682 LXX. UMBELLIFEEJE. (C. B. Clarke.) [Carum. 



in., ovoid, ultimately shining, yellow, the dots microscopical, ridges faint ; 

 carpels semi-terete ; vittae solitary, small. 



VAR. hebecarpa ; fruit ^-^ in. hispidulous sometimes densely so and fuscous. 

 Ptychotis sp. 4. Herb. Ind. Or. H. f. $ T. Concan ; Stocks, Law. 



** Fruit hispid or muricate (see also C. stictocarpum No. 4). 



6. C. Roxburg-hianum, Benth. in Gen. PI. i. 891 ; ultimate segments 

 of the lower cauline leaves narrowly linear-lanceolate, bracteoles 4-8 linear-lan- 

 ceolate with scarious ciliate margins, fruit hispid. Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. 

 1877, pt. ii. 114. Apium involucratum, Roxb. Hort. Seng. 22, Fl. Ind. ii. 97 ; 

 Fleming Cat. Ind. Med. PL 6 ; Wight Ic. t. 567. Pimpinella ? involucrata, 

 W. 8f A. Prodr. 369 ; Wight Ic. t. 335 ; Dalz. fy Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 106. Atha- 

 mantha Roxburghiana, Wall. Cat. 571. Ptychotis Roxburghiana, DC. Prodr. 

 iv. 109. Phellandrium sp., Wall. Cat. 7217, fide W. $ A. 



Throughout INDIA extensively cultivated from HINDOOSTAN and BENGAL to SIN- 

 GAPORE and CEYLON. Not known wild. 



Probably a cultivated form of C. stictocarpum which it exactly resembles except 

 as to the fruit which is j^-^ in., the part used by man and therefore that which has 

 varied under cultivation. This shows a wide difference in size, colour, and hairiness 

 in the two forms, but there is a series of connecting links through the var. hebe- 

 carpa. In C. Roxburghianum, the fruit is more distinctly ridged, subpentagonal ; 

 the vittse are most minute, W. & A. say several in each furrow, but they ap- 

 pear generally 1 or 0. The petals are hairy. Wight doubts whether his t. 567 

 (which is copied from Eoxburgh) is the Pimpinella ? involucrata, of "WY & A. Prodr. 

 369 ; but a reference to his Herbarium shows that it is ; the fruit varying somewhat 

 in size and a good deal in hairiness. The only scrap Wight got of C. stictocarpum 

 he arranged (without name) in Ptychotis. 



7. C. copticum, B4nk*4n Gen. PL i. 891 ; ultimate segments of all the 

 leaves linear, bracteoles 3-5 small linear, fruit muricate subhispid. Ammi 

 copticum, Boiss. FL Orient, ii. 891. Ligusticiun Ajawain, Fleming Cat. Ind. 

 Med. PL 25. L. Ajouan, Roxb. Hort. Beng. 21, FL Ind. ii. 91. Athamantha 

 Ajowan, Wall. Cat. 572. Ptychotis coptica, DC. Prodr. iv. 108. P. Ajowan, 

 DC. L c. 109 ; W. 8f A. Prodr. 368 ; Wight. Ic. t. 566. Bimium aromaticum, 

 Linn. Mant. 218. Seseli ammoides, Jacq. Hort. Vind. t, 52. Sison Ammi, 

 Jacq. Hort. Vind. t. 200. 



INDIA, extensively cultivated from the PUNJAB and BENGAL to the SOUTH DEC- 

 CAN. DISTBIB. W. Asia, S. Europe, N.-E. Africa. 



Minutely pubescent, or the stem and leaves glabrescent. Root fusiform. Stem 

 1-3 ft., erect, branched, leafy. Leaves 2-3-pinnate ; ultimate segments linear, often 

 | 1 in. Bracts several, linear, rarely 0, sometimes divided ; rays 412, ^-1^ in. ; 

 pedicels 6-16, ^^ in., more or less pubescent. Fruit ^ in., ovoid; carpels sub- 

 pentagonous, dorsally compressed, nearly plane on the inner face ; ridges usually 

 distinct; vittse solitary, small. The bracts are in the Indian Ajowan not rarely 

 divided, when it is undistinguishable from the West Asian C. copticum. Boissier 1. c. 

 maintains that the genus should be Ammi because the petals are destitute of a 

 transverse fold ; but W. & A. are correct in saying (Prodr. 368) that they are just 

 like those of other Carums. 



8. C. khasianum, C. B. Clarke ; lower leaves 3-partite pinnate or sub- 

 2-pinnate ultimate segments oblong crenate-serrate, fruit very nearly as in C. 

 copticum, but shorter. Ptychotis ? sp. Wall. Cat. 7218. Ptychotis sp. 9, Herb. 

 Ind. Or.H.f.Sf T. 



KHASIA MTS. ; alt. 3000-5000 ft., common, Wallich, &c. 



Pubescent throughout, or the 'lower part glabrescent. Root fusiform. Stem 2-4 ft., 



