Cabum.] UMBELLIFEE^. 39S 



or emarginate. Fruit ovoid ellipsoid or oblong, laterally compressed 

 and move or less constricted at the commissure ; carpels terete, sub- 

 pentagonal, jlaiie on inner face, primary ridges slender, conspicuous 

 or obscm-e, lateral commissural, furrows 1-vittate ; carpophore 2fid 

 or pai-tite. — Species about 50, in Em-ope, Temp. Asia, S. Africa and 

 N. America. 



The genus, as here defined, includes Petroselinum, Bunium and Ptychotis^ 



Ultimate segments of lower leaves linear- 

 lanceolate, of upper linear. 



Fruit very small minutely pubescent 



or more or less hispidulous, ridges 



faint . . . . . 1. C. stictocarpum. 



Fruit iVi^ in- long) hispid, ridges 



distinct . . . . . , 2. C. Roofburgliianuvii 



Ultimate segments of all the leaves linear ; 

 fruit muricate, subhispid . . . * 8. C. copticum. 



1. C. stictocarpum, C. B, Clarice in F. B. I. ii, 631. 



Glabrous or minutely hairy. Hoot fusiform. Stem 1-3 ft., much branched'.- 

 Leoi-es 2-pinnate ; ultimate segments of lower leaves linear lanceoLte, 

 those of the upper ones often linear. Bracts 3-6, nearly linear ; bract:-' 'es 

 4-8, linear-lanceolate with scarious ciliate margins. Bays of umbel 

 6-12, equal: 'pedicels 8-20. Ovary minutely pubescent. Fruit T:ry 

 small, ovoid, minutely pubero punctate, ultimately shining, yeli^v ;• 

 rid,ges faint ; vittcB solitary small. 



Dehra Dun, abundant nsav Rajpur. Disteib. Mt. Abu in Rajput na,- 

 and in the Konkan. The fruit of the Dehra Dun plant is densely is- 

 pidulous, and should no doubt be referred tothevar. 7i.e&ecar^ a de- 

 scribed by Mr. Clake in F. B. I. I.e. It flowers and fruits in Oct. 



2. C. Roxburghianum, J^e^itTi,. ^ Hh. f. Gen. PI. i, 891; F.B.I ii,- 

 682; Field ^- Gard, Crops part Hi, 39 ; Watt E. D. Apium involucratiim,- 

 Roceh.; Fl. Ind. ii. 97. Pimpinella ? involucrata, W. Sf A. Prod, tng : 

 J). Sf G.Bomb. Fl. 106. Ptychotis involucrata, Boyle III. 229.— Ye m.. 

 AJTYiud, djmod. 



An annual about 3 ft. high. Eoot fusifcrm. Ultimate segments of lower 

 leaves rather broad, of the upper narrowly linear-lanceolate. Bracte^les 

 4-8, subulate, with scarious ciliate margins. Fruit ^•'xz in. long, his- 

 pid. 



Cultivated in native gardens for the sake of its aromatic fruits, wl ich 

 are used in flavouring curries, and also medicinally as a carminative 

 stimulant in dyspepsia. The leaves form an indifferent substitute for 

 parsley. It has not been met with in a wild state, and Mr. Clarke says 

 (F. B. I. I.e.) that it is probably a cultivated form of his G. stictocarpum, 

 which it exactly resembles except in regard to the fruit. This, he says,^ 



