Fmnieuhim.'] lxx. umbbllipbe^. (C.B. Clarke.) 695 



20. rOSKXCVXiirmC, Adems. 



Glabrous herbs, bienmal or perennial, tall. Leaees 2-3-4-pmnate, ultimate 

 •segments linear. Bracts 0; bracteoles 0, or few small linear. Cdlyx-teethO. 

 Petals yellow, emarginate. Fruit not laterally compressed, oblong; or ellipsoid ; 

 carpels ^terete, ridges prominent subequal, furrows l-vittate ; carpophore 2- 

 partite. Seed somewhat dorsally compressed^ inner face slightly concave. — 

 DiBiBiB. Species 3-4, from the Canaries to "Western Asia, 1 widely cultivated. 



1. P. vulgrare, GaeHn. Fruct. i. 105, t. 23, fig. 5 ; DC. Prodr. iv. 142 ; W. 

 % A. Prodr. 371 ; Wight Ic. t. 515 ; Kvrz in Jmm. As. Soc. 1877, pt. ii. 116. 

 F. officinale, Allion. ; Boiss. Fl. Orient, ii. 975. F. dulce, C. BaiA. ; DC. h e- 1 

 F. Panmorium, DC. I. c. ; Wight Ic. t. 570. Anethum Fceniculum, IMn. ; , 

 Boxh. Hart. Bem^. 22. A. Panmorium, Boxh. Hort. Beng. 22, Fl.Ind, ii. 94 ; 

 Fleming Cat. Ind. Med. PI. 6 ; Wcdl. Cat. 7211. Ozodia foeniculacea, W. Sf A. 

 Prodr. 375. 



Commonly cultivated thioughout India, alt. 0-6000 ft. ; often appearing wild.i — 

 IiSTEiB. Widely cultivated. 



The Indian examples have the ultimate' segments of the leaves very long ; the 

 form .F. piperitmm DO. ; Boiss. Fl. Orient, ii. 975 ; Beich. la. Fl. Germ. t. 1931 (with 

 short linear ultimate segments) has not been communicated from India. 



21. FRANCOS, Idndl. 



TaU, perennial herbs. Leaves 3-4r-pinnate. Umbels compound ; bracts and 

 .^acteoles many. Calyx-teeth 0. Petals emarginate, yeUow. Fruit oblong, 

 ^cbnunissure broad ; carpels ^-terete, dorsally compressed, inner face nearly 

 plane but the epicarp there thin, introflexed in a deep T-shaped groove; 

 epicarp spongy; primary ridges large, subequal or the lateral larger ;, vittse 

 small, numerous ; carpophore 2-partite. Seed dorsally compressed, inner face 

 slightly concave, with a deep narrow T-shaped groove. — Disieib. Species 25, 

 in the Mediterranean and West Asian regions. 



' 1. P. pabularia, lAndl. in Quart. Journ. Se. xix. (1824) 7 ; glabrous, 

 ultimate segments of the leaves ^-1 in. setaceous, fruit ridges undulate furrows 

 rough with corrugations. 2) C iVoi?-. i v. 239 ; Wall. PI. As. Bar. ii. 7, t.212. 

 Laserpitium sp. Wdl. in Trans. Agri. S/- Hort. Soc. Ind. i. 74r-82. 



Kashmib and Baitisthan, alt. 6000-11,000 ft., Falconer, Sk Dibteib. Cabul, 



Kashgar. 



Stemi-5 ft. ieo'ues 12-18 in., very compound. Umbels 6-18 in. diam., some- 

 times very compound. Bracts 4-8, | in., linear. Pedicels 18-25, ^in.-, whereof 

 4-8 may produce finiit. Fruit \-i in.; wings ^ in. broad; style-bases depressed; 

 styles short, early reflexed. Be^ ts~iS ™' diam. 



22. (SNANTKE, Lmn. 



' 'Herbs, growing in wet places ; root fibrous creeping or stoloniferous (in In- 

 dian species). Leaves 1-3-pinnate, ultimate segments large or linear or minute, 

 rarely reduced almost to sheaths. Umbels compound; bracts. 0-1 (in Indian 

 species); bracteoles several linear. Flowers white, often polygamous, males 

 sometimes radiant. Calyx-teeth small, acute. Petals emargmate. Fruit 



