JUTE OR JEW’S MALLOW. 241 
named from the Korkhoros of the Greeks, which also was a 
pot-herb, and, indeed, is by many supposed to have been one 
of the very plants which we have now to describe. This is 
the species called Corchorus olitorius, which is still cultivated 
in the neighbourhood of Aleppo, and is described by travellers 
in the East as eaten for a pot-herb in Egypt and Arabia, as 
well as in Palestine. Rauwolf saw the Jews about Aleppo 
using the leaves as a pot-herb; hence the old name of “ Olus 
judaicum” in old authors; which by the French is translated 
Mauve de Juif, and by us “ Jew’s Mallow.” It is supposed to 
be the plant alluded to in ‘Job,’ xxx, 4.1 It is the same 
plant which, small and herbaceous in the dry soil of Syria, 
grows to a height of four or five feet in the North of India ; 
but in the hot, moist climate of Bengal, attains a size that 
allows fibres of twelve feet in length to be separated from it. 
The other plant, which we suppose also yields some of the 
Jute of commerce, is Corchorus capsularis, easily distinguished 
from the other by the form of its seed-vessels being globular 
instead of elongated and cylindrical. It is also more remark~ 
able for an east and west, than for a north and south distri- 
bution. We have stated that it is to be found in most parts 
of India, and likewise in Ceylon. It is curious that Rumphius, 
in his ‘ Herb. Amboinense,’ v. 212, t. 78, describes it under 
the name of Ganja (but this may be pronounced Gania), which 
is that applied in India to the true Hemp. By Malays it is 
called- Rami Tsjina, that is, Chinese Rami; a name which 
we shall find is also applied by them to other fibre-yielding 
plants, as to the true Hemp, according to Rumphius, and 
also to the Urtica nivea, as we shall see under the head of 
China-grass. It is no doubt cultivated in China, where 
Roxburgh states it is called Oi moa. 
This so-called Chinese Hemp—but a true Corchorus—was 
at one time supposed to be superior to the true Hemp, and 
_attempts were made to introduce it into England; the account 
of which is detailed in the ‘ Phil. Trans.,’ vol. Ixxii. It is 
there stated, that seeds sown in England produced plants 
fourteen feet high, and nearly seven inches in circumference, 
though few produced mature seeds. But some, however, 
which came to maturity in the second season produced a crop 
. «Malluach,’ in Kitto’s ‘Cyclopzdia of Biblical Literature.’ 
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