216 



DHUNNIA. Coriandrum Sativum. Coriander seed. This is 

 also imported. 



DILL PUSSUND. Cucurbita Lagenaria. Small Pumpkin. This 

 is a small species of round squash or gourd, and is grown in the 

 bed of rivers with the melons ; it much resembles, when dress- 

 ed, the vegetable-marrow, and is thought by some to be even 

 superior. 



ERVIE. Caladium Esculentum. Urvie. This is a small bul- 

 bous root sown from March to July, in rows or beds, mostly 

 along a water course where ginger is planted. It requires much 

 water, and takes from six to seven months to ripen. When 

 boiled and then roasted it is very wholesome and somewhat 

 resembles a yam in taste ; the Natives also put it into curries. 



GAJUR. Daucus Carota. Carrot. 



GUNDUNA. Alliutn Porrum. Leek. 



GURANYO ALOO. Dioscorea Rubella. Bed Sweet Yam. This 

 is oblong and red skinned root tuberous, deeply tinged with red 

 under the skin, but the colour does not penetrate deep; they 

 are sometimes as much as three feet long in a rich light soil. 



GURANYO ALOO LAL. Dioscorea Purpurea. Purple Yam. 

 Root oblong ; throughout of a lighter or dark purple, but 

 always considerably deep in tinge. This colour is permanent. 



ZEMMY KUND. D. Atro Purpurea. Another species. Tubers 

 sub-rotund purple throughout, very large, of an irregular, 

 smooth, roundish shape, and growing near the surface, so as to 

 appear in dry weather through the cracks they make by raising 

 the soil over them. 



HULDEE. Curcuma Longa. Turmeric. There are four spe- 

 cies of this plant, one a small and very fine sort; the other 

 longer and coarse ; the third the Ambie used chiefly as medicine, 

 the fourth a wild species. That which is cultivated for domestic 

 culinary purposes is sown in beds like ginger, and when ripe in 

 twelve months, taken up and dried. It is extensively cultivated 

 in most parts of India, and sells, green, from eight to eighteen 

 seers the rupee. 



HULEEM. Arabis Chinensis. Cress. Described elsewhere. 



