AGRICULTURAL PRODUCE FODDER. 



Vernacular. Cusumbha, Kamalottara, Sans. Koosumbha, Sans. 

 Beng. Hind. Kajeerah, Beng. Koosum, Hind. Seendoorkum, 

 Tarn. Cossumba, Cey. Usfur, Arab. 



Habitat. Egypt. Widely cultivated in India. 

 Remarks. The KVTJKOS and KVIKOS of the Greeks. 



N. 0. 147. PEDALIACE.E. PEDALIADS. 

 Sesamum indicum. DeC. Indian Oily-grain. 



Linn. Syst. Didynamia Angiospermia. 



The seed cake. ^ 



Vernacular. Tila, Sans. Til, Beng. Hind. Krishna-til, Hind. 

 Gingelie, By. Wull-ellu, Can. Schit-elu ? Mai. Yelloo, Tarn. 

 Novu, Tel. Tel-tala, Tun-pat-tala, Cey. Duhn, Djyldjylan, 

 Arab. Roghen, Pers. Semsem, Egypt. Benjam, Sumatra. 



Habitat. India, from whence its migrations are traced to Mesopo- 

 tamia, Egypt, and the West Indies on the one hand, and to China 

 and Australasia on the other. 



Remarks. DeCandole's plant includes the 8. orientate of Sprengel, the 

 Oriental and Indian Oily-Grain, being varieties, not separate species. 

 Varieties are represented in Humph. Amboy. 5, plate 76, fig. 1 ; Bot. 

 Mag. Sims, plate 1688; Van Kheede, Hort. Mai. ix, plate 54, et 

 forte 55. S. laciniatum, W. of the neighbourhood of Hyderabad in the 

 Deccan would also appear to be only a variety. 



It is the arjo-ap-ov of the Greeks, and Sesama of the Homans. Herodotus 

 (Clio, cxciii) writing of the productions of the fertile plain of Babylonia 

 observes " I know not how to mention, although I have seen it myself, 

 th immense height to which Millet and Sesamum- will grow; for I am 

 well aware that they who have not visited this country will deem what- 

 ever I may say on the subject a violation of probability. They have no 

 oil, but what they extract from the Sesamum. 5 * 



N. O. 266. GRAMINE.E. GRASSES. 

 Andropogon glaber. Rox. 



Linn. Syst. Polygamia Moncecia. 



Vernacular. Gundha-goorana, Beng. Tambut, Dec. 

 Habitat. India. 



Andropogon scandens. 



Linn. Syst. Polygamia Moncecia. 



Vernacular. Marwail, Dec. 

 Habitat. India. 

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