Flora Indica, Or, Descriptions of Indian Plants, Band 1W. Thacker and Company, 1832 - 588 Seiten |
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Seite 279 - The seed is an article of diet with the Hindoos, particularly with those who inhabit the mountains and most barren parts of the country, for it is in such districts it is chiefly cultivated, being an unprofitable crop, and not sown whero others more beneficial will thrive.
Seite 304 - India, is a wholesome and nourishing grain, and forms there an article of diet chiefly of the lower classes. There are several varieties of it, which yield from 50 to 60 fold ; it delights in a light, tolerably dry, rich soil ; the same ground yields two crops between the first of the rains in June, July, and the end of January, in theCircars, but only one crop in the northern provinces.
Seite 589 - G. latifolia is a native of Hindustan. It has numerous spreading and drooping branches ; the young shoots angular and smooth. The general height of trees ten or twelve years old about 20 feet. Leaves alternate, petioled, round, cordate, and ovate, often slightly repand ; 3-nerved ; of a hard texture, smooth above, .scabrous and pale underneath ; from 3 to 7 or even 8 inches long, and rather less in breadth. Petioles nearly rounded and smooth. Panicles short, terminal, and...
Seite 617 - Every part of this shrub has a strong pungent taste. The roots when fresh cut smell particularly so. The fresh LEAVES are eaten raw for pains in the bowels ; the ripe berries are fully as pungent as black pepper, and with nearly the same kind of pungency; they are pickled by the Natives, and a most excellent one they make. The fresh BARK of the root is administered by the Telenga physicians for the cure of that sort of remittent, commonly called the hill, fever.
Seite 591 - The flowers are numerous, white, small ; a very large proportion of them are sterile, and they always want the style. The drupe is globular, smooth, the size of a cherry, sitting in the enlarged calyx ; when ripe, yellow ; the pulp is almost transparent, very tough, and viscid. The smell of the nut when cut is heavy and disagreeable ; the taste of the kernels like that of filberts. It is the true Sebesten of the European Materia Medica.
Seite 644 - ... bdellium. Burnt in the flame of a candle, it emits a smell like that of Cashew nuts when roasting. It softens in the mouth, and adheres to the teeth. Its taste is slightly bitter with some degree of pungency. It dissolves almost entirely in spirits, and in a great measure in water ; both solutions are milky with a small tinge of brown.
Seite 390 - The berries have a strong aromatic smell, and taste much like garden cresses. The bark of the root is remarkably acrid, bruised and applied to the skin soon raises blisters, for which purpose the natives often use it ; as a stimulant...
Seite 577 - ... containing the water, which is then left to settle ; in a very short time the impurities fall to the bottom, leaving the water clear, and so far as I have been able to learn perfectly wholesome.
Seite 33 - ... crop. The soil must be well ploughed and cleared of weeds, &c. It is then raised in April and May, according as the rains begin to fall, into ridges nine or ten inches high and eighteen or twenty broad, with intervening trenches nine or ten inches broad. The cuttings or sets, viz. small portions of the fresh root, are planted on the tops of the ridges at about eighteen inches or two feet asunder.
Seite 591 - Myxa is a native of many parts of India, Persia, Arabia, and Egypt. The trunk is generally crooked, from 8 to 12 feet high, and as thick or thicker than a man's body. The bark gray, cracked in various directions. Branches numerous, spreading, and bent in every possible direction, forming a dense shady head.