16 Jhiuade-Surucon J. E. T. Aitchison's Notes on ProdiLcts 



these plants grow where little else can possibly exist, the arid 

 desert land surrounding some villages is made more desert 

 and barren by their removal. Camels and donkeys thrive on 

 this fodder. Horses that are unaccustomed to this diet 

 apparently prefer anything else, but the horses of the country 

 seem to relisli and fatten upon it. 



Artemisia scoparia, Wahid, et Kituih. C'omposit.t:. 



Occurred in quantity along the banks of the Helmand, 

 luling, gurcis. 



Artemisia, species. Composite. 



The drug afsantm consists of the flower heads of some 

 species of Aetemisia, and so does the medicine hdrang-hola. 



Artichoke — Cynara Scolymus. 

 Artichoke, Jerusalem — Helianthus tuberosu.s. 

 Am — ^j] — -Hindustani for a peach, the fruit of 

 Prunus persica. 



Arum Griffithii, Schott. Aroide^. 



Fhandr. So named, as is also Helicopiiyllum crassi- 

 FOLIUM, from the likeness of their spathes to the hood of a 

 cobra. 



Arundo Donax, L)7i7i. Gramine^e. 



Hal, ndi. This reed grows in great luxuriance all over 

 the country, wherever there is water, and a clump is to be 

 found cultivated in many gardens for the requirements of the 

 household. The young leaves make good fodder, and the 

 old ones bedding for cattle. The reeds are employed in all 

 sorts of basketwork, whether in the construction of houses or 

 to carry material in, for screens, as tubing for pipes, flutes, 

 holders of gunpowder, and such like. The term ndl is 

 applied more correctly to Pheagmites and Erianthus, the 

 reeds of which are smaller than those of Aeundo. 



Arzan — ^j^l — Millet, Panicum miliaceum. 

 Arzdn — ^\^j\ — cheap, of small value. 

 Asafcetida — the gum resin of Ferula fcetida. 

 Asafcetida-scented — the herb Teucrium serratum. 



