TIIK I.ITCIII KKUIT 



NICOTIANA 

 TABACUM 



NEPHELIUM LIT-CHI, ',/,. . h'l. Jlr I, 7; Gamble, 



Man. Ind. Timbs., 190:' r.ill.ut. l.i*t Trees, 



/'/. Pres. Bomb., 1903, i., 268; SAPINDACE*. The Lit. -hi. /,/,///. lichi, 

 kyetmauk. A luimlsome evergreen tree, introduce. 1 from South < 

 uiul now largely cultivated in Northern Imliii for ite delicioiu FRUIT. 



Tho troo grows well in all parts <>f India, hut in tin- north-west in apt to !< 

 kill.-,! l.\ mid. It | in- t'l-rs a <lam[> climate and abundance of water. The finest 

 ijtmlit y !' fruit haH hitherto been produced in Bengal and AHMUII, more especially 

 tli.' Int t. T provinci . I. m lini- fruit is also obtainable in Lucknow and in Saharan- 

 pur. It may )<> propagated by seed, but the surest way to obtain good \>. 

 I.- JIM .p.r.-.ite l>y <iiit i, a hunt t ho end of May. For this method of propagation th" 

 reader should consult an article by Masters (Agri.-Hort. Soc. Trans., 1* 

 vi.. IS) <|it, i|e<| l.y Kirnii'iurer (I.e. 9). The guti mad.- in May will (< rcii'i 

 renio\ UIL- and pnttiii.tr "IT l>y tlin commoin m.-ut of the cold weather, ami may be 

 planted out in flu- fdlliiuin^' rainy SOOHOII. Tin- fruit i.s n.-urly round, about an 

 inch and a half in diameter. The edihle pnrtion is tho semi-transparent pulp or 

 aril which covers the seed. Tho Chinese dry the fruit, which than becomes 

 Naekish, and in thi* state it may be seen in London fruit shops, but it in incom- 

 parable with the fre.sh fruit. [Cf. Boyin, Fl. Sin., 1656, D. ; Sonnerat, Voy. aux 

 Itxlix. ITSi*. iii., 255-8 ; Bretschneider, Hist. Kun>/>. Hot. Dic. in China (>\\\ 

 M. ndoza, 1585), 1808, 11 and (quoting Tripiult, 1615) 10-1; Woodrow, (i.inl. in 

 Ind., 1903, 238; Firminger, Man. Gard. Ind. (ed. Cameron), 1904, 265.] 



NICOTIANA, Linn. ; Lobel, Hist. Stirp., 1576, 316 ; Everart, 

 De Herba Panacea, 1587 ; Casper Bauhiu, Pinax, Theat. Bot., 1623, 169 ; 

 Parkinson, Parad., 1629, 363^ ; Gerarde, Herb., 1636, 357-61 ; Simon 

 Paulli, Comment, de Abusu Tabati, etc., 1665 ; Tourn., Inst. rei Herb., 1719, 

 i., 117 ; Miller, Gard. Diet., 1st ed., 1731 ; Tiedemann, Gesch. des Tabak, 

 etc., 1854; Koning, Der Tabak, etc., 1900; Comes, Monog. du genre 

 Nicotiana, 1899 ; also Delia Razze dei Tabacchi, etc., 1905 ; Prain, Beng. 

 Plants, ii., 751-2; Cooke, Fl. Pres. Bomb., ii., 276 ; Kissling, Handbuch der 

 Tabak, etc., 1905 ; Anastasia, Le Varietd Tipiche delta Nicotiana Tabacum, 

 1906 ; SOLANACE^;. 



Prof. Comes of Naples has described some 41 species of Nictttitimi. 

 The majority are natives of the New World, though a few are met with 

 in the Philippine Islands, Australia and New Caledonia, etc. Only two, 

 or perhaps three, can be regarded as affording the commercial products 

 TOBACCO and SNUFF, but under each of these Comes has assorted numerous 

 varieties and races, some of which possess special properties, and would 

 seem to constitute the trade qualities famed throughout the world. The 

 following are some of the chief forms, and the countries with which these 

 are mainly associated : 



N. Tabacum, Linn.; Fl. Br. Ind., iv., 245; Comes, Monog., I.e. 7-19; 

 also Delia Razze, etc., 1-222 ; Sadebeck, Kulturgew. der Deut. Kolon., 

 1899, 206 ; Wiesner, Die Rohst. des Pflanzenr., 1903, 613. A native of tropical 

 America, which Conies views as embracing some six varieties as follows : 



Var. frutlcosa, Hook. /, Bot. Mag., 1876, t. 6207 ; Comes, I.e. tt. i., iii. 

 The narrow-leaved Shrubby Tobacco. A native of Mexico and Brazil. Appears 

 to be the plant described by some of the older authors e.g. the herba aancta 

 minor of Lobel, and the Nicotiana minor angustifolium of Bauhin. According 

 to Comes, the following are some of the races of this plant Carabobo, China. 

 Nopal, Doniaku, Singapore and the South Indian. 



Var. lanclfolia, Comes, I.e. tt. i., iv ; Heuze, Le* PI. Indust., 1895, iv., 18. 

 A native of South America. In India it would appear to be occasionally culti- 

 vated on the hills, as for example in Kashmir, Nilgiri hills, etc., and in the Philip- 

 pine Islands (Manilla). Comes mentions, as races of this plant, Domingo, Kentucky 

 Burloy, Cattaro, etc. 



793 



D.B.P., 

 v., 846-8. 

 Lit 



Fruit. 



IT. .;...-,!.,,. 



I i- m, 



D.E.P., 



v., 351-428. 



Tobacco. 



Species 



and 



Varieties. 



D.E.P., 

 v., 353. 



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