OILS AND OIL SEEDS. 



Habitat. Moluccas, Bengal, Deccan. 



Remarks. Called Belyaum Walnut, and very generally Candle-nut 

 Tree, by Anglo-Indians ; the kernels yield the Kekune oil of Ceylon. 



Ricinus COmmunis. Linn. Castor-oil Plant, Palma Christi. 



Linn. Syst. Monoecia Monadelphia. 



Vernacular. Eranda, Sans. Bherenda Beng. Arendi, Beng. Hind. 

 Citavanako, Avanak, Pandiavanak, Mai. Haralu, Can. Sitta- 

 munak, Valluk, Tarn. Amadam, Sittamindi, Tel. Endaru, Gey. 

 Khiroa, Cherua, Tehscha, Zcejt, Djar, Arab. Beedinjeer, Rowyen, 

 Pers. Kyet-hsoo, Burmah. Jarak, Citavanaca Malaya. 



Habitat. India. 



Remarks. The Kporav of Hippocrates, Herodotus, and Dioscorides, also 

 called KIKI by the Greeks, and Ricinus of the Romans. The Kikayon of 

 the Bible has been thought to refer to the Palma Christi, but there is an 

 uncertainty about the identification, and St. Jerome and St. Augustine 

 passed from words to blows regarding it. The appellation Palma Christi, 

 has been probably derived from its substitution by Christians on Palm 

 Sunday for true Palm branches, in countries where the latter are not to 

 be found. 



" In Rome upon Palm Sunday 

 They bear true palms, 

 The Cardinals bow reverently, 

 And sing old psalms ; 

 Elsewhere those psalms are sung 

 'Mid olive branches. 

 The holly bough supplies their place 

 Among the avalanches, 

 More northern climes must be content 

 "With the saJ willow." 



Salix caprea, W. Great round-leaved Willow, is the species of Willow 

 used in Germany ; and Seeman quotes from Miss Baker's " Glossary of 

 Northamptonshire Words," that it is to this day called " Palm" in the 

 counties bordering on the Forest of Arden, thus explaining the passage in 

 " As you like It," in which Rosalind says, " Look here, what I found on 

 a Palm tree !" and which has given literary critics so much trouble. Clare 

 so calls (Simmonds) the Goat Willow : 



" Ye leaning Palms, that seem to look 

 Pleased o'er your image in the brook." 



Box would also appear to have been substituted in England. (D'-day Bk.) 

 Nageia Putranjiva. Rox. Grey-barked Naaeia. 



Linn. Syst. Dioecia Tetrandria. 



Vernacular. Putruujiva, Sans. P9iiaolam t Mai. Kudra-juvi t Tel. 

 Habitat. Hindoostan, Coromandel, Concans. 



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