392 UMBELLIFER^. [Apium. 



Dehra Dun (King, DutMe). Distrib. Himalaya from Kashmir to the 

 Khasia Hills. The most frequent form of B, falcatum. The plant is 

 supposed to have stimulant properties, and the root is eaten. 



2. B. tenue, Buch.-Ham. ex Don Prod. 182 ; Boyle III. 228. F. B. 

 I. n, 677. 



Stem.-s 1-3 ft. Solitary, erect, much hranched upwards. Lower leaves linear, 

 upper linear-oblong, all obtuse and narrowed to the base. Umhels nume- 

 rous ; bracts 1-4, not prominent ; tracteoles 4-5, about as long as the 

 fruiting umbellules. Bays of umbel 3-8, slender pedicels very short. 

 Fruit broadly oblong, reddish-brown when ripe ; cartels terete, ridges 

 prominent ; vittce solitary in each furrow, often obscure. 



Dehra Dun and Siwalik range. Dis trie. Himalaya from Kashmir to 

 Sikkim, very common on the outer ranges of W. Him. 



3. APIUM, Linn. ; Fl. Brit. Ind. ii, 678. 



Pier OS, annual >'r perennial, glabrous. Leaves pinnate 3-partite or 

 componnd. Z^mheh compound, often leaf -opposed. Bracts and bracte- 

 oles (in the Indian species). FloiDers white. Calyjc-teeth obsolete. 

 Fetal.< ovate, acute, tip inflexed. Fruit orbicular or elliptic, slightly 

 longer than broad, laterally subcompressed ; carpels semiterete, sub* 

 pentagonal, plane on the inner face ; primary ridges distinct, filiform ; 

 secondary ; furrows 1-vittate Seed semiterete. — Species about 2 », 

 scattered throughout the world. 



A. graveolens, Linn. ; W. ^ A. Brad. 367 ; Boyle 111. 229 ; F. B. I. ii, 



679 ; Watt E. D.; DC. L'Orig. PI. Cult. 71 ; Watt. E. D.— Yern. Ajmud. 

 (Wild Celery). 



Biennial. Stems 1-8 ft., erect, branching. Fadical leaves pinnate, with 

 large deeply lobed segments, cauline 3-partite ; segments once or twice 

 trifid, coarsely toothed at the apex. Peduncle i in. or less, leaf -opposed. 

 Umbel-rays 5-10, 'pedicels 6-16. Fruit fo'Ta iii*5 ridges narrow, vittis 

 broad. 



Dehra Dun (Gamble), Banda (Edgeworth), in wet ground. Distrjb. 

 Punjab Hills, also in Afghanistan, W. Asia, Europe, N. Africa and Abys- 

 sinia. The root and seeds are used medicinally. The poisonous proper- 

 ties of the wild plant are removed by cultivation. The seed is eaten as 

 a spice by natives, and the blanched stems and leaf-stalks by Europeans, 

 A turnip-rooted variety is also eaten boiled as a vegetable. 



4. CARUM, Linn. ; Fl. Brit. Ind. ii, 680. 



Herbs, perennial or annual. Zeawe^ pinnate or decompound. Um- 

 bels compound ; bracts simple or divided, bracteoles simple. Flower t 

 white (in the Indian species), polygamous, sterile fioweis often with 

 enlaiged or irregular petals. Calyx-teeth, small or O. Petals retuse 



