24 Brigade-Surgeon J. E. T. Aitchison's Nuks on Products 



Baz — y — hoz — -jyi — huz, hurz, had, the goat in 



general, or the female goat in particular. 

 Baz-anjlr — [the goat's fig]. The Castor-oil plant, 



RiCINUS COMMUNIS. 



Bazhciz — -j^,y, — Mace, the aril of the Nutmeg, 



Myristica fragrans. 

 Bdellium — a gum-resin, yielded by Balsamoden- 



DRON species. 

 Be, or hi — ^j — without. 

 Be-dhdn — ^^,UlAJ — [without water], a desert. 

 Bean — the Field -bean, Vicia Faba ; the French -bean, 



Phaseolus vulgaris. 

 Bed — *xxj — a willow, Salix species. 

 Bedal — an indigenous Salix. 

 Bed-anjlr — [Willow -fig]. The Castor-oil plant, Rici- 



Nus communis. 

 Bed-i-mushk — [Musk-willow], Salix Caprea ? 

 Bed-i-sia — [Black-willow], Salix alba. 

 Bed-i-surkh — [Red willow], Salix songarica. 

 Beda — the hay of the Medick clover. Lucerne, 



Medicago sativa. 

 Bedcim — the Almond, Prunus Amygdalus. 

 Bee. Any bee or wasp is called zamhur. 



Taking the country over which I traversed as a whole, 

 there were no honey bees, either in a natural state or domes- 

 ticated. The only hive I came across was in the remains of 

 an old tower at Karez Ilias, where they were in the act of 

 swarming. Bees are said to be common in the woods at 

 Sarakt in the Koh-baba range, and also in Kohistan. At 

 Herat they are said to be domesticated. The natives say 

 that the tree in which they usually hive is the Honeysuckle, 

 LoNiCERA NUMMULARIFOLIA, which is generally found hollow. 

 A Bumble, or Humble bee, with a very long proboscis, was 

 common in the Badghis, and a very small species, Antho- 

 PHORA ATROALBA (?),'^ was frequently found in an unconscious 

 condition in the sheathing stipules of the Asafoetida plant. 



" Zoology of the Afghan Delimitation Commission," Transactions of the 

 Limican Society of Lomlon, vol. v. part 3, 1889. 



