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Brassica campestris, Linn. var. Sarson; Indian Colza, 



Sarson (India). 



Annual, 4 to 5 ft. high. India — a cold season crop. Oil from 

 the seed used in India for cooking. See " Indian Rape " for 

 imports of seed. 



1. 1894, pp. 96-9T. " Guzerat Rape " (B. campestris, var. 



glaum). 



! Brassica juncea, Hook. f. $ thorn*. (B. Besscriana, Andrez.) 



i Indian Mustard, Rai (India/. 



[ Annual, 3 to 6 ft. (Prain) 2\ to 10 ft. (Hep. Agric. lies. Inst. 



I Pusa, 1914-15, p. 41). India — a field crop, but on a smaller 



J scale than " Rape M (Watt); cultivated in Sarepta, Astrakhan — 



Volga River, and other parts of Southern Russia, Abyssinia, 



I Angola (Fl. Trop. Afr.). Oil from the seed used for food in 



India and Russia, the green plant for cattle fodder and young 

 leaves as a vegetable in India. It is probable that this mustard 

 is used with that of B. alba and B. nigra in preparations for 

 table use. 



Brassica Napus, Linn. var. dichotoma; Indian Rape, Tori 



(India), Summer Rape (Europe). 



Annual, 1 to 4 ft. India (39528T) — a field crop on the plains 



in the cold season, on the Himalayas in the spring (Watt); 

 Europe — a summer crop. Oil from the seed used as food and 

 green plant for cattle fodder in India. Oil in this country 

 classed with "Colza" — chief use for burning and lubricating, 

 but sometimes when refined for food; cake an important cattle 

 teed. It would seem that the seeds of this plant are often 

 crushed with those of B. juneea, the Indian Mustard. Some 

 samples of cake were recently submitted to Kew and found to 

 contain seed coats of both plants; the cake was strongly suspected 

 of having been the death of a number of cows, the cause obviously 

 being due to the high percentage of mustard seed residue in it 



similar trouble is referred to in Kew Bulletin, 1894, p. 96, at 

 which time it was stated tbe matter had often been investigated 

 at Kew, and the advice given that " Rape cake used for feeding 

 should be free from any seed containing Mustard oil." It is, 

 moreover, difficult if not impossible to separate the trade par- 

 ticulars of "Rape/ 5 "Mustard/' and "Colza" seed from 

 India, and the figures given must therefore refer more or less 

 to all three. The seed £oes under the names of "Brown Cawn- 

 pore," "Yellow Cawnporc," "Yellow Guzerat," " Ferozepore," 

 " Jamba " (see Ervra mtiva), &c, and the oil as "Brown East 

 Indian," Jamba/ 1 &c. A sample of so-called "Bombay 

 Brown Mustard" seed* submitted to Kew for identification was 

 found on cultivation to belong to the variety under considera- 

 tion, and samples of this and of B. juncea have been received 

 under the description of " Mustard seed from India." 



Brassica Napus, Linn. var. oleifera, European Rape. 



Annual or biennial. 2 to 4 ft. Russia (489048 seed), Germans 

 (14406 seed, 34473 oil), Netherlands (7845 seed, 20227 oil), 

 Belgium (8992 seed, 42201 oil), France (8198 oil), Great Britain, 





