Fwniculum.'] LXX. UMBELLIFER^. (C. B. Clarke.) 695 



20. FCENXCUXiUM, Adam. 



Glabrous herbs, biennial or perennial, tall. Leaves 2-3-4-pinnate, ultimate 

 segments linear. Bracts ; bracteoles 0, or few small linear. Calyx-teeth 0. 

 Petals yellow, emarginate. Fruit not laterally compressed, oblong or ellipsoid ; 

 carpels ^-terete, ridges prominent subequal, furrows 1-vittate ; carpophore 2- 

 partite. Seed somewhat dorsally compressed, inner face slightly concave. 

 DISTRIB. Species 3-4, from the Canaries to Western Asia, 1 widely cultivated. 



1. F. vulgare, Gaertn. Fruct. i. 105, t. 23, fig. 5 ; DC. Prodr. iv. 142 ; W. 

 $ A. Prodr. 371 ; Wight Ic. t. 615 ; Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. 1877, pt. ii. 115. 

 F. officinale, Allion. ; Boiss. Fl. Orient.'^.. 975. F. dulce, C. Bank. ; DC. I.e. ; 

 F. Panmorium, DC. 1. c. ; Wight Ic. t. 570. Anethum Foeniculum, Linn. ; 

 Roxb. Hart. Beng. 22. A. Panmorium, Roxb. Hort. Beng. 22, Fl. Ind. ii. 94 ; 

 Fleming Cat. Ind. Med. PL 6 ; Wall. Cat. 7211. Ozodia foeniculacea, W. $ A. 

 Prodr. 375. 



Commonly cultivated throughout India, alt. 0-6000 ft. ; often appearing wild. 

 DISTRIB. Widely cultivated. 



The Indian examples have the ultimate segments of the leaves very long ; the 

 form F. piperitum DC. ; Boiss. Fl. Orient, ii. 975 ; Reich. Ic. Fl. Germ. t. 1931 (with 

 short linear ultimate segments) has not been communicated from India. 



21. FRANCOS, Lindl. 



Tall, perennial herbs. Leaves 3-4-pinnate. Umbels compound ; bracts and 

 bracteoles many. Calyx-teeth 0. Petals emargiuate, yellow. Fruit oblong, 

 commissure broad ; carpels ^-terete, dorsally compressed, inner face nearly 

 plane but the epicarp there thin, introflexed in a deep T-shaped groove; 

 epicarp spongy; primary ridges large, subequal or the lateral larger; vittse 

 small, numerous ; carpophore 2-partite. Seed dorsally compressed, inner face 

 slightly concave, with a deep narrow T-shaped groove. DISTEXB. Species 25, 

 in the Mediterranean and West Asian regions. 



1. P. pabularia, Lindl. in Quart. Journ. Sc. xix. (1824) 7; glabrous, 

 ultimate segments of the leaves -1 in. setaceous, fruit ridges undulate furrows 

 rough with corrugations. DC. Prodr. iv. 239 ; Wall. PI. As. Rar. ii. 7, t. 212. 

 Laserpitium sp. Wall, in Trans. Agri. fy Hort. Soc. Ind. i. 74-82. 



KASHMIR and BALTISTHAN, alt. 6000-11,000 ft., Falconer, &c. DISTRIB. Cabul, 

 Kashgar. 



Stem 4-5 ft. Leaves 12-18 in., very compound. Umbels 6-18 in. diam., some- 

 times very compound. Bracts 4-8, f in., linear. Pedicels 15-25, g jin., whereof 

 4-8 may produce fruit. Fruit |-f in. ; wings in. broad ; style-bases depressed ; 

 styles short, early reflexed. Seed - in. diam. 



22. <ENANTHE, Linn. 



Herbs, growing in wet places ; root fibrous creeping or stoloniferous (in In- 

 dian species). Leaves 1-3-pinnate, ultimate segments large or linear or minute, 

 rarely reduced almost to sheaths. Umbels compound ; bracts 0-1 (in Indian 

 species) ; bracteoles several linear. Flowers white, often polygamous, males 

 sometimes radiant. Calyx-teeth small, acute. Petals emarginate. Fruit 



