10 Brigade-Surgeon J. E. T. Aitchison's Noks on Prodvxits 



Alu — -^Jl — a plum, the fruit of Prunus species. In 



Hindustani a potato. 

 Alu-bcdu — >lb^l — [mole-like plum]. 



The bitter Cherry, fruit of PiiUNUS Cerasus, var. 



Alu-hokhdra — [the Bokhara plum]. 



By this is usually understood a dried plum or prune, 

 fruit of a Prunus species ; but this term is also applied to 

 the fresh fruit. 



Alucha — *r^_jJl — [a little plum], the fruit of several 

 species of Prunus. 



Alu-sla — Aj^'-^Jl — [black-plum], A large, deep 

 purple, almost black-coloured plum, a very excel- 

 lent grafted fruit ; Prunus species. 



Alum — zama, zuma, zamcJi, khourl. 



Imported in some quantities to this country to be 

 employed in dyeing, also in medicine. It is said to be 

 manufactured in Kohistan, but that the greatest bulk of it 

 is imported through Persia from Bombay. 



Amaranth. The plant Amarantus paniculatus. 



Amarantus paniculatus, Linn. Amarantace.e. 



The Amaranth, taj-kliarus, occurs only as a cultivated 

 plant, usually seen thinly scattered through melon and 

 tobacco fields, both the red and yellow flowered varieties. 

 I never met with what I should consider a regular crop of 

 the plant, but it occurred through fields rather as if the 

 natives held, in superstitious veneration, the necessity of 

 growing a few of these plants sparsely spread through their 

 fields. The seed is eaten cooked, and the leaves employed 

 as a pot-herb. 



Amharud — -^jy-^^^ — a pear, the fruit of Pyrus species. 



Ambai'-hand, probably a contraction for amharud- 

 kand [the pear-shaped testicle]. The bulbs of 

 an Allium species, sold as a Salep in Bombay. 

 The word kand here corresponding exactly to 

 the Arabic word scilab or fox's testicle as applied 

 to the tubers of an Orchis. 



