[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Dark Ages](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages) › [Mughals (1526–1857)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal) › [Bābur (1526–1530)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur) › [Bāburnāma](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama) › [The Babur-nama in English (A. S. Beveridge)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge) › 932.12.7 # The Memoirs of Bābur 932.12.7 The Bābur-nāma in English (A. S. Beveridge) 932.12.7 - **Language:** English ### [932.12.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.932.12.7) The (H.) \_kanīr\_ (\_Nerium odorum\_, the oleander)\[1892\] is another. It grows both red and white. Like the peach-flower, it is five petalled. It is like the peach-bloom (in colour?), but opens 14 or 15 flowers from one place, so that seen from a distance, they look like one great flower. The oleander-bush is taller than the rose-bush. The red oleander has a sort of scent, faint and agreeable. (Like the \_jāsūn\_,) it also blooms well and profusely in the \[Sidenote: Fol. 288.\] rains, and it also is had through most of the year. The (H.) (\_kīūrā\_) (\_Pandanus odoratissimus\_, the screw-pine) is another.\[1893\] It has a very agreeable perfume.\[1894\] Musk has the defect of being dry; this may be called moist musk—a very agreeable perfume. The tree's singular appearance notwithstanding, it has flowers perhaps 1-1/2 to 2 \_qārīsh\_ (13-1/2 to 18 inches) long. It has long leaves having the character of the reed (P.) \_gharau\_\[1895\] and having spines. Of these leaves, while pressed together bud-like, the outer ones are the greener and more spiny; the inner ones are soft and white. In amongst these inner leaves grow things like what belongs to the middle of a flower, and from these things comes the excellent perfume. When the tree first comes up not yet shewing any trunk, it is like the bush (\_būta\_) of the male-reed,\[1896\] but with wider and more spiny leaves. What serves it for a trunk is very shapeless, its roots remaining shewn. - [Previous: 932.12.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.932.12.6) - [Next: 932.12.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.932.12.8) - [Up: 932.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.932.12) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.932.12.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.932.12.7) · Pramāṇa