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Arab, Urukus-sufr, siniibiitinaitine Bees) ee 
_ Pers. BA eee oe ORE a i ee 3 
_, Hulud, or Haludee. Mahraty,,. a aid | 
_ Is much. cultivated. about. Calcutta, and i in all arte. of 
Bengal. _.Kénig’s description published by Reizius, is so 
edi exact, and aed that ree nora left for me a 
‘The peer ns oy friable, and si so high as, not, to te 
peor vet: during, the, rainy season, such as the Bengalees 
t Calcutta ;call Danga., It is, often. planted on land 
where. Sugar-cane grew the preceding year, and is deemed.a . 
: oil of weeds, belaied It is see raised, in April. and May, ac- 
cording as the rains, begin, to. fall, into ridges, nine or ten 
inches high, and eighteen or twenty broad, with intervening - 
vane ning: or ten inches broad. The. aie qnepee 
Sat about: eighteen inphnaiors two shot ‘asunder. une 
acre santas fromnine hundred such sets, and yields in 
3 ry, about two thousand ie ie a 
aren gia 
13. C. Amada, Re )555' ‘er fads 
Bulbs conic, and with the ge por pnts og va 
yellow. Leaves long-petioled, broad. lanceolate, smooth, — 
Spikes: anneal FarecRlomyorod, The whole i monierely. 
Aaadaol, ibe Sampilena Bi gt means 
t tthe sides of an ovate-cnc bulb ofthe ame colour, wl ick 
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