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10. Psidium Guyava—coratal, péyara, or frutzi, piyara, very 
Labia pens from the Spanish ae Sei or the correspond. 
ing Por ese name. The Eastern Bengal, name *¥ai, goya, 
18 stip a from guava or guyava. 
arica Papaya—c*#f*a, pépiya, from the Medisar:; name 
of the plant or fruit 
12. Physalis perveink e. tépari. 
13. Nicotiana Tabacum—state, tamak, wstatg, taémaku, 
tobacco, from tabaco, a kind of pipe out of which the natives 
of Antilles smoked the dried leaves of Nicotiana Tabacum 
Ananas sativus—atatza, anaras, probably from South 
American (Peruvian) name Nanas. It t has also been suggested 
that the name may be derived from atatz the Pomegranate, and 
44, ras, scent, smell—a less ee hypothesis. 
nacular name of some indigenous or previously Deva plant 
is se latina, without or with the addition of some distinguishing 
noun or adjective the indigenous plant either belonging to an 
allied species or genus or otherwise bearing some suggestive 
resemblance 
a. The case is one of simple transference of a name— 
Aleurites moluccana—atacats, akhrot, from the kernels of 
Aleurites moluccana jashne somewhat like the kernels of the true 
akhrot, the wallnut. | 
b. . The istinguishing name is that of a country or the cor- 
responding adjective. Here fratét, foreign, European, English, 
often only meaning Fisedigced by Europeans, plays a prominent 
art. 
1. Spondias dulcis—fratst atqsi, bilati amra, from atts = 
capa pS 
2. Arachis _Typogion Fem yy, bilati mung, from 5 ad 
Phaseolus radiat 
“4 Picteaaias aculeata—Tamtst fees, bilati kikar, from 
feed = Acacia arabica 
4, Pithecolobium dulee—feats! atyfa, bilati amli, from 
atrfa = Tamarindus indie 
5. Neptunia lone Feats att ates, bilati pani najak, 
from tt water, and atre = Mimosa pudica. 
6. Albizzia Richardiana—faatet atqest, bilati amlaki, from 
atqaat = Phyllanthus embelica. 
7: Sasa communis—faatst ctf%, bilati mendi, from cife= 
Lawsonia a 
8. Diospyros Rake SR ttt, bilati gab, from att= 
Diospyros embryopteri 
9. Solanum Tyecniidianastontt can, bilati bégun, from 
‘@ai= Solanum Melongena 
10. Solanum + tuberosum — Fear stg, bilati alu, from at, 
the tuber of various species of Dioscorea. 
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