69 
5,901-3. Green Gram. Kattyawar. 
383. Green Gram. Sindh. 
810. Green Gram. Berar. 
803. Green Gram. Indore. 
849. Green Gram. Indore. 
3,348. Green Gram. Amritsur. 
3,384. Green Gram. Kangra. 
3,715-7, 3,720. Green Gram. H.H. the Maliarajah 
of Benares. 
962, 968, 974. Green Gram. Nagpoor. 
2,249. Green Gram. India Museum, London. 
PHASEOLUS MUNGO. 
“ Moog is sown,” says Colonel Sykes, “ with the first 
fall of rain in fields by itself; in favourable seasons it 
attains the height of ’two feet. It succeeds very well 
in a stony soil, and is frequently sown on lands at 
the base of the low hills, and on the fable land above, 
where the soil is not to be seen from the multitude 
of stones on the surface. In a small field, planted 
near a well, and oecasionally watered, I counted 62 
legumes on one plant with from 7 to 14 seeds in each. 
The average of 10 seeds to a legume would give a 
return of 620 for one. The remains of the plant and 
legumes, when the seeds are beaten out, make ex- 
eellent fodder for eattle. The grain is eaten in various 
ways. It is boiled whole, and eaten with salt and 
pepper. It is split, and becomes one of the Dals. 
It is parched, ground into flour, and made into balls 
with sugar and spices, and in this way forms food 
for travelling. In times of seareity a bread is made 
from it. It is also used in porridge or soup. The 
unripe legumes are eaten as a vegetable. 
It is one of the most extensively cultivated of 
Indian pulse, up to 3,500 feet on the hills, and it is 
considered nutritious and digestible. 
963. Phaseolus mungo. Nagpur. 
972. Phaseolus mungo. Nagpur. 
3,410,3,411. Phaseolus mungo. Kashmir. 
1,522. Phaseolus mungo. Madras. G. Bidie. 
3,597. Phaseolus mungo. Oude. 
3,575. Phaseolus mungo. Oude. 
3,603. Phaseolus mungo. Oude. 
3,569. Phaseolus mungo. Oude. 
3,609. Phaseolus mungo. Oude. 
7,907. Phaseolus mungo. Maunbhoom. 
7,825. Dal. Maunbhoom. 
5,914, 5,933, 5,936. Phaseolus mungo. Kattyawar. 
5,958. Phaseolus mungo. Baroda. 
6,034, 6,035. Phaseolus mungo. Dharwar. 
6,114. Phaseolus mungo. Surat. 
6,133. Phaseolus mungo. Ahmednugger. 
6,139, 6,159. Phaseolus mungo. Nassick. 
6,189. Phaseolus mungo. Beigaum. 
6,209. Phaseolus mungo. Tanna. 
6,257, 6,258. Phaseolus mungo. Khandeish. 
6,297. Phaseolus mungo. Kutch. 
382. Phaseolus mungo. Sindh. 
803. Phaseolus mungo. Berar. 
3,351. Phaseolus mungo. Amritsur. 
7,825. Moong Dal. Chittagong. 
It is uncertain to which speeies of Phaseolus the 
following should be referred. 
6,064. Karalay. Dharwar. 
6,129. Ahmednugger. 
6,214. Tanna. 
KIDNEY BEAN. 
Pliaseolus vulgaris. 
This, the common kidney bean, is cultivated in 
many parts of India, but not so extensively as some 
other speoies, although it is supposed to have been 
originally a native of this, or of a neighbouring 
country. 
3,357. Kidney beans. Amritsur. 
3,414. Kidney beans. Kashmir. 
B.—COFFEE. 
The coffee berry is being extensively eultivated in 
the highlands of Southern India, and large traets of 
country are available for the extension of its growth. 
The subjoined remarks on coffee-planting in Mysore 
are by Colonel Onslow :— 
According to the traditions of the country, the 
coffee plant was introduced in Mysore by a Mussulman 
pilgrim, named Baba Booden, who came from Arabia 
about 200 years ago, and took up his abode as a 
hermit in the uninhabited hills in the Nuggur Division 
named after him, and where he established a muth 
or College, which still exists, endowed by Government. 
It is said that he brought seven coffee benies from 
Mocha, which he planted near to his hermitage, 
about which there are now to be seen some very old 
coffee trees. However this may be, there is no doubt 
that the coffee plant has been known in that 
neighbourhood from time immemorial; but the berry 
has never come into general use among the people 
for a beverage. It is only of late years that the 
coffee trade of these districts has become of any 
magnitude, or that planting has been carried to any 
important extent. There is no record of either 
farther back than the year 1822, when the revenue 
was under contract. In the year 1837, when the 
country had been some years under British rule, the 
Raja’s authority having been suspended in 1832-3, 
the contract System was discontinued, and a duty of 
one mpee per maund of 28 lbs. was fixed. From that 
time the production of coffee and duty is duly re- 
corded. In 1843 the duty was reduced to half a 
rupee per maund on exportation, and in 1849 to a 
quarter of a rupee. Together with the reduetion of 
duties, regulations for taking up and holding coffee 
lands were adopted. At the same time prices con- 
tinued to rise. Native coffee sold in the country has 
risen from 1 rupee per maund of 28 lbs. to 6 and 8 
rupees. 
The encouragement thus given to coffee planters 
has resulted in the great extension of planting, the 
prosperity of the planters, and an increase of revenue 
to the state. 
Under the contract System the revenue averaged 
from 1822 to 1832, 4,270 rupees annually, and from 
1832 to 1837, 7,472 rupees annually. The yearly 
average during the next six years under the duty