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INDIAN MEDICINAL PLANTS. 
A 2-4ft. erect, branched herb witli leaves nearly glabrous or 
pilose. Lower cauline leaves 3-partite or twice or thrice 
3-partite, ultimate segments of the lower leaves often 1-2 
by serrate, of the upper narrower sometimes linear. 
Bracts 0 ; rays 6-12, l-2in., glabrous or nearly so ; bracteoles 
1-2, |in., often 0; pedicels 6-10, T VJin. Fruit 2 ViV n - ! 
carpels ellipsoid, almost globose, ridges slender, rarely white 
and conspicuous ; disc obsolete; carpophore 2-fid, sometimes 
deeply. Fruit didymous broader than long. Seed nearly terete, 
not concave on the inner face. 
Use: — Root is used in fever (J. J. Wood’s Plants of Chutia 
Nagpur, p. 107 ). 
575. Ses eli indicum, W. and A., h.f.b.i., ii. 693. 
Syn. : — Ligusticum difiusum, Roxb. 271. 
Sans. : — Vana yamani. 
Vern. : — Banjowan (B.) ; Kirminji-ajvin (Mar.). 
Habitat : — Plains of India, from the foot of the Siwaliks to 
Assam and Coromandel ; frequent in Central Bengal. 
An annual herb, erect or diffuse, 4-12in., often much 
branched. Leaves all similarly cut, upper with linear segments, 
lower 2-pinnate, secondary pinnae ovate, lobed, pubescent. Bracts 
4-5, |in., narrowly lanceolate, caudate, pubescent. Calyx-teeth 0; 
rays 8-16, £-lin., bracteoles like the bracts, but rather smaller ; 
pedicels 8-1 6, -g-in. Flowers white or pinkish. Fruit sub-globose, 
ridges thick, often pale yellow, glabrous or hispid, hairs 
often clubbed or sub-stellate at the apex ; carpels \ terete, vittae 
distinct ; carpophore entire, disk prominent, styles spreading 
(C. B. Clarke). 
Use : — The seed is used as a medicine for cattle. It is also 
said to be carminative (Watt). 
I have found the seeds to act as a good anthelmintic for 
round worms, and they are also stimulant, carminative, and 
stomachic. — Dose of simple powder, from 20 grains to a drachm 
(Moodeen Sheriff). 
