€82 Lxx. UMBELLIFEEJ;. (C. B. Clarke.) [Carwn. 



^-^ in., ovoid, ultimately Bhining, yeUow, the dots microscopical, ridges faint; 

 carpels semi-terete ; vittse solitary, small. 



Vae. hebecarpa; fruit ^-^ i°- tispidnlous sometimes densely so and fuscous. 

 Ptychotis sp. 4. Herb. Ind. Or. H. f. ^ T. — Concan ; Stocks, Law. 



** JFhiit hispid or muricate (see also C. stictocarpum No. 4). 



6. C. Roxburg'hianum, Bemth. in Gen. PI. i. 891 ; ultimate segments 

 of the lower cauline leaves narrowly linear-lanceolate, bracteoles 4-8 linear-lan- 

 ceolate with scarious ciliate margins, fruit liispid. Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. 

 1877, pt. ii. 114. Apium involucratum, Boxb. Sort. Bmg. 22, Fl. Ind. ii. 97 ; 

 Fleming Cat. Ind. Med. PI. 6 ; Wight Ic. t. 567. PimpineUa ? involucrata, 

 W. ^ A. Prodr. 369 ; Wight Ic. t. 335 ; Dalz. ^ Oibs. Pomb. Fl. 106. Atha- 

 mantha Roxburghiana, Wall. Cat. 571. Ptychotis Roxburghiana, DC. Prodr. 

 iv. 109.— Phellandrium sp., Wcdl. Cat. 7217, Jide W. 8r A. 



Throughout India extensively cultivated from Hihboostan and Bkngai, to Srs- 

 OAFOBB and Ceti.on. Not known wild. 



ProhaWy a cultivated form of C. stictocarpum which it exactly resembles except 

 as to the fruit which is ^-^ in., the part used by man and therefore that which has 

 varied under cultivation. This shows a wide difference in size, colour, and hairiness 

 in the two forms, but there is a series of connecting links through the var. hebe- 

 carpa. In C. Boxbv/rghianwn, the fruit is more distinctly ridged, subpentagonal ; 

 the vittse are lofist minute, W. & A. say several in each furrow^ but they .ap- 

 pear generally 1 or 0. The petals are hairy Wight doubts whether his t. 567 



(which is copied from Roxburgh) is the PimpineUa ? invohtcrata of W. & A. Prodr. 

 369 ; but a reference to his Herbarium shows that it is ; the fruit varying somewhat 

 in size and a good deal in hairiness. The only scrap Wight got of C. stictocarpwm 

 he arranged (without name) in Ptychotis. 



7. C. copticum, Benth. in Gen. PI. i. 891 ; ultimate segments of all the 

 leaves linear, bracteoles 3-5 small linear, fruit muricate subMspid. Ammi 

 coptioum, Boiss. Fl. Orient, ii. 891. Ligusticum Ajawain, Fleming Cat. Ind. 

 Med. PI. 25. L. Ajouan, Roxh. Sort. Beng. 21, Fl. Ind. ii. 91. Athamantha 

 Ajowan, Wall. Cat. 572. Ptychotis coptica, DC. Prodr. iv. 108. P. Ajowan, 

 DC. I. c. 109 ; W.8f A. Prodr. 868 ; Wight. Ic. t. 566. Bunium aromaticum, 

 Linn. Mant. 218. Seseli ammoides, Jacq. Sort. Vind. t, 52. Sison Ammi, 

 Jacq. Sort. Vind. t. 200. 



India, extensively cultivated from the Punjab and Bengal to the South Dec- 

 can. — DisTEiB. W. Asia, S. Europe, N.-E. Africa. 



Minutely pubescent, or the stem and leaves glabrescent. Boot fusiform. Stem 

 1-3 ft., erect, branched, leafy. Leaves 2-3-pinnate ; ultimate segments linear, often 

 ^1 in. Bracts several, linear, rarely 0, sometimes divided ; rays 4-12, ^1^ in. ; 

 pedicels 6-16, i-^ in., more or less pubescent. Fruit i in., ovoid; carpels sub- 

 pentagonous, dorsally compressed, nearly plane on the inner face ; ridges usually 

 distinct; vittse solitary, small. — The bracts are in the Indian Ajowan not rarely 

 divided, when it is undistinguishable from the West Asian C. copticum. Boissier 1. e. 

 maintains that the genus should be Ammi because the petals are destitute of a 

 transverse fold ; but W. & A. are correct in saying (Prodr. 368) that they are just 

 like those of other Canims. 



8. C. liliaslanu.ni, C. B. Clarhe ; lower leaves 3-partite pinnate or sub- 

 2-pinnate ultimate segments oblong crenate-serrate, fruit very nearly as in C. 

 copticum, but shorter. — Ptychotis ? sp. Wall. Cat. 7218. Ptychotis sp. 9, Serb. 

 Ind. Or.S.f.Sr T. 



Khasia Mts. ; alt. 3000-5000 ft., common, WaUich, &c. 



Pubescent throughout, or the lower part glabrescent. Boot fusiform. Stem 2-4 ft., 



