Volume 2
Cyclopædia of India and of eastern and southern Asia, commercial, industrial and scientific : products of the mineral, vegetable and animal kingdoms, useful arts and manufactures / edited by Edward Balfour.
- Date:
- 1857
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Credit: Cyclopædia of India and of eastern and southern Asia, commercial, industrial and scientific : products of the mineral, vegetable and animal kingdoms, useful arts and manufactures / edited by Edward Balfour. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![MIMOSA $ FA A IT IV A. considered 1 >y l lie NaiLvtj Practitioners as a most valuable medicine, lu taste it somewhat resem- bles the soa[> nut, but is more acid, lews bitter, and has a singular pungency. Its qualities are said to be deobstruent and detergent; and 1 am in- clined to believe that k is also an expectoraut. It is commonly prescribed by them in cases of Jaun- dice and other biliary derangements, and is, be- sides, used by them like the soap nut, for washing the head. The small leaves of this prickly shrub have a pleasant acidity, and are frequently put into pepper water, when it is found necessary to keep the bowels open or work off bile. The j pod is usually prescribed in electuary, in doses of about the size of a small walnut, every morn- ing for three days.—Aiudies Mat. Med.'pages' 111 and 260. (5351) MIMOSA ADEN*ANT1I ERA. —The ■ UNARMED mimosa. IS at. Lajwanta species. (5352) MIMOSA ALBA.—The white Mi- mosa. (5353) MIMOSA PUDICA.—The Sensitive riant. Lajuk Hind. | Total vadic Tam. Common in gardens, and grows readily from seed, color of the flowers pale pink.—JaflYeg. M. pudicu has a prickly herbaceous stem, with the petioles and peduncles more or less beset with stiff hairs or bristles ; leaves somewhat digiiately pinnate, with 1 pinnae, each pinna bearing many pairs of linear leaflets, it is a native of Brazil, and is com- monly grown in gardens under the name of Sensitive Plant, the leaves falling on the slight- est touch. The roots of this plant and its allies emit a most offensive smell, resembling the odour of a sewer at the time of impending l ain. —Eng. Qyc. (5354) MIMOSA SAPONARIA. The le- gumes of M. saponaria, according to Boyle, form considerable article of commerce in India on ac- count of their saponaceous qualities. [Sensitive Plants.] (Lindley Vegctukht Kingdom-, Don, DicJdawydeoiis Plants.)—Eny. Gyc. (5355) MIMOSA PROCERA. Padda Patseroo, Tee. A Native of Coromandel where it grows to be one of their largest trees, lioxb.—Rhode M.S.S. (535(5) MIMOSA SCA ADEN'S.—The climb- ing Mimosa. —Riddell. Gela, Hind. | Cilia tiga, Tam. ' (5357) MIMOSA SENSIT1VA, the Sensitive Plant, has prickly stems and petioles ; leaflets ovate-acute, dotted, with adpressed pib beneath, but glabrous above. It, is a native of' Brazil. The flowers are rose-coloured and tetraudrous. The leaflets are sensitive to touch, 1/ut got so much so as the following species. Cdc- This vegetable wonder will grow in almost any situation and soil, raised easily from seeds.— MLMULUS CAB DINA US. Jeffrey. In Tenasseriui, where “ garden flowers grow wild,” near deserted habitations the pink globular heads of the sensitive plant may be often seen peeping through the grass. It is cultivated by the Burmese, and is quite naturalized.— Mason. (5358) MIMOSA XV LOG A BP A. Conda Tungcdoo, Tee. I Betada swamamki Vrik- Malei Avarei, Tam. | slia, Can. It is called Pingadoo in Pegu where it is used for knees, crooked timbers &c. in ship building. A large stately timber tree : a native of various parts of India. It blossoms during the hot sea- son, at which period it is nearly destitute of foli- age. The timber is remarkably strong and dur- able—TLoxb. lu the Yizagnpatam district this wood is used for common purposes, it generally is faulty in the centre, it is not a bad wood for furniture, is well adopted for handles of tools See. the average size at \ izagapatam is 12 inches in diameter and fifteen feet long ; on the Goduvery it is seldom obtained exceeding 8 inches in dia- meter and generally is faulty in the centre; it is used for posts.—Rhode M. S. S. (5350) M1MOSE.E, a sub-order of Plants be- longing to l lie natural order Leguniinosa-, whose flowers are regular, the stamens long, usually in- definite in number, and hypogymms, aud the flowers valvate in aestivation. They are in many cases polygamous, and their leaves are always more or less compound. The principal genus of the division is the Acacia. Mimosa itself consists of a considerable number of species many of which are remarkable for the irritability of their leaves, a curious property which lias al- ways rendered them objects ol interest. [Sensi- tive Plants.] The species commonly cultivated for the exhibition of this phenomenon is the Mi- mosa pndica, a South American annual. Among the useful plants belonging to Mimoaedr^ and not included in the genus Acacia, are the Raja sapi- da, I. dutch, I. biylohosa, and some others, -whose pods contain a sweet nutritious flecula, which renders them lit for food : and several kinds ot Prosopis, the astringeney of whose pods and bark renders them valuable for tanning purposes- In general, in the northern hemisphere, Mimoseet are confined to tropical countries, or to those which have a high summer heat : but in tlie sou- thern hemisphere they extend beyond such limits as in Van Diemen’s Land, where Acacias# cal led Wattles, are the commonest wood. [Lf.gu- MINOS-F..] (5330) MEMPHIS. Scrobhujeaiiinje. Mon- key flower.— Riddell. (53(51) Ml MULLS CARDINAL1S. These plants are well suited for flower borders, the co- lours are chiefly blue, red and yellow, easily giowti from seed in any garden soil, it takes its name from Mi mo, an ape, the seed bearing some resemblance to the face ol a monkey.—Riddell.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28708921_0002_0020.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
