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USEFUL PLANTS OF THE DISTRICT OF LAKHIMPUR. 
22 . Typhouium Schott. 
•34. T. trilotmtum Schott. F. B. I. vi, 509. 
Dibrugarh. No. 355. 
Local name. — Sama kosu. 
Distiub.— Bengal to Burma and in the Eastern and Western Penin- 
sulas to Cevton. Also Siam and Malay Islands. 
Tlie tubers, eaten with bananas, cure stomach complaints. 
VII. COM MELI V ACE A E. 
2 $. Floscopa Lour, 
21 ). F. scamieiis Lour. F. B. I. vi, 390; Eng. & Prantl ii, 4, 68; 
Beng. PL 1086. 
North Lakhimpur. Nos. 41445 and 41454. 
Local name. — Kana himlu. 
Distiub. -Throughout tropical India and Ceylon; Eastern Asia, 
tropical Australia. 
Very common throughout the district, particularly on grass-lands in N. Lakhimpur. A 
herb with sheathing leaf-bases, fleshy stems creeping below and rising upwards to bear 
pyramidal hairy inflorescences of lilac or pink flowers. In N. Lakhimpur the juice of the 
stem is put into sore eyes. 
VIII. LI LI ACE. IE. 
24. Allium Linn. 
26. A. Cepa Linn. F. B. I. vi, 837 ; Eng. & Prantl ii, 5, 56 ; Beng. 
PL 1075 ; D. E. P. i, 169. 
Margherita. No. 104. 
Local name.- — Piyaz. (< Onion.” 
Distrib. — Cultivated in all countries. Native country unknown. 
Cultivated. The common onion, much grown in cottage gardens. The leaves and the 
bulbs are used in curry. 
27. A. sativum Linn. F. B. I. vi, 337 ; Beng PL 1076 ; D. E. P 9 
i, 172 ; Pharmacog. Ind. iii, 488 ; Eng. & Prantl ii, 5, 55. 
Margherita. No. 105. 
Local name. — Nihuru, lahsan. “ Garlic ” 
Distrib. — Cultivated everywhere. 
Cultivated, The common garlic is a smaller plant than the onion with flat leaven and 
infloresssence borne on a slender stalk. The plant is used as a condiment. 
