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Extract from letter of 2nd April 1889 from the Deputy Conservator 
Forests, Multan aes to the Director, Botanical Depart- 
ment, Northern India 
It appears that the PESE are gathered and used by the poorer classes 
only. They are cooked in two ways: (a) mixed with flour in the pro- 
ee of one-fourth to one-third phog flowers to flour ; (5) ey 
with salt and condiments, to which those who ar re able add a little e ghee 
this preperation is eaten with the ordinary “roti” as a relish like 
* dal di 
The flowers are kept for a night in a closed earthenware vessel so as 
to fade, but it ns gmat that they may be kept for along time. I send 
a specimen of last year’s fl 
In Mozaffargarli the season for gathering seems to be just over, as 
the plants are in fruit. 
Extract from letter dated 6th April 1889 from Capt. G. Wingate, 
Assistant Commissary-General, Rawal Pindi, to the Director, 
Botanical Department, Norden India 
I enclose herewith a specimen of the ling bush x evi and 
seeds, which I have procured from the Mozaffargarh distri 
y the poorest classes use the flower as fcod to help ee the bepp? 
of better mey They collect the flowers, keep them usually in an 
earthen vessel over a day, then cook them with salt or other condiments, 
and, if they ean afford it, with ghee, and then the mass is eaten as a 
sort of vegetable. or very much in place of the dals eaten with rice in 
Bengal * 
bus the flowers are kneaded up in the thin atta, about one- 
fourth lowers to three-fourths atta, and baked in cakes and eaten 
The mes keep well for a long time. 
It will be interesting to ascertain the value of this particular kind of 
food, consisting as it does of the abortive flowers of a plant belonging 
toa "family the seeds of which, as in the case of buckwheat, from the 
usual edible portion of the plant. 
J. F. Duru 
Dirooter, Botanical emn 
Simla, 1st May 1889. North 
A portion of the phog flowers received from the India Office wa 
placed in the hands of A. H. Church, mt , F.R.S. irre of 
he 
d Water > - - - ap 0 per cent, 
Oil &c. ~- - - e UR ro 
Albuminoids - - - 16:7 » 
Sugar, &c. - +. - - 46:1 5 
Cellulose - - - = 10°C yj 
Ash F z - 7e ” 
