Vanaspati: Plants and Plant-Life as in Indian Treatises and Traditions c5.s7.136

c5.s7.136

(4) Next the *Oshadhis* (in the narrower sense), herbaceous plants bearing fruits with or without flowers and dying or withering away after fructification. Some instances of *Kanda-śāka* (tubers, rhizomes, corms) are noticed, *e.g.* *Palāndu* (the onion, पलाण्डु सुवन्दकः), the *Laśuna* (garlic, महाकन्दः ), etc. But the graminaceae enumerated in the *Vaiśyavarga* are the chief instances of the *Oshadhis*—plants that die after fructification. These are cultivated *Oshadhis* but their affinities with the next class, the grasses (*Triṇas*) are also noted (*e.g.* धान्यं व्रीहि स्तम्बकरी । स्तम्बो गुच्छस्तृणादीनाम् । तृणधान्यानि नीवाराः, etc.).