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Rh Jambu ayěr mawar, the Rosewater Jambu. Jambosa Vulgaris, a fragrant variety and good eating.

Jambu bol, has large red fruits like apples. It is the Jambosa Macrophylla, from its large leaves and is the best of the whole tribe.

Jambu Dipa, a name given to India in ancient lore or tradition, but the natives now adays cannot tell to where it originally belonged. A place in the Priangěr Regencies is still so called. Clough at page 206 gives- Jambu Dwipaya, from Jambu the Rose apple, and Dwipaya an island or country. According to the geography of the Hindus, the name of the Central division of the universe or the known world; but according to the Buddhists it is the continent of India, or more strictly India proper, or India within the Ganges, it being generally reckoned by them as the scene of the labours of Buddha. (Dwipa not Dwipaya is the Scr. name for island.)

Jambu Médé, Anacardium Occidentale, of the family of Terebintaceæ. The Cashew apple. Also called Kaju.

Jambu Siki, the seedy Jambu; the guava. Psidium pomiferum, of the family of Myrtaceæ.

Jambul, a tuft of hair, a topping; a tuft of feathers. In shaving a lad's head, a tuft is often left on the back part of the head, and this is called Jambul. (Mal. Jav. id.)

Jami, the Paddy straw after the grain has been beaten off. See Jërami. Rumpak jami, harvest home, literally treading the straw under foot, as natives do when reaping. Crop time.

Jami, a humah made a second year consecutively. When a piece of aboriginal forest is cut down, a second year's crop can mostly be taken from it. Probably called Jamí from the paddy straw of the former crop, which has to be cleared away, before a second planting can take place.

Jampang, a district near the Palabuan Ratu in the Priangěr Regencies, derives its name from Si Jampang, a character in ancient Javanese history, See Raffles vol 2. P. 103.

Jampang, name of a variety of grass.

Jampang pahit, name of a variety of bitter grass.

Jampé, an invocation; a prayer muttered over any person, being or thing in order to produce some beneficial result. An incantation. The native method of administering medicine which is always done by, at the same time, muttering a prayer or incantation either over the medicine or over the person who is ill.
 * Mr. Friederich considers that Jampé is derived from Japya, in Sanscrit, what is to be muttered, from the root Jap to mutter prayers.
 * Japa, Clough 205 an offering to a demon, the muttering of prayers at offerings to demons; repeating in audibly charms, the names of gods and demons, on certain religious occasions: the practice of Hindu religious mendicants to count in silence the beads of a rosary.
 * The original word is thus much corrupted on Java, an m having been inserted in