8 Brigade-Surgeon J. E. T. Ailchison's Notc^ on Products 



cultivated land it is a troublesome weed, where whilst the 

 corn is standing it is invisible, but upon the crop being cut 

 it is seen to occur in dense masses. After all other shrubs 

 and plants have dried up owing to the autumnal hot winds, 

 this still remains of a vivid green, and is eagerly sought for 

 as fodder by camels, donkeys, and goats. During certain 

 seasons, and in special districts, when its fruit is beginning 

 to ripen, the whole shrub becomes covered with tears of glass- 

 like beads, the largest the size of a pea ; this is the manna 

 produced on this shrub, called in these parts tar-avjahrn, 

 which is very extensively collected, both for local consump- 

 tion and exportation. 



Alk, alak — jlc — dlk, cdah, ilk — JJl — a resin, gum- 

 resin, or niastich, Olibanum or Frankincense, 

 Spikenard, Nardostacliys Jatamansi. 



Alk-ul-lahdn — ^Vk\ ^1 jTl — [the milk resin], Olibanum 

 or Frankincense, the gum-refein of Boswellia 

 species. 



Alk-undaru, alk-kundaru, alk-kundar — [the resin, a 

 remedy for bleeding], Olibanum or Frankincense, 

 the gum -resin of Boswellia species. 



Alkali, see Barilla. 



Allium cepa, Linn. Liliace^. 



The Onion, plclz, met with cultivated in all gardens, as a 

 vegetable is much relished by the natives. 



Allium M'Leanii, Baker. Liliace^. 



The bulbs of this species, with no doubt that of others, are 

 collected in southern Afghanistan and exported to India to 

 be sold under the name of hadsha-sdlab, or amhar-kand, as a 

 substitute for Oechis tubers. See Annals of Botany, vol. iii., 

 No. X., May 1889, page 149; Trans. Bot.Soc.Edin.,xYi\. 434. 



Allium sativum, Linn. Liliace.e. 

 Garlic, sir ; lahsan (Hind). Is cultivated in all gardens. 



Allium, species. Liliace^. 



A red dye, for dyeing silk thread with, is said to be 

 obtained from a species of Allium. I regret that at the time 



