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The hakfms administer than as a nutritive tonic for render- 
ing the body fruitful (yoy! was) , and consider them to be 
deobstruent and expectorant; the roots are said to be diuretic. 
The author of the Makhzan, speaking of Békila, gives xéayos 
and several other synonyms for them, and fully describes the 
various uses to which they are put. 
“They must not be confounded with the «tapos deyumrios or 
Coptic bean, the seed of Nelumbium speciosum. 
Beans are rich in proteids and phosphoric acid, but contain 
only a small percentage of amylaceous and saccharine matter. 
The following table showing the percentage composition of 
beans is taken from Konig’s Nahrungs-mittel, and is a sum- 
-mary-of the results of 41 analyses of different cultivated varieties . 
of Vicia Fuba:— 
Maximum. Minimum.. Mean. 
Water eo 19°70 10°80 14°76 
Nitrogenous matter ..... - 29°86 17°41 24°27 
Fat co eo 1:12 1°61 
Nitrogenfreeextractive 53°40 44°39 49°01 
Cellulose 11-30 — 8:26 108 
Ash vi aeanevacion 4°72 1°72 3°26 
In dry substance. : 
‘Nitrogen. 5°37 3°27 4°56 
Carbo-hydrates ......... 62°65 52:08 57°43" 
CICER ARIETINUM, Linn, 
_ Fig.—Wight Ic, t. 20; Bot. Mag., t. 2274, Common 
‘Chickpea (Hng.), Chiche, Téte de belier (Fr.). 
Hab.—Unknown. Cultivated in warm climates. The 
~ geeds and acid exudation. 
Vernacular.—Chana (Hind., Guz. I Harbara, Chana (Mar. )» 
But (Beng.), Kadalai (Tam ), Kadal an.). 
fhe acid exudation, Siieiciks che (Hind.), Chana-amba 
: (Mar. ), Kadalai-kédi vei hi. Salen cate (Guz. S 
