Catalogue of the vegetable production of the Presidency of Bombay : including a list of the drugs sold in bazars of western India / compiled by G.C.M. Birdwood.

Date:
1865
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Credit: Catalogue of the vegetable production of the Presidency of Bombay : including a list of the drugs sold in bazars of western India / compiled by G.C.M. Birdwood. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    N. O. 55. LINACEiE. FLAXWORTS. LInum USitatissimum. Linn. Common Flax. Linn. Syst. Pentandria Pentagynin. The fibre of the stalks,—Flax. Vernacular. See Drugs. Habitat. Egypt. Cultivated widely in Europe and India. Remarks. Although long cultivated for its oil seed, it is but during the last few years that any attempt has been made to utilize its fibre in India, and that only on any scale in the Punjab. Linen is first mentioned in Exodus ix. 31. It is mentioned also by Herodotus, Pliny, and many other writers of antiquity. N. O. 74. LEGUMINOSiE. LEGUMINOUS PLANTS. Crotalaria juncea. Linn. Striated-stalked Crotalaria. Linn. Syst. Diadelphia Decandrla. The fibre of the bark,—Sunn Hemp, Brown Hem]), Madras Hemp, Taag, Conkanee Hemp, Salsette or Bombay Hemp, Travancore Flax. Vernacular. Sana, Sans. Ghore-san, Meesta-pat, Beng. Sunn, Hind. Taag (Ambareel Graham), Bv. Shanamoo, Tel. Kama, Cey. Habitat. East Indies. Remarks. Probably referred to in the following passage of Mann (Book ii. page 44), The sacrifical thread of a Brahmin must be of cotton, so as to be put on over his head in three strings; that of a Cshatriya of Sana thread only ; that of a Vaisya of woollen thread. Sana here, how- ever, may mean Ambaree. The plant is first described by Van Rheede, of Western authorities. It is the Wuckoo-nar of Travancore. Jubbulpore Hemp is obtained from C. tenuifolia, Rox. The Dunchee fibre of Bengal is from the JEschynomene cannabina of Roxburgh. The Patwa, or Mawal fibre sent to the Great Exhibition, from Bhagulpore, was prepared from the bark of Bavhinia racemosa. N. O. 140. ASCLEPIADACEiE. ASCLEPIADS. Calotropis gigantea. R. Brown. Curled-flowered Calotropis. Linn. Sy»t. Pentandria Uigynia. The fibre of the Bark,—Yercum. Vernacular. See Drugs. Habitat. India.