620 The Turaee and Outer Mountains of Kumaoon* [June, 



venustum are sold in considerable quantities under the name of Huns- 

 raj (Toolsee in the hills,) being used as a dye. 



At pp. 392, 441, 442, some confusion has crept into the enumera- 

 tion of some of the species of Sinapis, which will be best cleared up by 

 a simple statement of their corrected names. 



Sinapis dichotoma, " Juria," " Judia," also " Luhota" and " Lyhta" 

 in the Bhabur ; " Kalee-surson" of Northern India. 



Sinapis glauca, Roxb. " Rara," t( Rada." " Bunga-surson" of Se- 

 harunpoor and the Dehrah Doon. " Peela, Peoora (i. e., yellow and usl 

 Surson, and often " Surson" simply, of Oude and Rohilkhund. The 

 Kumaoon plant is exceedingly like Brassica Napus, grown from Euro- 

 pean seed. 



Sinapis glauca. Royle, and Edgeworth, account of protected Sikh 

 States : not noticed in the Flora Indica. " Dyn," " Daeen," " Laee" 

 of Kumaoon and Gurhwal : sometimes " Khetiya," "Toree" and "To- 

 ria," (s. tuvria, pungent) of northern India, where this variety or spe- 

 cies is in general cultivation, including the Himalaya up to the villages 

 of Joohar, at 11,000 feet elevation. 



The "Teera" from Benares, p. 392, is the " Raee" and " Mukura 

 Raee" of p. 442 ; its specific name is still unknown to me. 



Huldwanee, pp. 395—399. 



Saccharum Sara or Munja. The lower half of the culm is called 

 sentha and setyut ; the upper half, sirkee moonj ; rope is made from 

 the leaf- sheaths. From Sir William Jones' expressions, it would ap- 

 paar that munja is simply the culm of S. sara : "from the moonja or 

 culm of the Sara was made the maunji, or holy thread, ordered by 

 Menu to form the sacerdotal girdle, in preference even to the cusa 

 grass." The plant generally called Moonj is abundant along the banks 

 of the Ganges at Hurdwar, and generally along the base of the moun- 

 tains and up the vallies to 3500 feet ; the brahminical thread called 

 juneo, when first worn, is still formed of its fibre : and in connection 

 with the constant use of the culm for arrows, may originally have 

 represented the bowstring. It agrees best with Roxburgh's S. Munja, 

 and at Hurdwar and in Gurhwal, is still commonly known by the San- 

 skrit term surkura, — the origin of sugar in every language : the root 

 being sri, to hurt. The application is not very clear, till we recollect 

 the resemblance of the sugar-cane to Saccharum Munja, and the arrow- 



