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;  Cultivation. oiis MOR .molcits 1 
The scot must beri rich; friable; arid so high as tiot'to be over- 
flowed during the rainy season, süch as the Beiesloor about Calcut- 
- tacall Danga. Itis often planted on land where sugar-cane grew the 
preceding year, and is deémed.a meliorating.crop. The soil must 
be well ploughed and cleared of weeds; &c..: -1t is then raised, in 
April and May, accerding»as the rains begin to fall, into ridges, nine 
or ten inches:high, and eighteensor twenty broad, with intervening 
trenches nine or ten inches broad; » The cuttings or sets, viz. small 
portions "ot the. MM; the ridges, at 
1 weight obttib/frbsli motbosa leas. ditis LE MET 
13. C. Amada. R. - 
Bulbs conic, and with the palmate tubers; inwardly pale-yellow. 
|" Leaves loig-petioled, broad-lanceolate, smooth Spikes scanty, few- 
' flowered. The whole plant wiiformly green; <4)’ 
Amada of the Bengalees; which means manko-ginger, the fresh 
root possessing the peeüliar smell ofa green “mango. It is used 
‘medicinally bj tlie natives. | 1 mies: native oP Berigal.- ‘Fo wering 
time the latter Part of the HINT 12 llodqueD eohado oS ssl 
Root consisting of horizontal, diuine: sessile (übers ünited tö the 
pide 2s fan Ovate-conic bulb of the same‘colour, which gives existence 
>and support to the leaves, and spike : "from its sides and base long 
- fleshy tibres issue, which penetrate deep into the'soil ; some of which 
‘end ur obiohz, paler? (bentlulous) tubers Stemsno other than the 
^ wnited sheaths of the leivess— Légvésradical, bifarious; petioled'above 
© “their shiaths, ventricosé, latceolar, cuspidate, sttiooth on both sides; 
length from six to eighteen inches, by three to six broad ; they decay 
about the end of October, and appear again with | the first showers of 
E dnce 3 ap The rr I divide into two. “portions : “the lower 
er dies dung part irom i ax, to ae a inches long y and the appe or 
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