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



Southern Persia, to be employed in medicine, and are for- 

 warded in quantity to Turkistan. 



Coriandrum sativum, Lirm. VuBEhhiFERju. 

 The Coriander, hashnlz, cultivated in gardens. 



CoRiNTHS, or Currants, a small black grape dried, the 

 fruit of a variety of Vitis vinifera. 



Cotoneaster nummularia, Fisch. et Mey. RosACEiE. 



Sla-clioh, gab-cMr, gab-shlr, (/cqj-chlr, gapshir. Is a common 

 shrub on the Sia-koh and Safed-koh ranges, at an elevation of 

 3000 feet and upwards. In certain localities it is met with 

 forming gregarious copses, as on the Erdewan pass, where it 

 grows to a size almost permitting of its being considered a tree. 

 Its wood is highly valued next to that of Zizyphus vulgaris for 

 supplying handles to agricultural implements, for staves, and 

 owing to its great elasticity makes the best loops or pullies, 

 chamhara, of any wood. It yields in certain seasons, from 

 the surface of its smaller branches, a manna called shlr-khisht ; 

 this manna is largely collected both for local use, being much 

 eaten by the people either along with their food in its 

 natural condition, or converted into some form of sweetmeat, 

 as well as for exportation chiefly to Afghanistan proper 

 and India. 



Cotton — the fibre of the plant Gossypium 



HERBACEUM. 



Cotton-gin — halaji. 



Cousinia, species. CoMPosiTJi. 

 Herbarium specimen No. 365, May 1, 1885. 



Pulush. The leaves of this plant are covered on the 

 under surface with a cottony tomentum ; owing to this 

 structure the leaf makes a good tinder. 



Crambe cordifolia, Stev. CRuciFERiE. 



The Camel-turnip, idtrdn, tdterdn, tetrdn, taturdn, tatrang. 

 A very handsome perennial, the annual shoots springing up 

 in numerous clusters from the large underground root-stock. 

 The annual shoots and foliage make splendid forage for all 



