COMPOSITA. 969 
GUIZOTIA ABYSSYNICA, Cass. 
Ill., t. 182; Bot. Mag., t. 1017. now ed 
fing.). : 
Hab.— Africa, cultivated in India. The seed and oil. 
Vernacular.—Ramtil, Kélétil (Hind., Beng., Mar., Guz.), 
si, Valesalu (Tel.), Uchellu (Zam.), Hutchu-ellu (Can.) 
History, Uses, &c,—This plant is the Nuk of the 
yssinians, and was first brought to the notice of Europeans 
a the British Resident at the Court of the Berar Raja, and 
wn broadcast, and ploughed in. It requires neither manure 
oY weeding, and is very exhaustive to the soil. It ripens in 
eight days. Then, having been for two or three days exposed 
to the sun, the’ seed is beaten out with a stick, and separated 
n fragments of the plant by a fan. Part of it is parched 
| made into sweetmeats with jaggery, but the greater part 
sold to the oil-makers for expression. This oil is much 
emed for culinary purposes, and is also used as a lamp oil, 
but is‘reckoned by the natives inferior to that of Sesamum. 
bout the same time it was noticed by Ainslie, who testi-- 
to its extensive cultivation on the coast. .(Mat. Ind., ii. 
.). Heyne notices its cultivation in. Bengal and calls it 
erinnua, 
y “eG of the tnblerand, of India sp 
ree months, when it is cut near the root and «stacked for 
(Tracts on India, p. 49.) The: plant ingaitivated: 
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