632 INDIAN MEDICINAL PLANTS. 



2-3in., stout ; bracteoles oblong, obtuse. Pedicels 10-11, i-fin. 

 Petals yellow or whitish-yellow. Ovary glabrous. Fruit nar- 

 rowed to the base, and not there emarginate, nearly as broad as 

 long, i-J-in. long ; Dorsal and intermediate ridges triangular, 

 small, obtuse, lateral narrowly winged ; dorsal furrows 1-vittate, 

 lateral 2-1-vittate. Vittas nearly as long as the fruit or the 

 abbreviated, commissural 4 abbreviated. Seed much broader 

 than thick. 



The specimens examined for the plate, figured in this work, is drawn for 

 the first time by me for this work from nature, after examining hundreds of 

 plants from the Matheran Hill, in the Colaba District, and supplied bj the 

 Hospital Assistant Surgeon in charge, Matheran Dispensary (K. R. Kirtikar). 



Use : — It was considerd by the ancients as carminative, 

 stimulant and tonic (Watt). 



The fruit is used in curries in Bombay as a flavouring agent, 

 but some consider it mawkish. K. R. K. 



583. Coriandrim sativum, Linn, h.f.b.l, ii. 



717 ; Roxb. 272. 



Sa7is : — Dhanyaka. 



Vern. : — Dhania (EL and B.) ; Kotamalli (Tarn.); Dhan 

 yabu (Tel.) ; Kothmir, Dhanu (Bomb.) ; Dhanu (Sind.) ; Ko- 

 tambari, havija (Kan.). 



Habitat : — Cultivated throughout India. 



An annual herb, branched, glabrous. Leaves decompound ; 

 ultimate segment of the lower leaves ovate or lanceolate, of the 

 upper linear. Umbels compound, rays few ; bracts 0, or small, 

 linear ; bracteoles few, filiform. Calyx-teeth small, acute, often 

 unequal. Petals obovate, emarginate, white or purplish, of the 

 outer flowers unequal, often radiant. Fruit sub-globose ; ridges 

 not prominent, dorsal primary and adjacent secondary strong- 

 est, lateral primary, and secondary obscure ; vittae obscure, 

 solitary, under the secondary ridges ; carpels slightly concave 

 on the inner face, commissure distinctly 2-vittate ; carpophore 

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

 thick. 



