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FENUGREEK 447
is .anbalid, anbalile in Ispahan, and .amliz in Shiraz, which appears in India as gamli. As is well known, the plant occurs wild in Kashmir, the Panjâ,b, and in the upper Gangetic plain, and is cultivated in many parts of India, particularly in the higher inland provinces. The Sanskrit term is methi, methikd, or methini.' In Greek it is ßovK pas (" ox-horn"),2 Middle Greek xoûXire' (from the Arabic), Neo-Greek rnXv; Latin
relit foenum graecum.3 According to A. DE CANDOLLE,4 the species is wild
(besides the Panjâ,b and Kashmir) in the deserts of Mesopotamia and of Persia, and in Asia Minor. JOHN FRYER' enumerates it among the products of Persia.'
Another West-Asiatic plant introduced by the Arabs into China under the
Sung is 1 ya-pu-lu, first mentioned by you Mi ~,j , (1230-1320) as a
poisonous plant growing several thousand li west from the countries of the Mohammedans (Kwei sin tsa Si, sü tsi A, p. 38, ed. of Pai hai; and Z`i ya ran tsa 1'ao, Ch. A, p. 40 b, ed. of Yüe ya raft ts`un Su). This name is based on Arabic yabruh or `abruh (Persian jabrüh), the mandragora or mandrake. This subject has been discussed by me in detail in a monograph "La Mandragore" (in French), T`oung Pao, 1917, pp. 1-30.
des simples, Vol. I, p. 443. SCHLIMMER (Terminologie, p. 547) remarks, "L'infusion de la semence est un remède favori des médecins indigènes dans les blennorhagies urethriques chroniques."
1 It occurs, for instance, as a condiment in an Indian tale of King Vikramaditya
Pi (A. WEBER, Abh. Berl. Akad., 1877, p. 67).
2 Hippocrates; Theophrastus, Hist. plant., IV. iv, io; or macs: ibid., III. xvi, 2; Dioscorides, II, 124.
3 Pliny, xxly, 120.
4 Origin of Cultivated Plants, p. 112.
5 New Account of East India and Persia, Vol. II, p. 311.
6 For further information see FLUCKIGER and HANBURY, Pharmacographia, Q. 172.
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