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ntury, tells us that the two kinds of Asafcetida are produced 
two different plants, the black and the white Anjuddén, and 
the later plant produces the kind known as tyib (good). 
r Muhammad Mumin of Shiraz, who wrote in the 17th cen- 
y, remarks that the Asafoetida known as tyib has a reddish 
lour, and is produced by a plant vulgarly known as Kulah- 
par (cap-leaf), that known as muntin has a disagreeable odour 
ike a leek, and is called at Ispahan Angusht-gandah, “stink 
nger.” Aitchison, who travelled in Eastern Persia, and the 
ghbouring districts of Beluchistan and Afghanistan, with the 
Afghan Boundary Delimitation Commission (1884—85) found 
moniacum as Kandal-kema. The primary meaning of this 
ord in Persian is a sleeve, and there can be no doubt that the 
Arabs and their followers is the drag of European com- 
, the produce of Ferula fetida, Regel, and not that of 
alliacea, Boiss., which produces the Hing of India. In 
ibing the medicinal properties of the drug, the Mahometan 
sicians closely follow Dioscorides. 
5 The flowering stems of the Asafcetida plants are eaten as a 
fegetable, as stated by Pliny. Aitchison notices their use 
this purpose, and Dr. Peters forwarded to one of us the 
ering stem of I’, fotida, Regel, which he had purchased 
the bazar at Quetta. 
Guibourt (1850) was the first European writer to point out 
difference between the Asafcetida of India known as Hing 
that of the European Pharmacopeias which is called in 
aHingra. Vigier, Gommes-résines des Ombelliféres (1869 
Hing Asafeetida nauséeuse. We are indebted to - 
eshir Mehrban, a merchant of Yezd, for most of the 
- particulars regarding the ~ : 
