Eeraoleum.'] lxx. umbbllifeeji. (C. B. Claifee.) 717 



21. H. Finda, Dalz. 8r Oibs. Bomb. Fl. 107 ; clothed with long weak 

 white flat hairs, lower leaves bipinnate, pinnae cuneate coarsely toothed, vittse 

 .2 in the lateral furrows, commissure 2-vittate. 



Bombay ; On Hursur and Hurry-chunder hill forts, Dahdl. 



Stem 1-lJ ft., erect, branched. Leaves mostly radical, long-petioled. Bracts 1-3, 

 broad-ovate, acute, foliaceouB ; rays 6-8, unequal ; braoteoles 3, like the bracts. 

 Flowers white, exterior radiant. — Not seen: the foregoing copied from DalzeU, I.e. 



34. ZOSXItXXA, Hoffm. 



A perennial lierh, pubescent or hirsute. Leaves 2-4-pinnate, segments 

 small. Umbels compound, rays numerous; bracts and bracteoles jisuaUy 

 many, small. Calyx-teeth linear, somewhat prominent. Petals obovate, emar- 

 ginate, white or yellowish, often unequal sometimes radiant. Fruit elliptic 

 or orbicular, dorsally compressed, complanate ; dorsal and intermediate ri^es 

 filiform or obscure, lateral hyaline, with a thick corky obtuse wing ; fuirows 

 with solitary large vittse : carpophore 2-partite. Seed 4-6 times broader than 

 "thick. 



1. Z. absinthifolia, DC. Prodr. iv. 195 ; Boiss. Fl. Orient, ii. 1037. 

 Z. orientalis, Hoffm. Oen. Umb. 148, t. 4. Z. radians, Boiss. 8f Hohen. in 

 Boiss. I. c. 1037. Heraeleum absinthifolium. Vent. Choix t. 7. H. tomentosum, 

 Smith, not of Sale. t 



SciNDB ; Stocks. Punjab ; base of Suleiman Mts., Edgeworth. — Distbib. Beloo- 

 chistan and Cabul to S.E. Europe. 



Stem 1-3 ft., pubescent or hirsute. Leaves 4-8 in., oblong-lanceolate, pubescent, 

 ultimate segments J-J in. narrowly lanceolate or linear. Bracts and bracteoles 

 variable, uBuaUy 5, J-J in., lanceolate; rays 6-16, 1-3 in., often stout; pedicels 

 8-20, J-J in. Frait | by J in., elliptic or somewhat obovate, variable in size and 

 ■shape, pubescent till fully ripe. 



34.* CORIANDRVM, lAnn. 



A herb, annual, branched, glabrous. Leaves decompound. Umbels com- 

 pound, rays few; bracts 0, or small linear; bracteoles few, filiform. Calyx- 

 teeth small, acute, often unequal. Petals obovate, emarg^te, white or puiy 

 plish, of the outer flowers unequal, oftfen radiant. Fruit subglobose ; ridges 

 not prominent, dorsal primary and adjacent secondary strongest, la,teral primary 

 and secondary obscure; vittae obscure, solitary, underthe secondary ridges; 

 •carpels slightly concave on the inner face, commissm-e distinctly 2-vittate ; car- 

 popTiore 2-partite. Seed convexo-concave, about thrice as broad as thick. 



1. C. sativum, lAnn. ; DC. P-odr. iv. 250 ; ultimate segments of the 

 lower leaves ovate or lanceolate of the upper linear. Boxb. Sort. Beng. 21, Fl. 

 hid. ii. 94; Wight III. t. 117, fig. 9, le. t. 616; Boiss. Fl. Orient, ii. 920. 

 Cumiaum Oyminum, Wall. Cat. 594. 



Throughout India ; cultivated.— Disteib. Widely cultivated. 



34.** CUmXIVTTia, Idnn. 



A slender, annual herb, glabrous except the fruit. Leaves twice or thrice 

 3-partite, ultimate segments filiform. Umbels compound, rays few; bracts 

 ■and bracteoles several, linear, rigid. Calyx-teeth small, subulate, unequal. 



