718 Lxx.' TJMBBLLirBE^. (C. B. Clarke.) [Gummwni. 



Petals oMong or obovate, emarginate, -white, often unequal. Fniit cylindrie, 

 tip narrowed ; primary ridges filiform, distinct ; secondary usually hispidulous f 

 vittse large, solitary imder each secondary ridge ; carpophore 2-partite or 2-fld.. 

 Seed somewhat dorsally compressed, convexo-concave. 



1. C. Cyminum, Linn. ; DC. Prodr. iv. 201 ; Roxb. Hort. Beng. 21, FL 

 Ind. ii. 93 ; Wall. Cat. 7213 ; Wight Itt. t. 117, Jig. 6; W. 8/- A. Prodr. 372 ; 

 £oiss. Fl. Orient, ii. 1080. 



PimjAB PiAiN, Deccak, &c., cultivated. — Distbib. Widely cultivated. 



35. DATTCUS, lann. 



Ajmual or biennial herbs, usually hispid. Leaves 2-4-pinnate, ultimate 

 segments narrow or small. Umbels compound, rays usually many; bracts- 

 generally very many, pinnate ; bracteoles many, 3-fid entire or 0. Calyx-teeth 

 small, or obsolete. Petals obovate, emarginate, white, outer often radiant. 

 Fruit elliptic, terete or somewhat dorsally compressed ; ridges all prominent, 

 all or secondary only bristly, lateral primary litfle developed, lateral secondary 

 usually the widest almost in the plane of the commissure; vittse solitary, 

 under the secondary ridges; carpophore undivided or 2-fid. Seed ^-terete, 

 dorsally subcompressed, inner face plane. — Distkib. Species 20, mostly Medi- 

 terranean and temptrate Asiatic ; 2 N. American, 1 Australian. 



1. D. Carota, Linn.; DC. Prodr. iv. 211; hispid, leaves 2-3-pinnate, 

 pinnae pinnatifid segments narrow-lanceolate, outer rays connivent in fruit, 

 bristles of the secondary ridges as broad as the fruit, of primary shorter or 0. 

 Roxb. Hort. Beng. 21, Fl. Ind. ii. 90; Wall. Cat. 7214,; W. ^ A. Prodr. 374;. 

 Wight HI. t. 117, Jig. 7 ; Boiss. Fl. Orient, ii. 1076. 



Kashmik and the Wbstben Himalata, alt. 5000-9000 ft.; cultivated elsewhere 

 in India. — Distrib. Of the genus. 



Stem 1-4 (in the Himalaya often 6) ft. Bracteoles many, 3-fid and simple. Fmit 

 ^ in. ; bristles on the secondary ridges glistening wMte, connate at the base only, of 

 the primary ridges small or sessile, subglochiddate ; carpophore undivided. — The 

 carrot. 



36. CAVCAXiZS, Linn. 



Annual herbs, scabrid or hispid. Leaves 2-4-pinnate. Umbels compound,. 

 rays few (in Indian species); bracts 0, or linear, inconspicuous; bracteoles 

 usually several, linear or oblong, membranous. Calyx-teeth small, acute, or 

 obsolete. Petals obovate, emarginate, white or purplish, outer often radiant. 

 Fi-uit elliptic or oblong, terete, subcompressed laterally, constricted at the com- 

 missure ; primary and secondary ridges prominent or not, with 1 or 3 rows of 

 bristles or tubercles ; vittee solitary, under the secondary ridges ; carpophore 

 undivided or 2-fid. iSeed J-terete, deeply grooved on the "inner face. — ^Dibtbib^ 

 Species 18, principally in the temperate Old World. 



1. C. Antbriscus, &op. ; Don Prodr. 183 ; bracts 1-5 ^— i in. linear, 

 fruit J in., primary and secondary ridges equally bristly not prominent. 0. 

 elata, Wall. Cat. 564 ; Don Prodr. 183. Tordylium Antbriscus, Linn. Torilis 

 Antbriscus, Gmel; DC. Prodr. iv. 218; W. 8r A. P-odr. 374; Boiss. Fl, 

 Orient, ii. 1081. T. japonica and elata, DC. Prodr. iv. 219, 220. 



