348 Appendix. 



No. 61. 



Names which appear to be common to India and Japan 

 Saturday Review, April 30, 1887, p. 625. 



"But the Japanese consume the yard-long roots of the 

 hasu (Nelumbo nucifera) raw, boiled, baked, fried, or reduced 

 to a flour, in soups. With the seeds they make cakes and 

 pastry. Hasu is the vulgar, the pure Japanese name ; the 

 Sinico-Japanese, which is Buddhistic, and sacred, is ren, a 



corruption of the Chinese lien, the water-lily The 



Distylium racemosum (isu, or yusu], has long been used in 

 Japan for wheel-cogs, and its ashes are extensively used by 

 all the great native potteries, in their finest glaze, and in 

 the famous celadon green, known as seiji? 



In India they eat not only the seeds of the Kewul (Nelum- 

 bium speciosum), or pink lotus, under the name of Kewul 

 ghatta, but also its long roots, under the name of poo-rhi. 

 Half the latter word, and the Sinico-Japanese name ren, 

 appear to mean the same thing. Can Buddhist missionaries 

 have carried this name from one country to the other ? 



Then a sort of efflorescence scraped off certain soils in India 

 is called Sajji. It is used for washing clothes, soap-making, 

 and glazing pottery. Can this Indian word Sajji have any 

 connection with the Japanese Seiji? If so, these two words, 

 and perhaps many others, would appear to indicate inter- 

 course, of a very ancient date, between the two countries. 

 In the same way we find Capas (cotton) and Kussumb 

 (safflower) and Limoo (citrus) common to both India and the 

 Malay archipelago. 



No. 62. 



The following are speculative considerations, to account 

 for there being frequently no juice vesicles on the sides of 

 the pulp quarters or carpels, but only on the circumference 

 side of the carpel. I have seen many instances, in which 



