Bulletin of Miscellaneous Information, Volúmenes7-8H.M. Stationery Office, 1894 Issue for Jan. 1897 contains List of Kew publications, 1841-1895; Appendix 5, 1907, contains List of Kew publications, 1896-1906. |
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Página 252 - He says the Greeks of the expedition of Alexander saw it in India and he quotes the name pala which still persists in Malabar. Sages reposed beneath its shade and ate of its fruit. Hence the botanical name Musa sapientum. Musa is from the Arabic...
Página 18 - Published under the authority of the First Commissioner of Her Majesty's Works. Handbook of the New Zealand Flora ; a Systematic Description of the Native Plants of New Zealand, and the Chatham, Kermadec's, Lord Auckland's, Campbell's, and Macquarrie's Islands. By Dr. JD HOOKER, fRS Complete in one vol., 30$.
Página 142 - 12 to 18 inches in length, and from a quarter of an inch to an inch " or more in diameter. Combined with the usual sweetness of " liquurice root, this variety has a feebly bitter taste.
Página 311 - Plantain meal is prepared by stripping off the husk of the plantain, slicing the core, and drying it in the sun. When thoroughly dry, it is powdered and sifted. It is known among the Creoles of the colony under the name of conquintay.
Página 118 - I AM directed by the Marquis of Salisbury to transmit to you, to be laid before Mr.
Página 1 - These seeds are available for exchange with Colonial, Indian, and Foreign Botanic Gardens, as well as with regular correspondents of Kew.
Página 311 - Eullsized and well-filled bunches give 60 per cent, of core to 40 per cent, of husk and top stem; but in general it would be found that the core did not much exceed 50 per cent., and the fresh core will yield 40 per cent, of dry meal, so that from 20 to 25 per cent, of meal is obtained from the plantain, or 5 Ibs. from an average bunch of 25 Ibs.
Página 400 - The true Cardamomum majus is a conical fruit, in size and shape not unlike a small fig, reversed, containing roundish angular seeds of an agreeable aromatic flavour, much resembling that of the Malabar Cardamom, and quite devoid of the burning taste of Grains of Paradise. Each fruit is perforated, having been strung on a cord to dry. Such strings of Cardamoms are sometimes used by the Arabs as rosaries. The fruit in question is called in the Galla language Korarima, but it is also known as Guragi...
Página 350 - Some of them were very fine-looking young men, of good caste, and respectable families ; and all stated that their pains and infirmities were confined entirely to the parts below the waist. They described the attack as coming on suddenly, often while the person was asleep, and without any warning symptoms whatever ; and stated, that a greater portion of the young men were attacked than of the young women.
Página 252 - There is an immense number of varieties of the banana in the south of Asia, both on the islands and on the continent; the cultivation of these varieties dates in India, in China, and in the Archipelago from an epoch impossible to realize; it even spread formerly into the Islands of the Pacific and to the west coast of Africa; lastly, the varieties bore distinct names in the most separate Asiatic languages, such as Chinese, Sanskrit, and Malay.