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Shingaree.—The fruit is eaten by the natives on fast days. In 
tanks throughout the Concans. N.—In Goozerat it forms an important 
article of food to certain classes. The Bhoie, or Hamal caste of fishermen 
take precautions to preserve it from extirpation, to which it might be liable 
when the tanks dry up,in the Oonale or hot season, by making nurseries in 
the pools of rivers, and transplanting it at the beginning of the rains into 
tanks——The karkwa or river tortoise is another enemy which they have to 
contend against, 
A second purpose to which the fruit is converted, is, in making a dye of 
a red colour, which is used along with a yellow dye obtained from the 
flowers of the kackria, (Butea frondosa.) during the Hooly festival, 
“« The revel of the earth, the mask of India.” 
(Dr. Burn. C, 8. Kairah.) 
Childe Harold. 
‘Dr. Royle says JT. natans, abounds in the lakes of Cashmere. 
ORDER 60. HALORAGES. w. & A. prod. 1. p. 887. 
285. SERPICULA. t. Monoecia Tetrandria. 
From serpo---to creep; the species are small creeping plants, Lam. ¢.758. 
596. S. VERTICILLATA. Rox. Flora. 3. p, 578. Rox, Cor. 2. ¢. 164. Udora 
verticillata. Sprengel. Elodea granatensis. Hunibold. 
The plant here referred to has a considerable resemblance to the Empe- 
trum nigrum, or Crow berry, on which grouse feed on the moors in Scotland. 
It grows on the margins of pools in the Yena river at Mahableshwur, but as 
the flowers have not yet been seen, it may probably belong to a different 
genus, from Serpieula. 
286. MYRIOPHYLLUM.L. Monoecia Tetrandria. 
Myrios.—a myriad, and phyllon—a leaf: im allusion to the numerous di- 
visions of the leaves. Gaert. ¢. 68. Lam, ¢. 775: 
597. M.TrETRANDRUM, W. & A. 1048. Rox. Flora. 1. p. 451. 
A small aquatic plant with verticilled leaves.—in tanks throughout the 
Concans. 
ORDER 61. CUCURBITACE. w.& A. Prod. 1. p. 340. 
THe Gourd Trise, Lind. nat. syst. p. 192. 
2987, LAGENARIA. Ser. Monadelphia Triandria. ° 
From Lagena—a bottle; inallusion to the shape of the fruit. Lam. ¢. 795. 
Gaert. 2. ¢. 88. 
ra ? 4 
598. LL. Vuuearis. w. & A.1051. Don’s, syst. 3. p. 4. 
Cucurbita lagenaria, Rox. Flora. 3. p. 718. Rumph. Amb. 5. ¢. 144, Rheed.- 
Mal. 8, ¢. 1, 4 and 5. Lam. Illust. t. 795. f- 2. ‘ 
Hurrea Kuddoo;—white Pumpkin; bottle gourd;—very commonly cultivat- 
ed, and of great importance to the natives as an article of food. The hard 
’ ortex is used asa bottle for containing honey &c. 9 
rwa Boplais generally used as a buoy for swimming 
ing haggage &c. It is by no means so common as the 
woody ¢ 
A variety called Ku 
across rivers, transport ) 
sweet bottle gourd. (Dr, Gibson.) 
288. Cucumis. Monoecia Monadelphia. 
Sikuos—a Cucumber. (Arist. in Acharn.)—Sikueraton—a garden of Cu- 
cumbers. (Isaiah C. 1, vy. 8.) Gaert. ¢. 88. Lam, ¢, 790. 
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