32 Brigade- Surgeon J. E. T. Aitchison'.s Notes on Products 



Camel-Thorn — Alhagi (jamelorum. 

 Camel-Turnips, the root-stocks of Crambe cordifolia. 

 Camlet — hantk — 



Is an excellent warm soft cloth. The finest qualities are of 

 the natural colour of the camel's hair ; the ordinary cloth, to 

 make it api>ear all of one colour, is dyed with walnut bark. 



Camellia theifera, Griff. Terxstrcemiace^. 

 (Thea chinensis, Liim.) 



The Tea plant. Tea, elicl, dim. Tea is imported in 

 immense quantities from all directions, even from Bokhara and 

 Russia, of course the largest importation takes place from 

 Southern Persia and India. The Persians are very fond of 

 the beverage, and partake of it at any hour during the day. 

 The introduction of the tea tray is always an excuse for social 

 intercourse. Tea is to be found for sale in the smallest ham- 

 let, and prepared tea, ready for drinking, is offered to the 

 traveller at nearly every bazaar. 



Candles — sham. 



Tallow candles, made of mutton fat, are manufactured in 

 each household as required. A kind of candle, malnk, is made 

 by removing the covering of Castor-oil seeds, then crushing 

 the kernels along with raw cotton, until the oil is expressed, 

 then rolling the oil-laden cotton into the form required. Of 

 these usually only enough is made to last the day's consump- 

 tion. These are chiefly used by the women whilst cooking, 

 to enable them to see into their great caldrons and other 

 cooking pots. 



Cannabis sativa, Linii. TJeticace^. 



Indian hemp, hang, hlidng. This plant is certainly not 

 indigenous to the part of the country I went over, I only met 

 with it on one occasion in Persia, where it was cultivated in the 

 garden of a Hindoo. It is, however, well known to the natives 

 as being cultivated in Turkistan for its resinous exudation 

 chars, its diied leaves hhmig, seeds tuMm-i -bhang, oil of seeds 

 roghan-i-chars, and its intoxicant oil majun. An informant 

 who had lived a good deal in Turkistan, said that Indian hemp 

 was a field crop, sown annually ; the shrub when in flower was 



