1890.] History of Garden Vegetables. 149 
pisello; in Spain, gutsante ; in Portugal, ervilha ;* in Norway, 
ert ;* in Greece, pizelia, aukos ; * in Russia, gorock.” 
In Bengali, matar,® burra-mutur ; in Ceylon, rutagoradia ; * 
in Cochin China, dau-tlon ;® in Egyptian, desilleh ; in Hindu- 
stani, muttir, matar, dana, buttani;® in India, mutur ;™ in 
Japan, wan, nora mame ;* in Sanscrit, harenso;* in Tamil, 
puttanie ;* in Telinga, goondoo sani gheloo.® 
PEANUT. Arachis hypogaea L. 
This is rather a plant of field than garden culture, yet it is in- 
cluded by Vilmorin among his kitchen garden esculents. It 
seems to be of New World origin, as jars filled with the nuts 
have been found in the mummy pits of Peru and Pachacamac,” 
as I have myself verified at the National Museum, and Bentham®™ 
inclines to the same belief, as the other known species of the 
genus, five in number, are all Brazilian. Garcilasso de la Vega,” 
who was a boy at the time of the conquest of Peru, speaks of 
this plant under the name of yuchic, called mani by the Span- 
iards. The first writer who notes it is Oviedo in his Cronica de 
las Indias, who says the Indians cultivate very much the fruit 
mani ; a little later Monardes (1569) describes a plant which is 
probably this. Before this the French colonists, sent in 1555 
to the Brazilian coast, became acquainted with it under the name 
of mandobi, which Jean de Lery describes.” It was figured by 
Laet in 1625," and by Marcgrav in 1648” as the anchic of 
the Peruvians, the mani of the Spaniards. 
# Vilmorin. Les Pl. Pot., 423. 
Schubeler. Culturpfl., 136. | 
Peru, 
53 Gray. Bot. U. S. Exp. Ex., 424. 
Pai ie Royal Coun., Hak. Soc., Ed. IL., 360. 
pear Bens: 2he8, 9. 

