Afmm.l Lxx. ■dmbellipeeje. (0. B. Clarke.) 679 



tip inflexed. Fruit orHcular or elliptic, slightly longer than broad, laterally 

 suboompressed ; carpels semi-terete, subpentagonal, plane on the inner i'ace ; pri- 

 mary ridges distinct, filiform ; secondary ; furrows 1-vittate ; carpophore un- 

 divided, or shortly 2-fid. Seed semi-terete, dorsally suhcompressed. — ^Disieib. 

 Species 14, scattered throughout the world. 



The genus is hardly separable from Carum; the' one Indian species is easily 

 xeopenized by its short-pednnoled umbels opposite a leaf withoiit bracts or brac- 



1. A. g^raveolens, Imm.; BC. Prodr.iv. 101; radical leaves pinnate 

 with large deeply lohed segments, cauline 3-partite, segments once or twice 

 trifld coarsely toothed. WaU. Cat. 7212 ; W. Sf A. Prodr. 367 ; Soiss. Fl: 

 Orient, ii: 856. 



Base of the Koeth-west Himalaya, and outlying hills in the P-dnjab ; Falconer, 

 ■Jaequemont, &c.-7-I)istkib. Cabul, West Asia, Europe, North Africa. 



Biennial. Stem 1-8 ft., erect, branched. Feduncle 0-J in., leaf-opposed : rays of 

 the umbel 5-10, J-IJ in.; pedicels 6-16, ^-|- in. Fruit jjL_i in. ; ridges narrow,' 

 vittsB broad, occupying the whole breadth of the furrows. — Wild celery. 



9. CZCUTA, lAnn. 



Serbs, perennial, tall, glabrous. Leaves usually compound-pinnate. Umbels 

 compound, rays numerous. Bracts 0, or few ; bracteoles many, small. Flowers 

 white. Cdyx-teeth acute, minute. Petals obovate, emarginate. Frmt ovoid, 

 not longer than broad, subcompressed, distinctly narrowed at the commissure ; 

 carpels semi-terete, dorsally compressed, plane on the inner face ; primary 

 ridges broad, corky, obtuse ; furrows very narrow, 1-vittate ; carpophore 2-par- 

 tite. Seed semi-terete, dorsally compressed. — Disirib. Species 3, in the North 

 Temperate Zone. 



1. C. virosa, Linn. ; DC. Prodr. iv. 99 ; cauline leaves 2-3-pinnate, seg- 

 ments lanceolate serrate. Engl. Bot. t. 479; Reich. Ic. Fl. Crerm. t. 1853. 

 Cicutaria aquatica, Lamk. Diet. ii. 2, Bl. t. 195. 



Kashmib; Falconer; Srinuggur, alt. 5200 ft., C. B. Clarke. — Distkib. Through-' 

 out Europe and Temperate Asia ; in marshes and ditches. 



Stem 2-5 ft., striate, hollow. Leaflets 1-2 by -j-g in. Peduncles 2-3 in., termi- 

 Bal and leaf-opposed. Bracts ; bracteoles 2-8, J in., linear or narrowly lanceolate- 

 linear; rays often 16, lJ-2^ in. ; pedicels often 30-40, ^-^ in. Fruit ^ in. in 

 Indian examples (often i in. in European), lateral primary ridges commissural; 

 commissure obscurely constricted in some Indian examples. — Water hemlock. 



10. FXTURANTKOS, Viv. 



Perennial herbs, branched, somewhat rigid. Radical leaves 2-3-pinnate, 

 cauline much reduced. Umbels compound ; bracts and bracteoles lanceolate- 

 linear, small, or 0. Calyx-teeth obsolete. Petds white, ovate, emarginate. 

 Pru.it ovoid or oblong, more or less laterally compressed, usually hairy ; carpels 

 terete, subpentagonal; primary ridges distinct (when the hair is removed), 

 obtuse ; furrows 1-vittate ; carpophore 2-partite. — Disibib. Species 5 African, 

 2 Indian. 



