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maids, Cat's-foot, Ale-hoof, and Tun-hoof. In olden times, it was 

 put into ale, instead of hops, and was also used to clear ale. The 

 juice of the leaves, tunned up in ale, was thought to cure the 

 jaundice and other complaints. 



Jacinth. — See Hyacinth. 



Jack-by-the-Hedge. — See Erysimum. 



Jack-of-the-Buttery. — See Stonecrop. 



JACOB'S LADDER. — The Polemonium cceyuleum, from its 

 leaflets being arranged in successive pairs. 



JAMBU. — The Jambu [Eugenia Jatnbos) is included among 

 the great Indian cosmogonic trees. It is called, says Prof. De 

 Gubernatis, the Fruit of Kings, on account of the great size of its 

 fruit. According to the Vishnu purdna, the continent Jambudvipa 

 took its name from the tree Jambu. The fruits of this tree are in 

 point of facTt very large, but the fruits of the Indian mythological 

 Jambu attain to the size of an elephant ; when they have ripened 

 they fall from the mountain, and the juice which exudes feeds the 

 river Jambu, whose waters are consequently richly endowed with 

 salutary properties, and can neither be tainted nor defiled. We 

 \ea.xnirorv\\.he.Dirgh(lgatna-Siitra, that the four cardinal points were not 

 only represented by the four elephants which sustained the world, 

 but by four trees of colossal bulk and grandeur. These four trees 

 were the Ghanta, the Kadamba, the Ambala, and the Jambu. The 

 Jambu sprang, it is said, from the south of the mountain Meru, of 

 which the summit was believed to represent the zenith. In the 

 cosmogonic forest of the Himalaya towers the stupendous bulk of 

 the Jambu, and from its roots four great rivers, whose waters are 

 inexhaustible, take their source. It bears during the entire kalpa 

 of the renovation an immortal fruit, like unto gold, great as the 

 vase called Mahdkala. This fruit falls into the rivers, and its pips 

 produce the golden seed which is carried away to the sea, and 

 which is sometimes washed up again, and to be found on its shores. 

 This gold is of incalculable value, and has not its equal in the world 



for purity. It appears, according to the Sapta^ataka of Hala, that 



Indian lovers are fond of secreting themselves beneath the leaves 

 oi the Eugenia Jambos, and that the young Indian bride becomes 

 sad with jealousy when she sees her young husband approaching, 

 with his ears decked with the leaves of the Jambu. 



JASMINE.— Perfumes and flowers play an important part in 

 the poetry of India, and the Jasmine, which Hindu poets call the 

 " IMoonligfit of the Grove," has furnished them with countless 

 images. Thus, in Anvdr-i-Suhaili (translated by E. B. Eastwick), 

 we read of a damsel entering the king's chamber, whose face 

 charms like a fresh Rosebud which the morning breeze has caused 



