i m; < nw 



KOUMISS*. Th. Bean, bdUa, 



knl'in. c!,<isi<i,ni r,i lull,, ooiuridan iU introdu 



into India to be quite P-< -cut though tins wmild seem to be true or 

 the plains. In the lusher lliin.dav.i iltiVation 



has passed down from the most am n-nt times. 



At the present day it is . ult i\ .u.-l in tho plain* here and there in European 

 -..I rhieiiy m th.- I'mti-.l Iv-vince*. There are two dietinet forma, the 

 i ..ililfil nii'l the broad-podded, the latter originating the name "Broad" 

 Windsor bean." Tl,. former i said to mice**- 



ii.-iiiU th.- "broad bean" for garden eulti I lie a*ed ihould 



\vn about the mnl<l **r, and previous to sowing ahould be eteeped 



in u basin .. f In. t \\at.r for tw*l V hour* OT IDOF* [<'/. Ifentluun. Rev. o/ Targiont- 



u Journ. Hort. > ; De Candolle. Ong. Cult. Plant*. 



1884, SMS : Chun-h. F, H ,.l<;r<iin* o/ !,,.! . 1999, 132: Aa Gray, Seient. Paver*. 



I ^!. i.. 349 ; Pharmacog. Jnd., 1890, i., 485-0 /*. on Prov. of Stu'rh'uan. 



l'"l. No. 5, 12.] 



VIGNA CATJANG, II //*. : r'!. Hr. ///.. ii., 206; Duthie and 

 Fuller, Field and Gard&i CrojM, ii.. IL'. tt. xxix.-xxx. ; Prain, Beng. 

 /'//,/'*. I !>:;. i., 389; Duthie. Fl. Upper (tang. Plain 7 ; LwiU- 



MINOS.E. The Cow Pea, Chowlee (India), Tow Cok (China) ; lobid or loblyd, 

 rfti'-rl't, ri<i>ti*h, barbati, ghangra, urohi, soitta, raivdn, chaunro, hurrea, cAov/i, 

 <-tirmnunni(-}>i/re, boberlit. tadaqunny, etc. A sub-erect herb cultivated in the 

 hotter parts of India. Var. sinensis, Prain ; Dolicho* sintntis, Roxb., Fl. 

 ha/., iii., 302 ; the Asparagus Bean; a climbing herb cultivated in moat 

 parts of India. 



It has been pointed out, under Dolicbos Lablab (p. 508), that the name 

 lobid (lobos of the Greeks) is commonly applied to that plant ami loosely by 

 Indian market gardeners to anv pulse, but more eMiiei -i.ilh ':_ pn-nont 



plant. The word lobiyd may be, however, derived from the Sanskrit lobhya 

 ( alluring); it occurs among the list of autumn (kharif) crops kno\v 

 Akbar, and since fignn t,ti, ,<,,., , ..tnes into season in the autumn it is probably 

 the plant referred to. The crop, as a rule, is grown in fields for its seed, and used 

 as a pulse. It may be cultivated alone, but is generally a subordinate crop. 

 Various races exist, one of which, with long pods, is raised by market gardeners 

 as a vegetable and sold as a substitute f<>r French beans. 



CULTIVATION. In Cuttack Bengal, where it is cultivated alone, Kauerjei (Agri. 

 Cuttack, 1893, 81-2) states that " it is grown on high loamy lands, and in rotation 

 generally follows biali and iw/iVi." The soil is prepared and the seed sown broad- 

 cast in September-October. In December-January, when thoroughly mature, 

 the plants are plucked up by the root. " The variety raised for vegetables begin* 

 to yield fruit in November-December." Basu remarks that in Lohardaga it is 

 " always grown as a second crop along with mdrud (rfiie !) and 

 occasionally with gord or upland paddy. In July the seed "in thinly scattered 

 over the fields at the rate of 1} seers per acre. The pods when they ripen are 

 hand-picked at the same time, or just before harvesting mdrud. Tho average 

 outturn is one maund per acre, the heaviest yield never exceeding 2 niaund* ; 

 the value of the produce is about Rs. 1-8 in a year of ordinary prices." 



In the United Provinces there were 1,062,783 acres under i'ird, mting, moth 

 and lobid during 1904-5. Later figures are not available. " It is less frequently 

 grown as a sole crop t bun either mung (*!I*IM >,i- !.) or iir.7 (f. .VMM**). 

 and the area which it occupies by itaelf is quite insignificant except in tin- 

 Rohilkhand Division. On the other hand it 



undeivi'"wth in a large proportion of kharif millet and eotr ith \\birh 



it is associated at the commencement of the rains. It ripens m (),-t.>l 



iiber, and yields a produce of about the same quantity a* that of urd " 

 '/ and Garden Crop*, I.e.). In the Season and Crop !< l'Oo-6 it i 



stated that the area nn.ler i his pulse was 32,703 acres, of which I rawed 



in the rabi. With regard t.. Homoay, Mollieon says "it is grown with other pulM 

 subordinate to bdjri in light alluvial soils in the Kaira dwt !* better 



in moderately light soil than in soils of heavier or denser consistence. It U 



1K>7 



VICNA 



1ANU 



ChowUe 



D.E.P., 

 vi., pt. iv., 



23d 8. 

 C-)W Pen. 



Cultiva- 

 tion: 

 Bengal 



lloUUoo. 



outturn. 



U. Prov. 



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