The Useful Plants of India: With Notices of Their Chief Value in Commerce, Medicine, and the Arts |
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5-cleft acid acuminated acute Ainslie anthelmintic apex applied astringent axillary bark base BENG Bengal berries bitter boiled bracts branches bruised calyx capsule Circars colour Concans cordate corolla Coromandel cultivated decoction DESCRIPTION.-Annual DESCRIPTION.-Shrub DESCRIPTION.-Tree diuretic dried drupe eaten ECONOMIC USES.-The employed erect externally feet fevers fibres Flor flowers small forests fragrant fruit glabrous greenish grows hairy HIND India infusion juice lanceolate leaflets leaves alternate leaves opposite legumes Linn lobes Madras Malabar male MEDICAL USES.-The medicine mixed Mysore natives nearly Neilgherries numerous oblong obovate obtuse oval ovate pairs panicles panicles terminal pedicels peduncles Peninsula petals petioles Pharm pinnated plant powder Prod pubescent pulp Punj quantity racemes resin Rheede ripe root Roxb Roxburgh Royle rupees seeds segments sepals sessile shrub slightly smooth soil solitary species spikes stamens stem taste timber tonic Travancore USES.-A USES.-The wood Wight Icon yellow yields
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Page 309 - The root also of this lotus is fit for food, and is tolerably sweet ; and is round, and of the size of an apple. There are also other lilies, like roses, that grow in the river, the fruit of which is contained in a separate pod, that springs up from the root in form very like a wasp's nest ; in this there are many berries fit to be eaten, of the size of an olive stone, and they are eaten both fresh and dried.
Page 96 - They have canes of the length, of fifteen paces, such as have been already described, which they split, in their whole length, into very thin pieces, and these, by twisting them together, they form into ropes three hundred paces long.
Page 82 - ... in his left hand, passes the thumb of his right hand quickly along the inner side, by which operation the outer bark is completely separated from the fibre, and the riband of fibre is then thoroughly cleaned by two or three scrapings with a small knife : this completes the operation with some loss ; however, say...
Page 366 - bricks,' as they are technically called, are then placed alternately with plates of sheet iron, in the ordinary screw or hydraulic press. The oil thus procured is received in clean tin pans, and water in the proportion of a pint to a gallon of oil being added, the whole is boiled until the water has evaporated ; the mucilage will be found to have subsided and encrusted the bottom of the pan, whilst the albumen, solidified by the heat, forms a white layer between the oil and the water. Great care...
Page 255 - They procure it from a certain herb, which is taken up by the roots and put into tubs of water, where it is suffered to remain till it rots; when they press out the juice. This, upon being exposed to the sun, and evaporated, leaves a kind of paste, which is cut into small pieces of the form in which we see it.
Page 328 - The sets of people are so arranged that each plant is bled all over once every three or four days, the bleedings being three or four times repeated on each plant. This operation always begins to be performed about three or four o'clock in the afternoon, the hottest part of the day. The juice appears almost immediately on the wound being inflicted, in the shape of a thick gummy milk, which is soon thickly covered with a brown pellicle.
Page 167 - Experience, as well as analogy, proves these seeds to be highly nourishing, and •well deserving of a more extensive culture than is bestowed on them at present. The powder of the toasted seeds mixed with sugar is said to be a powerful diuretic, and serviceable in promoting the passage of sand or gravel.
Page 213 - The bended twigs take root, and daughters grow About the mother tree, a pillared shade, High over-arched, with echoing walks between...
Page 390 - The method sometimes adopted is that of throwing the fresh seeds, without any cleansing process, into the common mill, and expressing in the usual way. The oil thus becomes mixed with a large portion of the colouring matter of the epidermis of the seed, and is neither so pleasant to the eye nor so agreeable to the taste as that obtained by first repeatedly washing the seeds in cold water, or by boiling them for a short time, until the whole of the reddish-: brown colouring matter is removed and the...
Page 65 - Malays make wonderfully light scaling-ladders, which can be conveyed with facility where heavier machines could not be transported. Bruised and crushed in water, the leaves and stems form Chinese paper, the finer qualities of which are only improved by a mixture of raw cotton and by more careful pounding. The leaves of a small species are the material used by the Chinese for the lining of their tea-chests. Cut into lengths and the partitions knocked out, they form durable water-pipes, or by a little...