Plants of the Punjab. 



391 



Herbs, Erect, with Alternate Exstipulate Compound Leaves. 



Petals ununited. 



Vicatia millefolia, 



UMBELLIFERiE. 



E. B.I.ii. 671. 

 Kashmir, Tragbol. 

 11,400 ft. 

 (C. B. Clarke). 



Flowers, minute, in umbels. 



like the last species, but the ultimate segments are 

 much finer, thread-like, fruit much smaller, less grooved 

 on the inner face. 



Elseosticta meifolia, 



Umbellifer^e. 

 F.B.I.ii. 673. 

 The Plains. 



medium size, annual, smooth, sometimes unbranched, 

 root spindle-shaped ; leaves 2 or 3 pinnate, ultimate 

 segments linear ; flowers minute, on 6-12 stalks, ^ in. long, 

 in compound umbels with 5-11 rays, |-i.', in. long, bracts 

 5-6, lanceolate, bracteoles similar but smaller, calyx teeth 

 none, petals notched at the tip, ovate with a broad tip, 

 stamens 5, styles 2, short ; fruit broader than long, i^ by 

 ^ in., ridges none, oil glands minute, 2-1 in each furrow. 



Apium graveolens, 

 Wild celery, 



Ajmud, hhutjhaia. 

 Umbellifer^. 

 F. B. I. ii. 678. 

 Himalaya, 

 1-2,000 ft. 

 Salt Eange, 

 Choa Saidan Shah 

 (Douie). 

 Baluchistan 

 (Stocks). 



medium size to large, biennial ; leaves, radical, pinnate 

 with large deeply lobed segments, stem leaves deeply 

 divided into three, segments once or twice divided, coarse- 

 ly toothed at the apex ; flowers minute, white, on 6-16 

 stalks in compound umbels with 5-10 rays on a short leaf 

 opposed main stalk, calyx-teeth none, petals 6, ovate, short- 

 pointed, tip inflexed, stamens 5, styles 2; fruit -J^-^in., 

 orbicular, ridges distinct, narrow, vittae broad. This 

 plant is found in wet places, it is poisonous when 

 wild : the seed is used as a spice, apiol — a drug — is obtained 

 from this plant. The cultivated plant is eaten when 

 blanched, the leaves and seeds are used for flavouring 

 soups. 



Cicuta virosa, 

 Cowbane or water 

 hemlock, 



Umbellifer^. 

 F. B.I.ii.679. 

 Kashmir, Srinagar. 



medium size to large, perennial, stem hollow, streaked ; 

 leaves pinnate, stem leaves 2-3 pinnate, segments lanceo- 

 late, toothed, leaflets 1-2 by |-| in. ; flow( rs minute, white, 

 in compound umbels on main stalks, 2-3 in., terminal and 

 leaf opposed, rays up to 15, 1|-2| in., bracts none, bracte- 

 oles 2-8, 1 in., linear, calyx-teeth 5, short-pointed, minute, 

 petals 5, ovate with a broad notched tip, stamens 5, styles 

 2 ; fruit ^ in., ovoid, primary ridges broad, corky, blunt, 

 furrows very narrow, one oil gland, seeds half round, flat- 

 tened. This plant is poisonous. 



