CHENOPODIUM 



THE MANGROVK ALBUM 



Bathu 



. 695, 713). The following are the chief vegetable and animal substance* 

 nployed as constituents in special cements, and mostly along with lime. 

 Adenanthera pavonina, Linn. ; seeds (see p. 25). 

 JEgle Marmeloa, Corr. ; wild fruits (see p. 26). 

 Agave; sap (see p. 35). 



Allium sativum. Linn. ; fresh juice (see p. 58). 

 Boraasua flabellifer, Linn. , juice (see p. 171). 



Carthamus Oxyacantha, Bleb, /oil (seep. 2761; also cf. Agri. Ledg., 1904, No. 11). 

 COCOB nucifera, Linn. ; jaggery and milk (see pp. 361, 929). 

 Commiphora Agallocha, /<?/. ; the gum-resin (see p. 400). 

 Gelatinous Cements ; see Isinglass (p. 695). 

 Melanorrhoea usitata, Wall. ; oloo-rosin (see p. 779). 

 Oryza (glutinous rice) ; (see p. 826). 

 Sugar ; gur or jaggery used in chundm (see p. 956). 

 Triticum; gluten of wheat-flour (see p. 1088). 

 Typha angustata, Chaub and Bory. ; the down from ripe fruits (see p. 777). 



CERIOPS C AN DOLLE AN A. Aiti. ; also C. Roxburghiana, D E p 



Fl. Br. Ind., ii., 436 ; Gamble, Man. Ind. Timbs., 333 ; Prain, Rec. ii.', 261. 

 Surv. Ind., ii., 306 ; Cooke, Fl Pres. Bomb., i., 473 ; Agri. Ledg., 1902, Mangrove. 

 1., 32-4 ; Brandis, Ind. Trees, 304 ; RHIZOPHORE.E. The Mangrove, 

 n, kiri, chauri, gordn, madd, tengah, Jcabaing, etc. 



The vernacular name gordn or gardn applies to both these plants, and in fact 

 are not economically distinguished. The former is a small evergreen tree 

 the muddy shores and tidal creeks of India, especially common in Sind ; and 

 the latter a large shrub of similar conditions in the Sundribans and the coast 

 of Chittagong down to Tenasserim. The barks of both trees yield an important 

 TAN. A sample of tannin-extract prepared in the Sundribans and examined Tan. 

 in England in 1900 was not, however, much valued because of its dark colour. 

 Prof. Trimble of the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy found 23'07 per cent, 

 of tannin in the dry bark of a sample of 1\ f'<iinioiir.nim sent from Singapore, 

 31 '56 per cent, in a Bengal sample. Other Bengal specimens were found 

 yield on the dry bark 30-20 per cent, and 18-30 per cent. (Hooper) ; 17'77 per 

 t., 21-54 per cent., 1 3-23 per cent. (Dunstan). [For further details cf. Imp. Inat. 



Bepta., 1903, 186-90 ; Agri. Ledg., I.e.} About ten to twelve thousand Sales. 

 ids of Mangrove Bark are sold annually for tan in the Calcutta market 

 about 10 annas per maund of dry bark. The extract is also used as a DYE Dye. 

 give a brownish-red colour to cloth, but especially a good black and purple 

 conjunction with indigo. In the Malaya the cloth is first dyed in Mangrove- 

 ract, then dried, and subsequently dipped in indigo. \Cf. Kew Bull., 

 )7, 91-2.] The whole plant is astringent : a decoction of the bark is applied Medicine, 

 stop haemorrhage, and on the African coast the young shoots are employed 

 the preparation of a substitute for quinine. The TIMBER of most of the Timber, 

 cies is hard and that of *. cniniiean<i is used for knees of boats. It is 

 uperior fuel, and makes excellent charcoal. 



CHENOPODIUM ALBUM, Linn. ; Fl Br. Ind., v., 3 ; Duthie D.E.P., 

 Fuller, Field and Garden Crops, iii., 21 ; Cooke, Fl Pres. Bomb., ii., "" 26 ~ 6 ' 



CHENOPODIACE^;. The White-goose-foot, bathu-sag, chandan-betu, 

 lunak, etc. 



There are various cultivated and wild forms of this ubiquitous plant, e.g. 

 i n proper (chandan-betu), ririrfe (bettu-shak), jmrimi-riiin (lal-bethi), etc. 

 jm the point of view of the present work the interest lies in the fairly food. 



sive cultivation in the higher Western Himalaya as a food-grain and pot- 

 rb. A sample of the seed sent from the Pan jab and examined at the Imperial 

 titute gave the following results : water 8-3 per cent., albuminoids 18-4 per 

 at., starch 19-2 per cent., oil 21-1 per cent. The nutrient ratio was 1'377 

 and the nutrient value 86. Church (Food-Grains of Ind., suppl., 8) says that 

 " analysis amply confirms the Indian opinion of its highly nutritious char- 

 acter." The wild plant is regularly collected as a pot-herb and green vegetable. 

 The leaves are rich in potash-salts. A decoction of the plant is used as an 

 adjunct in indigo-dyeing and the seeds are employed medicinally (see Vinegar, Medicine, 

 p. 1110). [Cf. Buchanan-Hamilton, Stat. Ace. Dinaj., 169, 194.] 



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