90 Mr. Roye on the Lycium of Dioscorides. 
rusunjun ; and that this kind, in the language of Misr, or Egypt, is called kho- 
lan. The Persian name feel-zuhreh is translated in our best Persian and Arabic 
Dictionary Boz-thorn, the literal translation of zv£exe»ów. The Persian, being 
compounded of two words, feel, an elephant, and zuhr, a yellow flower, may 
refer to the brightness or conspicuous nature of the flower, in the same way 
that a turkey is called feel-moorgh, the elephant-fowl. 
The description appended to the synonyms of Aooziz is evidently a trans- 
lation of that of the Avzsov of Dioscorides, as it is said to be “an extract of the 
leaves and seed of a thorny plant, about three cubits in height, of which the 
leaves are like those of box, and the fruit like that of black pepper," &c. 
The mode of manufacturing it is then described, as well as the composition of 
an adulterated kind, which for many purposes must be superior as a medicine 
to the original article, being composed of myrrh, aloes, saffron, syrup and 
decoction of myrtle-leaves, nearly as the present Pilulze Aloes cum Myrrha are 
made. This will explain a passage in all accounts of Lycium, in which one 
kind is said to have been inflammable, and the other not so; though the 
Persian writers appear to have reversed the matter, in making the vegetable 
extract inflammable, and the resinous compound not so. 
The author of the Mukhzun-ool- Udwieh, in an article on the Indian hooziz, 
mentions that the best kind came from Nuggur-kote, in the neighbourhood of 
Lahore, and was supposed to be made from the fresh juice of Myrobolans. To 
this it may be objected, that as species of Terminalia are found all over India, 
it is not likely that an article so much in use should only be manufactured in the 
neighbourhood of a hill-fort, which it is known serves as a commercial entrepót 
for exchanging the produce of the hills with that of the plains. The same author 
then alludes to another writer, who mentions having obtained his information 
- from a Hindoo physician of repute, that rusot is the inspissated extract made 
from a decoction of the fresh wood of dar-huld, or the turmeric-coloured wood. 
The Sanscrit and Hindee name dar-huld is called zur-chob and zurd-chob 
in Persian, and in Arabic has a name signifying “ the turmeric-coloured root : 
it is said to be an Indian tree, of which the wood is yellow, = from which 
rusot is said to be made. 
On inquiring in the shops of the druggists in the bazars of India, I every- 
where learnt that both the wood dar-huld and the extract rusot were im- 
