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ems "s xs for the flowers, which are daily collected and made over to the 
istiller for the manufaeture of rose-water. I never saw more t 
ао ore than half a dozen bushes 
Rosa LUTEA, Mill.; Boiss. Fl. Or. ii. p. 671. 
Hari-rud valley : 245, April 16, May 12, 1885. Native name Gul-i-ranan zeba. 
Cultivated in orchards and gardens; the flower is yellow and single, and not briar- 
scented. It is the Persian yellow rose of our gardens. 
Rosa МОЗСНАТА, Mill.; Hook. f. Fl. British India, ii. p. 367. 
Hari-rud valley: 749, July 30, 1885. Cultivated in the vicinity of shrines in Afghan- 
istan, and also in Persia. 
ROSA ANSERINJEFOLIA, Boiss. Fl. Or. ii. p. 677. 
Badghis: 504, May 18, 1885. Not common, on damp rocks near Sim-koh, at an 
altitude of 3200 feet.  Briar-scented ; flowers almost pure white. 
RosA BEGGERIANA, Schrenk; Crépin, Prim. Monogr. Hos. іп Bull. бос. Bot. Belg. xiv. 
18 (reprint, p. 312), et var. y. Lehmanniana, Crépin, 4. с. p. 20. 
Mount Do-shakh : 1061, August 5, 1885. Specimens marked “А,” locality not recorded. 
Common at 4000 feet altitude near running streams and in shade. This is remarkable 
for the peduncles bearing the ripe fruit being fleshy and of the same colour as the fruit. 
Var. y. LEHMANNIANA. 
Badghis: 352, May 1, 1885; Khorasan, 657, June 16, 1885. Common, on the sides 
of running streams, above 3000 feet altitude. 
Рувоз CYDONIA, Linn.— Cydonia vulgaris, Pers. ; Boiss. Fl. Or. ii. p. 656. : 
Hari-rud valley: 246, April 4, 1885. Native name Bhihi. The Quince is commonly 
cultivated in orchards. "Тһе fruit is usually very large and of fine quality from grafted 
trees. | 
PYRUS COMMUNIS, Linn.; Boiss. Fl. Or. ii. р. 658. 
Hari-rud valley : 248, April 16, 1885. The Pear; native name Amrud. Cultivated 
in orchards ; this form bears a small pear called Amrud; it is raised by slips or seed, 
but is not grafted. There is also a variety raised always by grafting on this, which 
large fruit, for which the native name is Май. This is the fruit that is so largely 
exported from other parts of Afghanistan into India. In the Badghis I came upon a 
small forest of Pear-trees which I thought might have been the remains of an old 
orchard, but I was informed that this was not the case. The tree is well known as a 
wild one. It is called Amrucha from the small fruit it bears, this being a diminutive 
ground into a flour, and mixed with ordinary wheat 
bears a 
for Amrud. The fruit is dried, 
flour to increase its bulk. 
Pyrus Marus, Linn.—Malus communis, Desf. ; Boiss. Fl. Or. ii. p. 656. 
Hari-rud valley; 258, April 16, 1885. The Apple; native name Seb. A cultivated 
tree in orchards, said not to be grafted. In the hills around Kushk and above Bala- 
