STARCH.
Abgoon, . . . . ARAB. Arnido, . . . .
Kau BERM. Kanji, Garus, . MALAY.
Mien-fen, . . CHIN. Niehashta, . . . PERS.
Stivelsc, . . . DAN. Gomma do trigo, . PoaT.
Amidon, . . . FR., SP. Krkhmal, . . Rus.
Amidan, Starke, . GER. Starkelse, . . . Syr.
Ganji, . . . . HIND. Godambe mao, . . TAIL The starch of commerce is procured generally from wheat, rice, and potatoes. The test kind is white, soft, friable, and easily reduced to powder. It is insoluble in cold water and alcohol, but readily affords a gelatinous solution in warm water, which is largely employed for stiffening articles of wearing apparel, and for dressing some descriptions of goods after weaving. It is also much employed by calico printers and others. It can be obtained front a great variety of plants, aud ninny of the most productive of it are natives of the tropical countries in the east. Starch it one of the constituent parts in all mealy farina ceous seeds, fruits, roots, and other parts of plants The following are the chief fecula or starch-likc substances of the east, and may be considered separately also under the heads Arrowroot, Food and Maranta :— Arrowroot, West . Maranta arundinacoa.
Arrowroot, East . Maranta ramosissima, Curcuma angustifolia, and other ep. of Curcuma. Arrowroot, Mergui, . . Tacca pinuatifida.
Tapioca, Jatroplia MAnihot.
Cassava meal, . . . Do.
I'lantain meal, . . . Musa paradislaca.
Sago, Singapore, . . Arcoga saccharifera.
Sago, Malabar, . . . Caryota arena.
Sago meal, Pluenis farinifcra.
Salep, Habenaria, etc.
!iambi= seeds, . . Nelumbium speclostun.
Singhara seeds, . . . Trapa bispinosa.
Yams, . Dioscorea (ran sp.).
Telinga potato, . . Amorphophallus campauu• laths.
Sweet potato, . . . Ilatatas Ceylon Moss, Plocaria candida.
Kotee kaiangoo, . . . Aponogeton monostachyon Farina of l'arkia biglobosa.
Chara kelangoo, . . . Plectranthus tuberoann.
Champoo, Caladium nymphifoliurn.
Sago, Indian, Cycas rovoluta, C. circina lis, species of Sagus.