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 Bajvu — ]ji^\j (Hind.) — spiked millet, Pennisetum 



SPICATUM. 



Bakas — ^jJL — bakis, the Box tree, Buxus sempee- 



VIRENS. 



Bakhla — hXssj — bakhll, the Field-bean, ViciA 



Faba. 

 Balag, balak — dCXj — a leaf. 

 Baland — SjXj — tall, lofty, great. 



Balanophora, species. Balanophore^. 



On the Ixinks of the Helinand was picked up a specimen 

 of Balanophora ; this a Baluchistan camel driver called lahu, 

 but this name is also applied by the Baluchis to an 

 Okobanche. 



Bdlchlr, bdlclwr — ^:^^b (Hind.) — the root-stock of 



Nardostachys Jatamansi. 

 Ballla — aXaXj — Belerie Myrobalans, the fruit of 



Terminalia belerica. 

 Ball — gol, gola, goll, gul, gull, bandaka. 

 Bcdouri, malourl — the Bramble, Rubus species. 



Balsamodendron Myrrha, Nees. Burserace^. 

 Yields the gum-resin Myrrh, mur, hoi. 



Balsamodendron Mukul, Hooh Burserace^. 

 This yields the (jugal of Baluchistan. 



Balsamodendron, species. Burseracb^. 



At Meshed I obtained a gum-resin, said to be imported, 

 called viidk-i-azrak, inukal-i-azrak, hol-kohl hui-kuhl ; this 

 was a form of Bdellium. The same names were, however, 

 applied to a fragrant gum-resin obtained at the roots of 

 spinous shrubs, in the dry desert parts of the country, and 

 which was unrecognisable, from the former. At Sha- 

 Ishmall alone, on the 8th October, I picked up, on the gravel 

 plains, a piece of gum-resin much resembling the Meshed 

 products, being highly fragrant. 



Bdhi — ;^11j — a cherry, a \vart, a mole. 



