Catalogue of the Economic Products of the Presidency of Bombay: Being a Catalogue of the Government Central Museum, Division 1., Raw Produce (vegetable)Printed at the Education Society's Press, 1862 - 377페이지 |
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Acacia Acacia Catechu according to Fraas according to Sprengel Africa America ancients Arab Arabia Areca Catechu Asia Avicenna Balsam bark bazars Bdellium Beegas Beng Bengal berry Bombay Burmah called Cassia Catechu Ceylon China Common Concans Condiments and Spices Coromandel Cultivated in India Cultivated widely Decandria Monogynia Deccan described Diadelphia Decandria Diccia Didynamia Gymnospermia Dioscorides Drugs East Indies Eastern Archipelago Egypt fecula flowers fruit,-used Fruits and Vegetables Greeks Gums and Resins Habitat herb Hexandria Himalayas Hind Hippocrates Increase Decrease India Java juice leaf Lindley Linn Malabar Malaya mentioned Monadelphia Myrobalans native Nepaul obtained Octandria Monogynia officinalis Olibanum Palm Pentandria Digynia Pentandria Monogynia Pers Persia plant Pliny Polyandria Monogynia Polygamia Monœcia probably referred Remarks Rheede root Royle sativa seeds Sindh South Europe species sugar Sweet synonymes Syst Theophrastus tinctoria Travancore tree Triandria Triandria Digynia Trigynia variety Vernacular Vulg West Indies Widely cultivated wood yields
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124 페이지 - Its flowers in their perfect state are among the loveliest objects in the vegetable world, and appear through a lens, like minute rubies and emeralds in constant motion from the least breath of air. It is the sweetest and most nutritious pasture for cattle ; and its usefulness, added to its beauty, induced the Hindoos in their earliest ages to believe that it was the mansion of a benevolent nymph.
92 페이지 - The Sanscrit name for tabascher is tvakkschird, bark-milk. Herodotus, Book xiv, ch. 194, writing of the Gyzantians, observes that in their country, " a vast deal of honey is made by bees ; very much more, however, by the skill of men.
263 페이지 - ... which is the impress of sand or gravel, shows that it was buried in a soft state ; and the bees, flies, gnats, and other insects which are sometimes found in it delicately preserved, seem to disprove a remote geologic antiquity. At the end of the rains it is usually carried ungarbled to Zanzibar. When garbled upon the coast it acquires an additional value of 1 dollar per frasilah.
299 페이지 - ... men portrayed upon the wall, the images of the Chaldeans portrayed with vermilion, girded with girdles upon their loins, exceeding in dyed attire upon their heads, all of them princes to look to, after the manner of the Babylonians of Chaldea, the land of their nativity...
167 페이지 - Their vines are of the vineyard of Sodom, and of the suburbs of Gomorrha. Their grapes are grapes of gall, and their clusters most bitter. 33. Their wine is the gall of dragons, and the venom of asps, which is incurable. 34. Are not these things stored up with me, and sealed up in my treasures?
178 페이지 - The leaf of this tree resembles in shape the wing of a bird, being three cubits in length and two in breadth. It puts forth its fruit from the bark, a fruit remarkable for the sweetness of its juice, a single one containing sufficient to satisfy four persons.
263 페이지 - The true or ripe copal, properly called sandarusi, is the produce of vast extinct forests, overthrown in former ages either by some violent action of the elements, or exuded from the roots of the tree by an abnormal action which exhausted and destroyed it. The gum buried at depths beyond atmospheric influence has, like amber and similar gum-resins, been...
33 페이지 - ... stream swelled so much, as soon as the sons of Temenus were safe across, that the horsemen found it impossible to follow. So the brothers escaped into another part of Macedonia, and took up their abode near the place called ' the Gardens of Midas, son of Gordias.
263 페이지 - The gum, buried at depths beyond atmospheric influence, has, like amber and similar gum-resins, been bitumenized in all its purity, the volatile principles being fixed by moisture and by the exclusion of external air. That it is the produce of a tree is proved by the discovery of pieces of gum embedded in a touchwood which crumbles under the fingers ; the
63 페이지 - The little canisters of Treeak-farook found in the bazars are wrapped in paper on which is printed in Persian, " The Theriakh of Andromachi, an invention of Theron the Presbyter. It is prepared, measured, and made public by me, John Baptist Sylvestrius, in the Rialto, by authority of the excellent Government Physicians of Ancient Righteousness, and of the Council of Apothecaries and learned Physicians, &c., &c.