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is eaten when ripe. Fruits about Janu- 

 ary and February and eaten uncooked. 

 It is also used medicinally. [Rare.] 



13. Gur Masubia. (This is probably 

 Antidesma diandrum, Roth., Nat. Ord. 

 Euphorbiaceae.-H.on. Ed.)— A bush found 

 in the jungles. These leaves are boiled 

 and eaten as a vegetable. The fruit 

 which ripens about January or February 

 is eaten uncooked. 



14. Dhowrai.— A shrub found in the 

 jungle. The fruit is eaten when ripe 

 uncooked. Fruit ripens about June. 

 Considered most edible. 



15. Kattai.— A thorny shrub found in 

 the jungle. The fruit which ripens 

 about May or June is eaten uncooked. 

 It is considered most edible. 



16. Satawar (Pueraria tuberosa, 

 D.C., Nat- Ord. Leguminosae).—A small 

 shrub found in the jungle. The root is 

 pounded and used medicinally. Sup- 

 posed to give strength and increase milk 

 supply in animals. The new shoots 

 which appear about March are very 

 edible and much sought after. 



17. Kand Mool.— A small shrub found 

 in the jungles, and which is also culti- 

 vated. The root is parched or boiled, 

 and considered most edible. 



* 18. Akohur (Alangium Laiaarcki, 

 Thwaites, Nat. Ord. Cornaceoe). — A shrub 

 found in terai jungle. The fruit when 

 ripe is eaten uncooked. Fruits in June. 

 [Mul-anninchil, Tarn. Common.] 



Trees. 



* 19. Tend {Diospyros Melanoxylon* 

 Roxb., Nat. Ord. tibenaceai. )— When ripe 

 is generally eaten as a fruit. During the 

 famine when unripe it was dried, 

 pounded, and made into bread. It was 

 also baked, ground, and made into a 

 kind of sattu. Usually it is baked when 

 unripe and eateu. The method usually 

 adopted is a hole dug in the ground, and 

 a layer of bhusa spread at the bottom, 

 the fruit is placed on the busha, and 

 another layer of busha is spread over 

 it and then a layer of mud. On the mud 

 a fire is kindled and the fruit slowly 

 baked. Fruits in August and ripens in 

 following April. [Very rare ; nearly re- 

 lated to Ebony.] 



*20. Aonla (Phyllanthus Emblica, L., 

 Nat. Ord. Euphorbiaceae.)— This is gener- 

 ally eatrn when made up into a chatni 

 or preserve. During the famine it was 

 boiled ripe or 1 unripe and eaten, ordin- 

 arily when ripe it is eaten uncooked. 

 Fruits in June and ripens about March. 

 [Nelli, Sin., Toppi-nelli, Tarn, ; common 

 on patanas ; fruit preserved.] 

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* 21. GULAR (Fieus glomerata, Roxb., 

 Nat. Ord. Rutacece).— Generally eaten 

 when ripe ; when unripe it was boiled 

 and eaten as a vegetable. It was also 

 dried and pounded and made into 

 bread. The bark also was dried, pound- 

 ed, ground in a chakki and bread made 

 of the flour produced. Ripens all the 

 year round. [Attika, Sin., Atti, Tarn. 

 Common.] 



* 22. Bel (JEgle Marmelos, Correa, 

 Nat. Ord. Rutaceae). — Fruit ordinarily 

 eaten when ripe, when unripe it was 

 boiled or roasted and eaten. Fruits in 

 June and ripens in April and May. 

 [Cultivated : the Bael or Beli fruit.] 



23. Sal (Shores robusta, Goertn., Nat. 

 Ord. Dipterocarpeas.) — The fruit of the 

 sal tree is used. The kernel of the fruit 

 was first boiled when a kind of oil came 

 to the top and was skimmed off. It was 

 then ground to a flour and bread made 

 of it, and it was also parched and boiled 

 and eaten. The oil extracted was used 

 for lighting and was also used in the 

 food. Ripens in July, and was a common 

 article of diet during the famine amongst 

 the poor. 



* 24 Semal (Bombax malabaricum, 

 D. O. Nat. Ord. Malvaceae).— The bud of 

 the semal flower was boiled and eaten as 

 a vegetable. The flower was dried, 

 ground, and made into flour and eaten 

 as bread. The root of the small trees is 

 most succulent, and was eaten uncooked 

 like a radish. The bark of the trees, 

 small and long, was stripped, dried, 

 pounded, and ground in chakkis, and 

 bread made from the flour produced. 

 This last not very nutritive, but quite 

 innocuous. First buds in December 

 and January, flowers in February and 

 March, and ripens about April. [Katu- 

 imbul, Sin., Parutti, Tam., the cotton 

 tree.] 



* 25. Bahera (Terniinalia belemca, 

 Roxb., Nat. Ord. Combretacece). — A jungle 

 tree which fruits in June and ripens 

 about the following March. Ordinarily 

 the outside of the fruit is used medicin- 

 ally, but in the famine the kernel of the 

 stone inside was eaten raw, like almonds. 

 Supposed to be nutritive. [Bulu, Sin., 

 Tanti, Tam. ; the fruits are beleric 

 myrobalans, much used in native 

 medicine.] 



26. Bhelawan (Semecarpus anacar- 

 dium, L., Nat. Ord. Anavardiaccae). — A 

 jungle tree which fruits about January 

 or February. The fruit grows on the 

 stem, and the seed protrudes from the 

 end of the fruit. It is eaten when ripe 

 cooked, but the seed is poisonous, [Many 

 species of S. in Ceylon.] 



