VERNACULAR NAMES. 



Legammosffl 130 (Papilionacea 100, Ceesalpiniacea 20, 



Mimosaceae 12). 

 Cyperaceas 70. 

 Orchidaceae 60. 

 Composites 60. 

 Euphorbiaceae 50. 

 Acanthaceae 45. 

 Kubiaceas 45. 

 ScrophulariaceaB 40. 

 Filices 40. 

 Labiataa 35. 



Urticaceae 35 (including Ulmaceea and Moraceae). 

 Cucurbitaceae 30. 

 Scitamineae 20 (including Zingiberaceas, Maiantace® 



and Musaceae). 

 Verbennceae 20. 

 CommelinaceaB 17. 

 .Araceaa 15. 

 Liliaceae 11. 



VERNACULAR NAMES, AND NOTE ON THE 

 POPULATION. 



Chota Nagpur is said to be a corruption of Chutia 

 Nagpur from Chutia near Ranchi, the former seat of the 

 old Munda Rajahs and with the Santal Parganahs, it contains 

 the largest proportion of aboriginal races of any of the 

 administrative divisions of Bengal. These races belong chiefly 

 to the Kolarian and Dravidian stocks, though with regard to 

 this distinction, Sir H. Risley 1 states that it rests solely 

 upon linguistic peculiarities, and does not correspond to any 

 differences of physiological type. Nevertheless it is usually 

 possible for those who have lived among the aboriginal tribes 

 to distinguish the two stocks, and it is more convenient to follow 

 Hunter and Dalton and to treat them as distinct. 



1 Vide Sir H. H. Eisley in Tribes and Castes of Bongal. 



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