138 Umbelliferz. [ Eryngium. 
ib. EryNGiumM Linn. 
Herbs or shrubs, usually spiny, usually glabrous; fis. in 
heads or dense spikes, hermaphrodite; calyx-teeth ridged, 
acute; petals erect, clawed, emarginate, scarcely imbricate; 
fruit ovoid, scarcely compressed; vitte usually 0; seeds 
subterete.—Sp. 150; cosmopolitan. 
E. Fe@tipium Linn. Sp. Pl. p. 232 (1753); Fawc. & Rendle Fl. Jam. 
V, 3, p- 427 f. 154 (1926). Andu, S. 
A glabrous, spiny, erect, biennial herb, about 1% ft. high, 
dichotomously branched; leaves mostly radical, oblong- 
lanceolate, 3-5 in. long, margin spinosely toothed; bracts 
surrounding the spikes deeply lobed, about 1 in. long; fils. 
in short cylindrical spikes, spikes up to 4 in. long. 
Waste grassy places. Peradeniya; Gammaduva. Fls. Apr., June, 
Dec. ; greenish. 
Native of Tropical America. 
Page 277.—For Bupleurum virgatum W. & A. read: 
B. Wightii Polj. in Journ. Russe Bot. VI, p. 7 (1913). B. nervo- 
sum Moon Cat. p. 22 (1814) nomen, non Trevir. B. virgatum W. & A. 
Prodr. p. 370 (1834); Trim. 1. c. p. 277 nec Cav. nec Walle ee 
catum Thw. Enum. p. 131 (1859) non Linn. B. mucronatum W. & A. 
non Brouss. var. virgatum Clarke in Fl. Brit. Ind. II, p. 676 (1879); 
Wolff. Umbellifere in Engl. Pflanzenreich IV, 228, p. 145 (1910). 
Endemic. 
4. CARUME Linn. 
Fruit glabrous or minutely pubero-punctate : 
Fruit ovoid; vittze small . : ; : . (CC, STICTOCARPUM. 
Fruit elliptic-oblong ; vittze large . : . C. nothum: 
Fruit hispid ; : : ; : ; . C. Roxburghianum. 
C. ROXBURGHIANUM Benth. 
Trimen’s specimen has been transferred to Coriandrum sativum 
Linn. by Smith, apparently correctly. 
4a. ApiumM Linn. 
A. LEPTOPHYLLUM F. Muell. ex Benth. Fl. Austr. III, p. 372 (1866) ; 
Sprague in Journ. Bot. LXI, p. 129 (1923). A. ammzi Urb. in Mart. 
Fl. Bras. -XI, I, p. 241 t. 91 (1879); Petch in Ann. Perad) Vileaaee 
(1922) non Crantz. Sison ammi Jacq. Hort. Vindob. II, p. 95 t. 200 
HEE non Linn. AHeliosciadum leptophyllum DC. Prodr. II, p. 105 
1830). 
Appeared in waste ground at Haputale in 1917. 
Native of Mexico and the Southern U.S. 
CoORIANDUM Linn. 
C. sativum Linn. Sp. Pl. p. 256 (1753). 
An occasional weed. 
A native of S. Europe. 
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