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a rubefacient, to rub tlieir bodies down with after taking a 

 Turkish bath. In this part of the country, in lieu of these, 

 the nodes on the roots of Eremostachys labiosa and another 

 species are collected and sent on to Turkistan. Curcuma 

 roots are employed a little in native niiedicine, and as a 

 condiment. 



Curdled Milk — 



Sweet milk curdled- is Jclshi ; if curdled with rennet, and 

 the curd compressed, this is cheese, panlr. Sour milk, or 

 butter milk curdled, is mas, mast ; the curd of this compressed 

 is oxygal, mdstdwa, karut. 



Currants, or Corinths, the dried fruit of a variety of 



the Vine, Vitis vinifera. 

 Cuttle-bone, the internal calcareous skeleton of 



Sepia species. 



Cynanchum acutum, Linn. Asclepiade^. 



MCtT-pcch. A common climber in the Tamarix jungles on 

 the Hari-rud. The fruit of this if eaten is considered 

 poisonous. 



Cynanchum, ? species. Asclepiade.e. 



Called by the Afghans f&ch-ak, and by the Baluchis plr- 

 wathi. A tall climber, occurring on the islands and low 

 land on the banks of the Helmand river, covering the trees 

 of the Euphratic Poplar and Tamarix with its masses of 

 heavy foliage. The foliage makes excellent fodder for 

 camels and goats. The fruit was collected in an unripe 

 green state and eaten by the Baluchis, who call it shangar. 



Cynara Cardunculus, Linn. Composite. 



The Cardoon, employed as a vegetable, cultivated in 

 gardens. 



Cynara Scolymus, Linn. Composite. 



The Artichoke. Is a cultivated plant in gardens in Persia. 

 De Candolle, in his " Origin of Cultivated Plants, " from 

 Ainslie's Materia Mcdica, gives the Persian name for this 



