Title | Illustrations to Oriental memoirs |
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Publisher | Richard Bentley (Firm) |
Date | 1835 |
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Language | English |
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Original Item Extent | 24 pages; 93 leaves; 32 cm |
Original Item Location | DS 412 .F67 1835 |
Original Item URL | http://library.uh.edu/record=b1797776~S11 |
Digital Collection | Exotic Impressions: Views of Foreign Lands |
Digital Collection URL | http://digital.lib.uh.edu/collection/exotic |
Repository | Kenneth Franzheim II Rare Books Room, William R. Jenkins Architecture and Art Library, University of Houston Libraries |
Repository URL | http://info.lib.uh.edu/about/campus-libraries-collections/william-r-jenkins-architecture-art-library |
Use and Reproduction | No Copyright - United States |
Identifier | exotic_201304_010 |
Title | Page 15 |
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File Name | exotic_201304_010_016.jpg |
Transcript | P,'~, OU41 ,f- .x EXPLANATION OF THE PLATES. 15 delineated is common in every town and village throughout Hindostan ; perfectly familiar in the houses and gardens of natives and Europeans : the stripes are sometimes of a darker brown. The tamarind leaves and blossoms are of the usual standard; the fruit is shorter than is generally seen, on account of the size of the plate. XLIX. * y^ The Mawahw Tree of Guzerat. This valuable tree is indigenous to many parts of India, and is fully described in Vol. II. P. 61. L. V^ i ^x Grains in Guzerat. Chena, Buntee, Codra, Natchnee. The early grains were all drawn from nature, at the commencement of the different harvests in the Dhuboy Purgunna. The Linnean names and specific distinctions are mentioned in the work: their varied tints and rich appearance add much to the beauty of the luxuriant plains of Guzerat- These grains are all reaped in what is called the first harvest, commencing soon after the periodical rains are over. LI. Grains in Guzerat. Juarree, Bahjeree, Batty, or Rice. These latter grains, whose Linnean distinctions appear in the work, are more nutritive and valuable than those in the preceding plate. They were all drawn and coloured from nature ; and when fully ripe, clothe the fertile purgunnas with the most luxuriant and varied beauty, in a province deservedly named the Paradise of Nations. LII. The Wedded Banian Tree. S This tree is so called in Hindostan, where the seed of the Palmyra (boras- susflabelliformis) has been dropped by a bird, or scattered by the wind into the decaying trunk of a burr, or banian tree, {Ficus indica.) The trees thus united form a peculiar contrast, especially when the Palmyra soars loftily above the spreading branches and picturesque trunks of the burr. The |