A Dictionary of the Economic Products of India: Dacrydium to GordoniaSuperintendent of Government Print., 1890 - Botany, Economic |
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Ainslie Aitchison Andaman asafoetida Assam Atkinson Balfour bark Beddome BENG Bengal Bomb Bombay Brandis Burm Burma cardamoms carrot cattle Ceylon Ceylon Pl Chittagong Chutia Nagpur colour crop cultivated Cyclop datura Dist district Dolichos drug Duthie Dymock eat the leaves eaten elephant Elliot employed feet Ferula fibre Fish flowers fodder fruit Gamble gamboge Garjan Gazetteer genus Gibs given gum-resin Gutta-percha Habitat Habitat.-A large hills Himálaya HIND Hort India Indian Forester juice Kumaon Kurs Kurz LEPCHA Linn Lisboa Madras MALAY MEDICINE Moodeen Sheriff Mysore Nagpur natives NEPAL obtained Orissa Panjáb Pharm plant Provinces References.-Roxb Report resin root Roxb Roxburgh Royle Sanskrit SANTAL says seeds Shortt shrub species stems Stewart Sylhet Temperate region Thwaites Timb TIMBER tree tubers U. C. Dutt URIYA Vern Voigt Watt Wight wood writers yams yield
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Page 164 - It is found necessary, every 3 or 4 weeks, to cut off the old charred surfaces and burn it afresh ; in large healthy trees abounding in balsam, they even cut a second notch in some other part of the tree, and char it as the first. ' These operations are performed during the months of November, December, January and February. Should any of the trees appear sickly the following season, one or more years
Page 15 - The wheels of our ordnance carriages have ' never failed, however arduous or lengthened the service has been on which they have 'been employed, of which no more striking example can be furnished than the cam'paign in Afghanistan, about the most trying country in the world for wheels. Some ' of our batteries served throughout the campaign, went to...
Page 20 - The paper manufactured from this substance is extremely cheap and durable. It is said to be particularly calculated for cartridges, being strong, tough, not liable to crack or break however much bent or folded, proof against being moth-eaten, and not in the least subject to dampness from any change in the weather.
Page 477 - Seeds about ten, reniform, each inclosed in its own, proper, fleshy, succulent envelope, or aril, within which I always find a quantity of soft yellow resin. The fleshy part of the fruit which covers the seeds and their proper juicy envelope, or aril, is in large quantity, of a firm texture and of a very sharp, pleasant, acid taste. It is used by the nalives in their curries, and for acidulating water.
Page 325 - Ceylon, horn-shaped pieces about ^ an inch thick and 2 inches long, also occur. Dissolved in two parts of water, it affords an almost tasteless mucilage, of much greater viscosity than that of gum arabic made in the same proportions. The solution reddens litmus, and is precipitated like gum arabic by alcohol, oxalate of ammonium, alkaline silicates, perchloride of iron, but not by borax. Moreover, the solution of Feronia gum is precipitated by neutral acetate of lead or caustic baryta, but not by...
Page 31 - ... like a dead man, so that in his presence they may doe what they will, and take their pleasure with their friends, and the husband never know of it. In which sort he continueth foure and twentie...
Page 254 - Kusa," it became eternally consecrated; and the serpents greedily licking it up so lacerated their tongues with the sharp grass that they have ever since remained forked; but the boon of eternity was ensured to them by their thus partaking of the immortal fluid.
Page 402 - A rotl was sold in 1884 for about 13 piastres = 1 rupee 10 as. nearly. " ' Waras ' is sent to Arabia, chiefly to Yemen and Hadhramaut, where it is used as a dye, a cosmetic, and a specific against cold. In order to use it, a small portion of the powder is placed in one palm and moistened with water, the hands are then rubbed smartly together, producing a lather of a bright gamboge colour, which is applied as required.
Page 337 - It is not an article of general consumption in Afghanistan, though often prescribed as a warm remedy for cold diseases by the native physicians, who also use it as a vermifuge. The fresh leaves of the plant, which have the same peculiar odor a?
Page 274 - The inveterate coquero is known at the first glance. His unsteady gait, his yellow skin, his dim and sunken eyes encircled by a purple ring, his quivering lips, and his general apathy, all bear evidence of the baneful effects of the cocajuice when taken in excess.