COLOCASIA AN7'IQUORUM. Schott. Arum colocasia, Linn. I A. Zgyptiacum, Bumph.
There are five. varieties of this plant,— re. Goori kuchoo, BENG. Ashoo kuchoo, BENG. Shema kalengu, . Tam. I Chcma, Chama clumpa, Chema, Chamakura, TEL. I TEL.
These are cultivated in most parts of /ndia and Burma. Small offshoots from the tubers are, like potatoes, planted in well-manured friable rich soil. The roots of the Goori kuchoo are taken up in about nine months, and those ef Ashoo kuchoo after seven months.
7. Kato kuchoo. The roots send out nnmerons runners, but do not swell into tubers like the cultivated varieties. The leaves and petioles are used as greens.
Z. Char kuchoo and t. Bun kuchoo are not cultivated, and seldom eaten. ' In Burma, a and p 'supply the. place .of potatoes.
Kalkas; Kur, . . ARAB. Kaladi, . . MALAY.
Rab; Alu, . . . BEAL Ghuyan; Kachalu, PANJ. Goori Kuchoo, . . BENG. I Kuchoo; Kuchwas,SAN.SH. Ashoo „ . . „ I Gahala; Tadala, . SINGH.
Kala, Char „ . . „ Habarala, . . . „ Bun „ . . „ Taro, Kopeh, of S. SEAS. Peing, . . . . BERM. Kasauri ; Gagli of SUTLEJ. Egyptian Arum, . ENG. Sima-Kalangoo, . Tam. Yam,Eddo,Coco,Cocco, „ Charnakuru; Chama, TEL. Arwi, . . . . HIND.
This is cultivated in many parts of India, and up to 6500 feet in the Panjab Himalaya, and to 7600 in Chamba and Kulu. It is a plant of Greece, Asia Minor, Syria, and the East Indies. Two varieties of it are cultivated near Calcutta, the Goon and Ashoo kuchoo ; and three varieties, Kala, Char, and Bun kuchoo, are found wild. The small offsets of the Goon. and Ashoo are planted about the beginning of the rains in 3fay or June in a well-laboured friable rich soil. The roots of' Ashoo are taken up about the close of the year, and those of Goon in February or March.— Drs. Voigt, &zit.; Bom4ay Products; Stewart.