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
Licence: Public Domain Mark
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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![MUKHUM SEEM. MUNJEET. sula of India where it grows wild, preferring poor soil near the sea. It is replaced in the Bellary district, C. by procera, which .is equally common and in Northern India by (J. Hamiltonii. (6470) MUD All BATIK. Akund. Bark of root of Calotropis gigantea.—Beng. Phar. (5471) MUDUD, pills of the size of a pep- per corn, made of chopped betel leaf and opium : and smoked in a small chilluni. — Herklols. (5472) MUEDA LUKREE. Wood of Tet- ranthera Roxburghii.—Reng. Phar. (5473) MUGlLIDiE, the Mullet Tribe, a family of Fishes of the order Ac.antkopterygii. This family may be distinguished by the follow- ing characters :—Body nearly cylindrical, cover- ed with large scales : dorsal' fins two in num- ber separated, the first with only four spinous rays ; the ventral fins have their origin a little behind the line ot the pectorals; branchiosteg- Diis rays, six. The head is somewhat depress- ed, and, like the body, is covered with large scales or polygonal plates ; the muzzle is very hort; the mouth is transverse, and when closer firms an angle, the lower jaw having an eini lenee in the middle, which fits into a corres' •onding hollow in the upper; teeth very mi iute ; pharyngeal bones much developed. There re three genera belonging to this family—Athe- ina, Mugil, and Tetragonurus. Atherina has the body rather elongated ; two orsal fins widely separated ; ventral fins placed ir behind the pectorals; sides with a broad mgitudinal silver band ; teeth minute ; branchi- stegous rays 6. Mugil has the body nearly cylindrical, avercd with large scales ; two dorsal fins idely separated, the rays of the first fin spin- js those of the second flexible ; ventral fins be- md the pectorals; middle of the under jaw ith an elevated angular point, and a corres- Jnt ‘fp groove in the upper; teeth small: •anchiostegous rays 6. Tetragonurus, so named from the project- g keels or ngcs on each side, near the ise ot Ul« caudal. There is only one spe- an inhabitant of the Mediterranean, about s black, and reputed to be poison- m!ll4/ MUGIL’ Mullet La*ge. A species mullet is very common in Tenasserim Lid is , on the tables of Europeans, by whom s highly esteemed Mr. Blyth, to Whom I it a specimen for the determination^ the spe- s, wrote that it was abundant in Calcutta, but o a spernes could never determine from ieriptions. —Mason. (5475) MUKIIUM SEEM. Douchos 0,.,. in so J f 1' Th“ “ * l«R» kind of ire’s sim 1 he same tlme as othm ; it re- 8 stiong Supp0rt to run over. The beans so ten- are dressed as French beans but are not der.—Riddell. (5476) MULBERRY. Morus Indica. (3477) MULLET FISH. Mugil cephalus. Maddava meen, Tam. I Bouta, Tbl. Arabie mutchie.. Duk. | Puihin, Hin Ain's Mat. Med. p. 155. (5478) MULLET, Mugil cepsalotus, Fal- lenciennes, large eyed. The Tenasserim seas have another mullet, equally valuable for the table with the last, and equally common in Calcutta, but distinguished among other things by its small head, smaller scales, and goggle eye3 which appear to be starting out of its head.— Mason. (5479) MULLET. Mugil subviridis, Fal- lenciennes, small. A small mullet is often found in great numbers in the river near Maulmain, which many of the Burmese regard as the young of the preceding, but it is a distinct species, of which Mr. Blyth wrote that he had never seen it before, but had “ made it out to be as above,” —Mason. (5480) MULLET. [MuGiLiDiE; Multus.] (5481) MULLUS, a genus of Fishes belonging to the group Acanthopterygii and the family Per- cidee. The species have the body thick oblong ; profile of the head approaching to a vertical line; scales large, deciduous ; two dorsal fins widelv separated, the rays of the first spinous, those of the second flexible; teeth on the lower jaw and palate only; two cirri at the symphysis of the ower jaw; branchiostegous rays 4. * There are ;wo species of this genus found in Europe, and both are inhabitants of the seas of Great Britain. (5482) MULMURACA, the Tamil name of a tree which grows to about twenty-four inches in diameter, and twenty feet in heig'ht. It is used by the natives for canoes, catamarans, and manv other purposes. It produces a fruit which, with the eaves of the tree, is used medicinally.—Edye Ceylon. ' (5483) MUM. A fermented liquor, brewed principally from the malt of wheat.—Faulkner. (5484) MUNDAREKAI, Tam. This article Ainslie had never seen. It grows in the ex- treme Southern parts of the Peninsula, and is eaten by the common people.—Ainslie, p. 241. (5485) MUNGEVENAH, the Tamil name of a Geylon tree which grows to thirty inches in diameter and eight feet long. It is*close in its grain and light. It is used for gun-stocks, poles of palanquins, sandals, &c. It produces a fruit which is of little use. It is on the fruit 0f this tree that the monkeys, pea-fowl, Ac. feed — tdye. Ceylon. (5486) MUNJEET, Indian Madder. Munjeet, Guz. & Hind. J241 ^ Munjlstha> or Indian madder root,](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28708921_0002_0045.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
