718 LXX. UMBELLIFEKJE. (C, B. Clarke.) [Cuminum, 



Petals oblong or obovate, emarginate, white, often unequal. Fruit cylindric, 

 tip narrowed ; primary ridges filiform, distinct ; secondary usually hispidulous ; 

 vittae large, solitary under each secondary ridge; carpophore 2-partite or 2-fid. 

 Seed somewhat dorsally compressed, convexo-concave. 



1. C. Cyminum, Linn. ; DC, Prodr. iv. 201 ; Roxb. Hort. Beng. 21, Fl. 

 Ind. ii. 92 ; Wall. Cat. 7213 ; Wight III. t. 117, fig. 6 ; W. $ A. Prodr. 372 ; 

 Boiss. Fl. Orient, ii. 1080. 



PUNJAB PLAIN, DECCAN, &c., cultivated. DISTRIB. Widely cultivated. 



35. DAUCUS, Linn. 



Annual or biennial herbs, usually hispid. Leaves 2-4-pinnate, ultimate 

 segments narrow or small. Umbels compound, rays usually many; bracts 

 generally very many, pinnate; bracteoles many, 3-fid entire or 0. Calyx-teeth 

 small, or obsolete. Petals obovate, emarginate, white, outer often radiant. 

 Fruit elliptic, terete or somewhat dorsally compressed ; ridges all prominent, 

 all or secondary only bristly, lateral primary little developed, lateral secondary 

 usually the widest almost* in the plane of the commissure ; vittae solitary, 

 under the secondary ridges; carpophore undivided or 2-fid. Seed ^-terete, 

 dorsally subcompressed, inner face plane. DISTRIB. Species 20, mostly Medi- 

 terranean and temperate Asiatic ; 2 N. American, 1 Australian. 



1. D. Carota, Linn.; DC. Prodr. iv. 211; hispid, leaves 2-3-pmnate, 

 pinnae pinnatifid segments narrow-lanceolate, outer rays connivent in fruit, 

 bristles of the secondary ridges as broad as the fruit, of primary shorter or 0. 

 Roxb. Hort. Beng. 21, Fl. Ind. ii. 90; Wall. Cat. 7214; W. $ A. Prodr. 374; 

 Wight III t. 117, jig. 7 ; Boiss. Fl. Orient, ii. 1076. 



KASHMIR and the WESTERN HIMALAYA, alt. 5000-9000 ft.; cultivated elsewhere 

 in India. DISTRIB. Of the genus. 



Stem 1-4 (in the Himalaya often 6) ft. Bracteoles many, 3-fid and simple. Fruit 

 yL in. ; bristles on the secondary ridges glistening white, connate at the base only, of 

 the primary ridges small or sessile, subglochidiate : carpophore undivided. The 

 carrot. 



36. CAUCALIS, Linn. 



Annual herbs, scabrid or hispid. Leaves 2-4-pinnate. Umbels compound, 

 rays few (in Indian species); bracts 0, or linear, inconspicuous; bracteoles 

 usually several, linear or oblong, membranous. Calyx-teeth small, acute, or 

 obsolete. Petals obovate, emarginate, white or purplish, outer often radiant. 

 Fruit elliptic or oblong, terete, subcompressed laterally, constricted at the com- 

 missure ; primary and secondary ridges prominent or not, with 1 or 3 rows of 

 bristles or tubercles ; vittae solitary, under the secondary ridges ; carpophore 

 undivided or 2-fid. Seed ^-terete, deeply grooved on the inner face. DISTRIB. 

 Species 18, principally in ,the temperate Old World. 



1. C. Anthriscus, Scop. ; Don Prodr. 183 ; bracts 1-5 - in. linear, 

 fruit in., primary and secondary ridges equally bristly not prominent. 0. 

 elata, Wall. Cat. 564 ; Don Prodr. 183. Tordylium Anthriscus, Linn. Torilis 

 Anthriscus, Gmel ; DC. Prodr. iv. 218; W. $ A. Prodr. 374; Boiss. Fl. 

 Orient, ii. 1081. T. japonica and elata, DC. Prodr. iv. 219, 220. 



