620 INDIAN MEDICINAL PLANTS. 



palmately divided into spiimulose segments. Bracts 5-6, Iin., 

 linear, with a few spines on the margins, sometimes short 

 exterior spines alternating with them ; bracteoles linear, spinu- 

 lose, simple, exceeding the hovers ; a few (in the outermost 

 row but one) sometimes spinous, subtrifid. Calyx tube densely 

 scaly ; teeth lanceolate-subulate, spinescent. Fruit Jin. 



Use: — The root is considered nervine tonic, and aphrodisiac. 

 In Kandahar, the seeds are said to be officinal. 



The alkaline salt of the ashes recommended in haemorrhoids 

 (Honnigberger), 



568. Buplenrum falcatum, Linn, h.f.b J., ii. 676. 



Vern : — Kali Zewar ; Sipil (Pb.) 



Habitat : — Himalaya, from Kashmir to Bhotan and Khasia 

 Mountains. 



Glabrous herbs.. Stem l-4ft. erect, corymbose upwards. 

 Radical leaves, linear broader upwards, middle cauline linear, 

 acute, narrowed at the base, more or less amplexicaul. Bracts 

 usually in the Indian forms, sometimes a few scarcely Jin.'; 

 bracteoles 4-5, distinctly shorter than the fruiting umbellule, 

 narrowly lanceolate ; rays 5-8, ljin. ; pedicels 5-15, usually 

 distinct. Disk yellow or brownish, not prominent. Carpels 

 narrowly oblong, ridges not prominent ; furrows 3-vittate. 



Use : — They are reputed to have stimulant properties 

 (Watt). 



569, Apium graveolems, Linn ; h.f.b.l, ii. 679. 



Vern. :*- Ajmud, bori-ajmud karafs(H.j; Chanu, randhuni 

 (B.); Bori-ajamoda, or ajmud (Bomb.) ; Ajwankapute, budiaji 

 waie (Cutchj; Bhut-jhata (Pb.J. 



English name : — Celery. 



Habitat: — Base of the north-west Himalaya, and outlying 

 hills in the Punjab. 



Annual herbs, glabrous. Biennial, says C. B. Clarke. This 

 is the wild celery. (The garden celery of the European dinner- 

 table is a special cultivation). Stem l-8ft., erect, branched. 

 Radial leaves pinnate, with large deeply-lobed segments, cauline 



