of Western Afrjlianistan and North-Eastcrn Persia. 13 



Anzarut — CLy^yy^ — anzerut, anzrucl, the drug Sar- 

 COCOLLA ; also the resin of a pine from India. 



Ao — ^^ — water. 



Ao-laruf — Cljj)^^! — the whey that separates from 

 the curd of sour butter milk or Ox3'gal. The 

 same name is also applied to a preparation made 

 with the whey and liquorice, which is a common 

 household remedy. 



Aol, mil, diced — the shrubs Prunus eburnea and 

 Pruxus brahuicus. 



Aoras — ^j^j^S — the tree Juniper, Juxiperus excelsa. 



Ao-tarnah — a Turkoman term for Euphorbia 

 celadexia. 



Apium graveolens, Linn. Umbellifer^. 



Celery, a common herb on the sides of water-courses, near 

 the water. 



Apocynum venetum, Linn. Apocyxace^s:. 



Dum-i-roha, dum-i-gosdla, gcio-gosh; Jcuncldr (Turkomani). — 

 A perennial shrub, with an underground creeping stem that 

 throws up annual shoots from four to five feet in height ; 

 growing in a wet clay soil, in brackish water. 



From the fibre of the annual shoots the natives make 

 twine and rope ; and a tribe of Turkomans, named Kazak, 

 who live at Kala, east of Bokhara, make a cloth. This cloth 

 is here known by the term hatdn; but it must be remembered 

 that this term by the Persians is usually applied to linen 

 made from flax. The bark of the underground stem is 

 employed in tanning and preparing skins which are intended 

 for holding water. The local native names allude to the 

 appearance of the ripe seed, whereas the Turkoman name 

 signifies that it is a fibre-producing shrub, as this name is 

 by them applied to other plants also that yield fibres. 



The late Colonel Prejvalski, the celebrated Eussian 

 traveller, mentions a cloth being made at Lob-nor from the 

 fibre of an Asclepiad ; and Sir Douglas Forsyth, in his 

 Yarkand report, mentions a cloth called Luf ; both of these 

 I believe to be the produce of the above fibre, as the plant 



