London : Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longman · leaf 203
t, in the representation, inChinese pictures, of Amydas or Fumbositting upon a throne: the throne isdesigned from the flower of this plant.The part of the plant which bearsthe nuts (fig. 64.) is of the figure ofan inverted cone that is broader thanhigh, and has a number of cells, eachwith one end… … Domestic Notices : — E)wland. \ 83 to plant. Each cell includes one nut, of about the size of a hazel nut, whosekernel is reputed to be the Egyptian bean which Pythagoras forbade hisfollowers to eat. The plant now common in India and South China has beenlong deemed there one of the sacred plants.…
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