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The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 23

Composition

Composition.

The mean of five analyses:—
Per cent.
Moisture 10.79
Nitrogenous matter 20.08
Starchy matter 61.59
Fatty or oily matter 4.57
Mineral constituents (ash) 2.97
Total 100.00
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165.Chick pea, Cicer arietinum, Lucknow.
166.Chick pea, Cicer arietinum, Bengal.
167.Pigeon pea, Cajanus indicus, Madras.

This pea is a particular favourite. When husked and split, it constutes the kind of "dhol" which, when procurable, most commonly enters, withice, into the formation of the vegetable curry of the Hindoo.