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BAMBUSAARUNDINACEA. Graminacece. Hind. BAS. The Bam- 

 boo grows in all parts of the Deccan, both in the hills and jungles, 

 and therefore needs little description. There are two varieties, 

 male and female. A product, called Tabasheer, is found in the 

 hollow joints of the latter, and sold at a high price among the 

 Natives. These trees when in clumps are very handsome, but 

 make a great litter when the leaves begin to fall after the rains. 

 Nothing, however, can be more beautiful than the foliage when 

 in fresh leaf. The young shoots, just as they strike out of the 

 ground, are made into pickle, and also boiled and eaten by the 

 poorer classes. The seed is sometimes boiled with meat and 

 spice, and formed into a broth or soup. There is also a species in 

 Bengal bearing a pear-shaped fruit the Bambusa Melocanna. 



BARLERIA PURPUREA. Acanthacece. BARLERIA CRISTATA. 

 A shrubby spreading plant, with opposite, sub-rotund nearly 

 sessile leaves ; spines in axillary pairs longer than the leaves ; 

 flowers solitary, large, of a beautiful pink colour. 



BARRINGTONIA ACUTANGULAR. Myrtacece. NAT. HIJJUL. TAM. 

 RADAMI. A large tree, flowers in pendulous racemes of a dark 

 scarlet colour, fragrant ; fruit oblong, four-sided sharp angles. 



BASELLAALBA. Chenopodiacece. NAT. SUFFET-POOL. A twin- 

 ing succulent plant with smooth fleshy leaves; grows very 

 rapidly from seed, and is eaten as spinage. 



BASELLA B.UBRA. NAT. POOTIKA. MALABAR NIGHTSHADE. 

 A succulent plant of the same species, only with red leaves, and 

 is nsed as the former ; grows in any garden soil from seed, but 

 requires sticks for it to climb upon. 



BASSIA LATIFOLIA. Sapotacece. NAT. MOULA. TAM, IPEI. 

 This tree is very common ; deciduous in the cold season. An 

 intoxicating spirit is distilled from the flowers, which have a 

 very disagreeable scent ; the seeds yield an oil which is used to 

 adulterate ghee. 



BASSIA LONGIFOLIA. Sapotacece. NAT. MOOA. TAM. ELOOPIE. 

 This is a large tree like the former ; the wood is used for the 

 construction of carts, planks, &c,, and a fatty oil is obtained 

 from the seeds. 



