THE ELEPHANT'S FOOT-OL 



ANACARDIUM 



OCCIDENTALS 

 Cashew-nut 

 AMOMUM SUBULATUM, Itn.rh. ; Fl. Br. Ind.,v\.,'240- t Madden, D.E.P., 



Soc. Trans., 1858, v., 120; King, Journ. Linn. Soc., 1880, i., 222-3. 

 xvii., '* : Duthie and Fuller, Field and Garden Crops, iii., 35 ; Pharmacog. Greater 

 I ml., iii., 4:(i ; S< n AMIXE^E. The Bengal or Nepal or winged Cardamom, Cardamom ' 

 ,..inftinif> also .ailed Greater Cardamom, bari-ilachi, elcho, mote-veldode, 

 kdttu-ydak-kdy, !<. Is most readily obtained in Calcutta but may be 

 had at Bombay, and perhaps in the bazars of most large towns. A 



aceous plant, native of Nepal. 

 The seeds yield a MEUICIM; in the shape of an agreeable stimulating oil with Medicine. 



: :ia tic camphoraceoug taste. It is considered carminative and stomachic, 

 I >ut this so-called Greater Cardamom is medicinally only a cheap substitute for 

 the common or Malabar Cardamom (Kirttnriu <./< n.i urn, of which there 

 .- Itnth a large and a small kind, see pp. 511-2). The seeds are also much used 

 in the preparation of SWEETMEATS owing to their cheapness (Rs. 12 per maund Sweetmeats, 

 of 37 A lb., Pharmacog. Ind., I.e.). The present Cardamom is also used in 

 the preparation of bhang-maesdla (see Cannabis sativa, p. 258, and Ind. Hemp 

 Drugs Rept,, 1894, iv., 50, 152, etc.). The seeds of .4. .ri,f //<<<. Wall, 

 (ildyechi-dane), are imported from Siam and Singapore and sold in the Indian 

 bazars. The smell and taste are said to be stronger than those of Eiet- 

 ttii-iii < ninnnn>,, but not so pleasant. [Cf. Sonnerat, Voy. aux Ind. Or. 

 Planch., pi. 137. For -*. Hi-unntiicniH, ffoxb., cf. Kew Kept., 1877, 27.] 



AMORPHOPHALLUS CAMPANULATUS, Blume; Fl.Br. D.E.P., 



vi., 513 ; Pharmacog. Ind., iii., 546 ; Mollison, Textbook Ind. Agri., * 225-7. 

 iii., 189-91 ; AROIDE^E. Elephant's Foot, zamin-kand, ol, surana, jangli- Ol. 

 suran, karunai-kizhangu, kanda-godda, wa, etc. A tuberous rooted herb 

 found on the plains of India from the Panjab to Bengal, the Deccan and 

 Ceylon, cultivated in rich moist soils. 



*yn<intin-ri<iH Mijii-ntifti . Schott., an allied plant met with in the Deccan, Allied Plants, 

 is regarded by the Hindus as a kind of wild surana, and stroMitiim gnttn- 

 titm, Schott., a species of the plains of Upper India and the Kookii. ascending 

 the Himalaya to 5,000 feet in altitude, has similiar medicinal cn^racteristics, 

 but these are too unimportant to justify independent positions in this work. 

 In .MEDICINE the conns and also the seeds of .4nrj*/ioj/ifiM* are used as Medicine, 

 external irritants to relieve rheumatic swellings. Confections of the tubers 

 (corms) with treacle, aromatics and Plumbago-root are given in cases of piles 

 and dyspepsia. One of the Sanskrit names of the plant is arsogna " destroyer 

 of piles." The wild tubers peeled, cut into segments and dried by being strung, 

 constitute the inadan-)naet of the shops. The cultivated corms are cooked and Madan-mast. 

 form a common article of FOOD with the poor. They are boiled like potatoes, Food, 

 cooked in curries and pickled or preserved. 



Mollison says the crop is important chiefly in the Gujarat and Baroda territory. Production. 

 He gives the accumulated cost of cultivation in the fourth year (Surat district) as 

 Rs. 484 per acre and observes that the cultivation can accordingly be undertaken 

 only by well-to-do persons. In Bengal the average crop under favourable cir- 

 cumstances is about 200-400 maunds per acre and the price about Rs. 2 J per maund, 

 and Duthie and Fuller (Field and Garden Crops, iii., 6, pi. 69) say the bazar price 

 at Saharanpur is 2 annas per seer (Rs. 5 per maund). The tubers are usually 

 planted out in May to June, and in 12 months they are fit to be dug up. If 

 properly cultivated each tuber will weigh from 2 to 10 lb., or as much as 40 lb. 

 [Cf. Ann. Rept. Govt. Exper. Farm, Poona, Bomb., 1896, 15.] 



ANACARDIUM OCCIDENTALS, Linn. ; Fl. Br. Ind., ii., 20 ; D.E.P., 

 Gamble, Man. Ind. Timbs., 214 ; Pharmacog. Ind., i., 385 and 548 ; Cooke, i-. 231-3. 

 FLPres. Bomb., i., 274; Agri. Ledg., 1899, No. 12, 146; ANACARDIA- Cashew- 

 CE.E. The Cashew-nut, kdtu, hijli, bddam, mundiri, kottai, jidi-mdmidi nut< 

 i:tltu, jidi vote, etc. A tree originally introduced from South America, 

 but now established in the coast forests of India, especially in sandy places, 



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