Flora Medica

!APIACEJE OR UMBELLIFEKJE.90. F. Panmorium DC. prodr. iv. 14-2. Anethum PanmoriRoxb. FL Ind. ii. 95. Various parts of India.Root white, nearly fusiform, and almost simple. Stem erect,branched from the base to the top, from 2 to 4 feet high the branches;erect, round and smooth, with a uniform, pale, glaucous tinge, and notstriated. Leaves supra-decompound, divisions tapering, smooth andfiliform, but by no means so numerous as in Fceniculum vulgare.Umbels terminal, rather concave, but not regular ;the convex partialumbels, of which there are generally from 10 to 20, standing on pedunclesof very unequal lengths. Flowers small, bright, deep yellow.Petals long, ovate, with their points rolled in. Stamens longer thanthe petals. Styles scarcely any. Fruit exactly as in Fceniculum vulgareand with the same taste. Used medicinally in India as a warmaromatic and carminative, in flatulent colic and dyspepsia.ATHAMANTA.Calyx 5-toothed. Petals obovate, emarginate or entire, witha very short inflexed unguiculate segment. Fruit tapering tothe neck, taper or a little compressed from the side. Half-fruitswith 5 filiform wingless equal ridges, the lateral of which are onthe edge. Channels each with 2-3 vittae. Perennials or biennials,often villous on the stems and fruit. Leaves triternate orpinnated segments cut or multifid. Involucre 1-or few-leaved;;involucels many-leaved. Flowers white.91. A. cretensis Linn. sp. pi. 352. DC. prodr. iv. 155.Jacq. fl. austr. t. 52. Fee hist. nat. ii. 203. In open,rough, woody, mountainous spotsin the middle and south ofEurope.Stem rather villous. Leaves pinnated ;the segments trifid in linearlobes; the lowest hardly higher than the others. Involucre 1-or fewleaved.Petals hairy at back. The fruits are aromatic with a warmagreeable flavour, and a smell like that of marjoram. They were usedin the preparation of Diaphoenix, Venice treacle, and compound syrupof wormwood. (Semina Dauci cretici Ojficin.)MEUM.Calyx obsolete. Petals entire, elliptical, acute at the baseand apex. Fruit nearly taper. Half-fruits with 5 prominentsharply keeled equal ridges, of which the laterals are marginal.Vittae several in each channel, from 6-8 on the commissure.Smooth perennials. Stem nearly simple, striated. Leaves supradecompoundor pinnated segments multifid ; ; lobes linearacute thin. Involucre hardly any involucels ; many-leaved.Flowers white or purple.92. M. athamanticum Jacq. austr. t. fl.303. Eng. Bot*t. 224-9. DC. prodr. iv. 162. Athamanta Meum Linn. sp.4-2