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3.631. Dasee tobacco. Oude. 
3.632. Poorkee tobacco. Oude. 
3.633. Baraichee tobacco. Oude. 
988. Tobacco. Wardha. Nagpur. 
989. Tobacco. Hingunghat. Nagpur. 
116. Tobacco. Bangalore. 
GUNJA or BANG. 
Cannabis sativa. 
The dried leaves of the hemp plant are called 
“ Bhang,” and the flower tops with their resin, 
“ Ganjah.” The dried leaves are sometimes smoked 
alone or mixed with tobacco, but the more common 
form of taking bhang is to make it up with flour 
into a cake or a sweetmeat called “ Majun.” Eating 
this sweetmeat produces great excitement and mania 
in persons unaccustomed to their use. 
828. Ganjah. Berar. 
1,530-1. Ganjah. Dr. G. Bidie. Madras. 
3,929. Bhang. Oude. 
3,583. Ganjah. Oude. 
987. Ganjah. Nagpur. 
420. Bhang. Boobuc, Sind. 
7,915. Ganjah. Calcutta. 
7,917- Bhang. Calcutta. 
CHURRUS 
Is a gummy exudation from the flower heads 
of the hemp, and also from the seed when ripe. 
When the seed is gathered, the heads are rubhed 
with the hands, and thus the churrus is collected. 
In other places, men clothed with leather garments 
walk about among the hemp plants, brushing up 
against them. The gum resin adheres to the 
leathers, which are then taken off and carefully 
scraped. 
3,513. Churrus. Amritsur. 
3,617. Churrus. Oude. 
7,916. Churrus. Calcutta. 
ARECA or BETEL NUT. 
Areca catechu. 
The nuts of the Areca palm form the principal 
ingredient in the famous Oriental masticatory. These 
are gathered between August and November, re- 
moved from the husks in which they gi'ow, and are 
then boiled tili soft, are taken out, sliced, and dried 
in the sun. 
117, Areca nuts. Bangalore. 
1,526-7. Areca nuts. Dr. G. Bidie. Madras. 
6,072. Areca nuts. Dharwar. 
PAN. 
Chavica betel. 
The betel vine is cultivated for the sake of its 
leaves, which are employed, combined with Areca 
nut and chunam, or shell lime, as a masticatory. 
The leaf and nut when chewed discolour the teeth 
much, imparting to them a red colour; but natives 
assert that the gums become strengthened, and the 
teeth fixed by its use; the flavour is strongly astrin- 
gent and pungent. 
991. Betel leaves. Nagpur. 
E.—OIL-SEEDS. 
Some of the sources of oil in India are undoubted 
forest products; whilst others, and perhaps the 
majority, or the most important, are agricultural. 
It has not been attempted to separate them, as the 
International Jury recognised all together under this 
section. 
LINSEED. 
Linum usitatissimum. 
Large quantities of linseed are imported into 
Britain from India, The oil is obtained either by 
simple expression without the aid of heat, when it is 
of a pale yellow colour, or hy the application of a 
temperature of not less than 200° Fahr. In the 
latter case it is of a deep yellow or brownish colour 
and disagreeable odour. The oil prepared in India 
is inferior to that of Europe, from the fact that the 
Indian seeds being mixed with those of mustard, 
with which they are grown, the dying properties of 
the oil are impaired. Linseed contains one-fifth of 
its weight of mucilage (entirely resident in the testa) 
and one-sixth of its weight of fixed oil. 
8,824». Linseed. Rajshahye. 
860. Linseed. Indore. 
3,435. Linseed. Punjab. 
3,426. Linseed. Kangra. 
3,571,3,589. Linseed. Oude. 
6,273. Linseed. Khandeish. 
981, 982. Linseed. Nagpur. 
6,061. Linseed. Dharwar. 
2,761. Linseed. India Museum, London. 
MUSTARD. 
Sinapis sp. 
Several species, or at least distinct varieties, of 
Sinapis are cultivated throughout India for the sake 
of their oil, which is much esteemed for cookery, for 
medicine, and for anointing the person. 
6,271. Mustard. Khandeish. 
6,136. Mustard. Ahmednugger. 
3,579. Sinapis nigra. Oude. 
3,593. Sinapis glauca. Oude. 
6,088, 6,089, 6,092. Mustard. Aden. 
6,062. Mustard. Dharwar. 
850. Sinapis glauca. Indore. 
818. Sinapis ramosa. Berar. 
396. Sinapis ramosa. Syud Gool Mahomed, Shah 
of Schwan. 
3,430. Surson. Kangra. 
3.437. White mustard. Amritsur. 
3.438. Black mustard. Amritsur. 
978. Mustard. Nagpur. 
5,909. Mustard. Kattyawar. 
3,953. Mustard. Baroda. 
5,977. Mustard. Baroda. 
2,791. Sinapis dichotoma. India Museum, London. 
Allied to the foregoing are the following ;— 
3,416. Turnip seed. Kashmere. 
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