626 INDIAN MEDICINAL, PLANTS. 



A 2-4ft. erect, branched herb with leaves nearly glabrous or 

 pilose. Lower cauline leaves 3-partite or twice or thrice 

 3-partite, ultimate segments of the lower leaves often 1-2 

 by i-Jin., serrate, of the upper narrower sometimes linear. 

 Bracts ; rays 6-12, l-2in., glabrous or nearly so ; bracteoles 

 1-2, -g-in., often ; pedicels 6-10, xa"i in - Fruit sViV 11 - 5 

 carpels ellipsoid, almost globose, ridges slender, rarely white 

 and conspicuous ; disc obsolete ; carpophore 2-fid, sometimes 

 deeply. Fruit didymous broader than long. Seed nearly terete, 

 not concave on the inner face. 



Use: — Root is used in fever (J. J. Wood's Plants of Chutia 

 Nagpur, p. 107). 



575. Seseli indieum, W. and A., h.f.b.l, ii. 693. 



Syn. : — Ligusticum diffusum, Roxb. 271. 



Sa?is. ; — Vana yamani. 



Vern. : — Banjowan (B.) ; Kirminji-ajvan (Mar.). 



Habitat : — Plains of India, from the foot of the Siwaliks to 

 Assam and Coromandel ; frequent in Central Bengal. 



An annual herb, erect or diffuse, 4-12in., often much 

 branched. Leaves all similarly cut, upper with linear segments, 

 lower 2-pinnate, secondary pinnas ovate, lobed, pubescent. Bracts 

 4-5, fin., narrowly lanceolate, caudate, pubescent. Calyx-teeth 0; 

 rays 8-16, ^-lin., bracteoles like the bracts, but rather smaller ; 

 pedicels 8-16, |in. Flowers white or pinkish. Fruit sub-globose, 

 ridges thick, often pale yellow, T Vxa^ n ) glabrous or hispid, hairs 

 often clubbed or sub-stellate at the apex ; carpels J terete, vittas 

 distinct ; carpophore entire, disk prominent, styles spreading 

 (C. B. Clarke). 



Use :— The seed is used as a medicine for cattle. It is also 

 said to be carminative (Watt). 



I have found the seeds to act as a good anthelmintic for 

 round worms, and they are also stimulant, carminative, and 

 stomachic. — Dose of simple powder, from 20 grains to a drachm 

 (Moodeen Sheriff). 



