMBELLIFERS. 
F. B. I. 11. 670. 
Himalaya, 
4-12,000 ft. 
Simla, Mashobra 
(Collett). 
Kashmir. 
Coriandrum 
sativum, 
Cuminum Cyminum, 
PETALS UNUNITED. 
see Herbs, Erect, Alternate, Exstipulate, Simple, 
Toothed. 
medium size to large, perennial, stem unbranched 
below, branched above, smooth, spinous ; leaves radical, 
5 by 132 in., stalks 2-6 in., oblong-heart-shaped, not lobed, 
round-toothed, not spiny, lower stem leaves similar, but 
smaller, upper stem leaves sessile, palmately divided into 
lanceolate spiny segments; flowers small, white, in un- 
branched heads, bracts 5-6, 1 in., linear with a few spines 
on the margins, bracteoles linear, spiny, longer than the 
flowers, calyx 5-toothed, teeth lanceolate, awl-shaped, 
spiny, calyx tube densely scaly, petals 5, white, narrow, 
erect, stamens 5; fruit } in., nearly cylindric, carpels 2, 
dorsally nearly flat, nearly concave on the inner face, 
primary ridges not prominent, secondary absent, oil canals 
inconspicuous, axis wanting, one seed in each carpel. The 
root is taken as an aphrodisiac and nervine tonic. 
very like the last species, but radical and lower stem 
leaves are divided and the stem is branched below. 
medium size to large, annual, smooth ; leaves palmate- 
ly divided into 8-5 segments, ovate, toothed, often lobed, 
teeth finely pointed, radical leaves 2-6 in. diam., long- 
stalked, stem leaves few, smaller, umbels are formed of 
small umbels on rays, bracts few, leaf-like, rays unequal, 
frequently forking, branches ending in a small head of 
flowers with small linear bracteoles, flowers minute, white, 
chiefly one sexual perfect, flowers sessile, male stalked, 
calyx tube woolly, almost prickly, teeth green, lanceolate, 
petals white, notched. fruit 4, in., ovoid, flattened, covered 
with hooked bristles; for other characters see the last 
species. 
see Herbs, Erect, Alternate, Exstipulate, Compound. 
seo Herbs, Erect, Alternate, Exstipulate, Compound. 
