
656 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [December, 1908. ] 
Allamanda seit @gul, har kakra from == 
Terminalia Chebula, €@¥1 tho 
9. Rosa indica—ati aie kanta gdlab, “ the thorny rose.” 
10. Noni plumbaginifolia—aa stats, ban tamaku, “ the 
jungle tobace 
11. Taso Curcas—att ceatei, bag bhéranda. The first 
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garden, rtel being the Bengali form of the name for~ Ricinus 
communis, «tt cette! would mean therefore “the garden castor- 
seed plant” in distinction to the true “78, the Ricinus communis 
cultivated in fields. There exist other forms of the name of 
Jatropha Curcas, namely atq csatei, which would mean “the 
Tiger’s castor-seed plant,” which has not a clear meaning, and 
atta ceatel, which would indicate a resemblance to the 7t@, gab, 
i.e., Diospyros embryopteris: unfortunately the most vivid 
imagination could not find many features in common between 
Jatropha Curcas and Diospyros embryopteris. As the form ft 
cSatel is undoubtedly in use, we have evidently to deal with a 
not uncommon case of metathesis. 
fair number of specimens of so-called ‘‘ useful ” plants, but as far 
as wild plants are concerned, the collections are apiepaeg 4 re 
Iti is evidently a case of “ Thou on so near and yet so far!” It 
oped that mofussil coll will develop into centres for 
petenitel: studies, and that their Pauthorities will make it one of 
their duties to start museums containing complete collections of 
the plants growing within the limits of the Division in which the 
educational institution is situated. Such a collection should not 
only contain the dried specimens themselves, but oe ae amo: on 
the mode of occurrence, the time of flowering and ing, the 
colour of the different parts of the flowers as well as tins ‘truits on 
various physiological facts, such as the time of opening and closing 
o wers and drooping of leaves and many others, the uses to 
which the plants are put by the peasantry, and any existing ver- 
nacular name, excluding, however, fancy names invented for the 
occasion, 

