Go«>:anthe.] UMBELLIFEB^. 3^5 



pinnate; hracteohs ^qvqvoX or many. Calyx-teeth minute, lanceo-" 

 late or linear, or 0. Fetals emarginate, white. Fruit oblong, 

 ovate or circular, not laterally compressed, broadest at the commissure ; 

 carpels |-te! ete, inner face plane ; ridges stronj>-, obtuse or subacute, 

 lateral hardly larger than the dorsal ; vittce in each furrow solitary, 

 usually prominent ; carj)ophore 2-partite, 2-fi.d or entire ; disk not 

 prominent on the fruit —Species about 40, chiefly in theN. Temp, zone 

 of the old world. 



S. indicum, W Sf A. Prod. 371 ;F.B. I. ii, 693 ; Watt E-D. Ligus-- 

 ticum diffusum, Boxb. ; Fl. Ind. ii, 92. 



An erect or diffuse annual, 4-12 in. high. Lower leaves 2-pinnate, 

 secondary pinnae ovate, lobed, liispidly pubescent. Bracts 4-5, iin. 

 narrowly lanceolate, caudate, pubescent ; hracteoles similar, but smaller. 

 F otvers white or pink. Calyx-teeth 0. Fruit -^-^^ in., sab-globose, 

 glabrous or hispid ; rid.ges thick, often pale-yellow ; carpels ^-terete, vittai 

 distinct, carpophore entire, dish prominent, styles spreading. 



Snb-Himalayan tracts from Dehra Dun to Gorakhpur, also in Bundel- 

 khand. Disteib. Assam, Central Bengal and Coromandel Coast. 

 The carminative fruits are sometimes used as a medicine for cattle. 



7. (ENANTHE, Linn. ; Fl. Brit. Ind. ii, 695. 



Herbs, gi'owing in wet x^laces. Steins creeping or stolon if erous> 

 (in Indian species). Leaves 1-3-pinnate, ultimate segments large or 

 linear or minute, rarely reduced almost to sheaths. Umbels com.- 

 pound ; bracts <'-! (in Indian species) ; bracteoies several, linear. 

 Flowers white often polygamous, males sometimes radiant. Calijx- 

 teeth small, acute. Petals emarginate. Fruit glabrous, ellipsoid, 

 longer than broad, or globose, nearly terete, commissure broad ; 

 car'pels |- terete, dorsally compressed, inner face plane; lateral 

 primary ridges large, triangular, corky ; dorsal and intermediate 

 primary ridges much smaller, sometimes obsolete, or all subequal ; 

 furrows 1-vittate ; carpophore ; disk usually not prominent. Seed 

 terete or dorsally eompiessed, inner lace plane. -Species about 30, 

 found in the N. Hemisphere and in S.Africa. 



CE. stolonifera. Wall. ; F. B. I. ii, 696. Phelandrium stoloniferum, 

 Roxh.; Fl. Ind. ii, 93. Dasyloma latifolium, Liiidl. in Royle III. 232. 



A stoloniferous herb, glabrous or nearly so. Stems 2-4 ft., decumbent , 

 often floating, rooting freely from many of the lower nodes. Leaves 

 1-2-pinnate, or 8-partite ; secondary pinnae lanceolate or rhomboid- 

 lanceolate, serrate or lobed ; ultimate segments 1-2 in., those of 

 the Tipper leaves never linear. Peduncles usually elongate. Rays 

 stout. 'Carpels ^-in., subquadrate-ellipsoid, scarcely longer than broad ; 



