ON SELECT INDIAN PLANTS, 323 



78. Guva'ca : 



Syn. Ghont'ha, Puga, Cramuca, Capura. 



Vulg. Supyari. 



Linn. Areca Catechu. 



The trivial name of this beautiful palm having 

 been occasioned by a gross error, it must necessarily 

 be changed; and Guvaca should be substituted in its 

 place. The inspissated juice of the M 1 mos a Qhadira 

 being vulgarly known by the name of Cat'h, that 

 vulgar name has been changed by Europeans into 

 Catechu 1 and because it is chewed with thin slices of 

 the Udvega, or Areca-nut^ a species of this palm 

 has been distinguished by the same ridiculous cor- 

 ruption. 



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DESCRIPTION 



OF THE 



C U T T U B M I N A R 



BY 



ENSIGN JAMES T. BLUNT, 



OF THE ENGINEERS. 



I^HE base of the Cuttub Minar, is a polygon of 

 -* twenty-seven sides, and rises upon it in a cir- 

 cular form ; the diminution of the column, is in a 



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