536 BENGAL PLANTS. [Bupleurum. 
385. Bupleurum Linn. 
Glabrous herbs or shrubs; leaves entire. Flowers yellow ot 
lurid, pedicelled or subsessile; umbels compound ; bracts and 
bracteoles foliaceous or setaceous or obsolete. Sepals connate 
a calyx-tube with entire limb. Petals 5, obovate, emarginate, — 
Stamens 5. Carpels 2, connate in an inferior ovary ; styles short. 
Fruit subpentagonal; primary ridges distinct, sometimes almost 
winged, rarely obscure ; secondary 0, or obscure ; vittze 1-3 between 
the primary ridges, rarely 0 or more than three ; carpophore entire 
or 2-fid or 2-partite; disk depressed, rarely prominent in fruit. 
Seed terete, sometimes slightly grooved on the inner face. ‘ 
UPLEURUM MuCRoNATUM W. & A.; F. B. I. ii. 676. 
Chota Nagpur, Sirguja. 
A herb, 7 feet high, with yellow flowers. 
386. Carum Linn. 
Perennial or annual herbs; leaves pinnate or decompound. 
Flowers white, polygamous, the sterile flowers often with enl 
i ce 
Sepals connate in a calyx-tube with teeth small or 0. Pe en 
retuse or emarginate. Stamens 5. Carpels 2, connate. i ia 
ovoid, ellipsoid or oblong, laterally compressed and more oF 
e 
inner face flattened ; rimary ridges slender, conspicuous, 
obsolete, lateral commissural ; furrows 1-vittate ; carpophore ly 
or 2-partite. Seed terete, oes shea dorsally, flat or obseur 
channelled on the inner fac Q 
Leaves ternately cut; lobes of the lower stem-leaves ohne i 
hispid ; bracteoles 4-8, lanceolate, margins ciliate . .....-Rovbu" 
Leaves decompound ; ; lobes of all the leaves inoar pennecdss fruit 0 
culate ; bracteoles 35, Biel, linear vo... ccs. sanceeneteea ert coptis 
905. Carum Roxsurcutanom Benth.; F. B. I. ii 6523 E. . : 
C. 701. Apiwm sak ena F: i, ii.-97%. 
Cultivated in all the provi a 
A field-crop, of herbs 1-3 Ssok high. Beng. Chanu, ™"" 
Hind. Ajmud. eal. 
906. Carum copricum Benth.; F. B. I. ii. 682; E. D. © 
Ligusticwm Ajouan F. I. ii. 91. 
