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in flavor fish-roes. The tubers are large, and dug up in November and 
used as an esculent by the natives. (Mr- Davies, C. S.) Common in the 
Ghauts, and in both Concans. 
1545. D. Buveirera. Willd. 4. p. 793. Katu Katsil. Rheed, Hort. Mal, 7. 
t. 36. Ubium pomiferum. Rumph. Amb. 5d. ¢. 124. Pluk. Alm, 220. f. 6. Sal. 
Par. Lond. ¢. 17, 
Caroo-carunda.—The flowers and roots are eaten by the poorer classes; 
the latter are very bitter, but after undergoing the process of being covered 
over with ashes and steeped in cold water, to edulcorate them, they be- 
come edible. There is a variety which does not demand this preparation, 
as being naturally sweet. Beth Concans. 
1546. D. Oprositifoia. Rox. Flora. Ind. 3. p. 804. Petiv. Gaz.t. 31. fig. 6. 
Mar Paspolee.—Leaves simple, ovate. Mahableshwur. Dr. Murray; on the 
Ghauts about Khandalla. 
- Some of the species are extensively cultivated in the West Indies for 
their roots. The flowers appear after the rains in long cord—like spikes 
or racemes, suspended from the trees round the branches of which the 
plants twine. 
ORDER 146. SMILACEZ. 
Tse Smicax Trise. Lind, nat. syst. p. 277. 
712. SMILAX.L. Dioecia Hexandria. 
From Smile—a scraper, in allusion to the prickly stems, or perhaps ‘from 
Smilax, Bindveed, (Aves. 215) alluding to the twining habit of the plants. 
Gaert, 1. ¢.16. Lam. Ill. ¢. 817. 
1547. S. Ovariroxia. Rox. Flora. Ind.3. p. 794. S. Zeylanica. Willd. 
4. p. 775. Kari Vilandi. Rheed. Hort. Mal. 7. ¢. 31. China Amboinensis, 
Rumph. Amb: d. ¢. 161. 
Gootee wail—a scandent armed shrub. Deccan and Concans. 
1548. S. Macrorny ra, Rox. Flora. Ind. 3. p. 793. 
Salsette and Concans, N. 
ORDER 147. ASPHODELEZ. ; 
Tue AspHoDEL TRIBE. Lind. nat. syst. p, 273. Loud. Hort. Brit. p. 539. 
718. ASPHODELUS. tL. Hexandria Monogynia. 
Compounded of a—privative and sphallo—to supplant; the flowers not be- 
ing surpassed by others in beauty. 
1549. A. Ctavatus. Rox: Flora. Indica. 2. p.148.Common in corn fields 
about Admedabad. Mr. Law. 
‘* The Asphodelwas planted by the ancients near burial places, in order 
to supply the manes of the dead with nourishment’ Johnson. Pope alludes 
to the custom in his St. Cecilia. 
‘* By those happy souls who dwell in yellow meads of Asphodel” 
714. ANTHERICUM. Lt. Hexandria Monogynia, 
._ §  Anthos—flower—herkos—a hedge; a name applied by Greeks to the stem 
© of the Asphodel. (Loud.) Lam, III. ¢. 240. 
1550. A. TuBerosum. Rox. Flora. Ind. 2. p. 149. Cor. Pl. 2. ¢. 188, Flows 
ers in the beginning of the rains, Tubers edible, Both Concans, ; 
