The Institutes of Akbar 65.2.4

65.2.4

4. The Mungrá resembles the Rái bél. It is larger, but inferior in smell. It has more than a hundred petals; the plant grows to a large tree. 5. The Champah flower has a conical shape, of the size of a finger, and consists of ten petals and more, lying in folds one above the other. It has several stamens. The tree looks graceful, and resembles in leaf and trunk the nut tree. It flowers after seven years. 6. The Kéthí has the form of spindle, of the size of a quarter of a yard, with twelve or more petals. Its smell is delicate and fragrant. It bears flowers in six or seven years. 7. The Kéwrah resembles the preceding, but is more than twice as big. The petals have thorns. As they grow on different places, they are not all equal. In the midst of the flower, there is a small branch with honey-coloured threads, not without smell. The flower smells even after it is withered. Hence people put it into clothes, when the smell remains for a long time. The stem of the tree is above four yards high; the leaves are like those of the maize, only longer, and triangular, with three thorns in each corner. It flowers from the fourth year. Every year they put new earth round about the roots. The plant is chiefly found in the Dek’han, Gujrát, Málwah, and Bahár.