FERILLA OCYMOIDES — PEUCEDANUM GRAVEOLENS — RUMEX VESICARIUS. 



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PER ILL A OCYMOIDES, Lbin.* 



Bhanjira- 



Natural order Labiatce. A coarse aromatic hairy herb with ovate toothed leaves and small 

 white flowers. 



This plant is abundant on the Himalaya, but chiefly near villages. Atkinson 

 states that it is cultivated for its leaves, and for the culinary oil expressed from its seeds. 

 I have been told also that the seeds are sometimes eaten raw as a medicine. 



PEUCEDANUM GRAVEOLENS, BenthJ 



[Vide Plate XC.] 



Dill; sowasoya (Hind.) ; shubit (Arab.) 



Natural order Umbelliferce. A smooth perennial herb 1-3 feet high. Leaves 2-3 pinnate, the 

 ultimate segments linear. Flowers yellow, in compound umbels. 



Occurs wild in tropical and subtropical India, also in the cornfields of South Europe 

 and in West Asia. It is said to have been grown by the Greeks and Romans. The 

 Indian cultivated form differs in having the fruit a little longer and more narrowly 

 winged. 



According to Atkinson it is cultivated as a cold weather crop in most of the dis- 

 tricts of these Provinces for its fruits, which form an important ingredient in curries. 

 The leaves are also cooked as a pot herb along with other vegetables. The fruit is used 

 medicinally by natives as a warm remedy ; also for colic, especially in horses. Dill 

 water, prepared from the fruit, is regarded as stimulant, carminative, and aromatic ; 

 and, like anise, is popularly supposed to promote the secretion of milk. 



RUMEX VESIOARIUS, LinnJ 



Bladder dock; chuko, chok, ehuka palang (Hind.) ; chukra (Sans.) 



* References :'— Fl. Br. Ind., IV., 646 ; Watt, Diet. Econom. Prod. ; Atkiuson, Econom. Prod. N.-W. Prov., V., 42. 

 Mentha perilloides, Roxb., Fl. Ind. (Clarke's Ed.), 460. 



t Fl. Br. Ind., II, 709 ; Watt, Diet. Econom. Prod. ; Atkinson, Econom. Prod. N.-W. Prov., V., 27 ; Him. Dist. I., 705, 

 745 ; Bent, and Trimen, Med. PL, 132 ; Pharmacogr., II., 128. Anethum graveolens, Linn., Boiss., Fl. Or., II., 1026 ; 

 Dymock, Veg. Mat. Med., 374. A Soma, Roxb. Hort. Beng., 22 ; Fl. Ind. (Clarke's Ed.), 272 ; Wight, Ic, t. 572 ; Fleming, 

 Cat. Ind. Med. PI., 5 ; Stewart, Punj. PL, 103. 



t Fl. Br. Ind , V., 61 ; Roxb., Fl. Ind., (Clarke's Ed.), 309 ; Atkinson, Econom. Prod. N.-W. Prov. V., 42 ; Pharmacogr, 

 Ind., III., 157 ; Dymock, Veg. Mat. Med., 658. 



