54 Jirigade-Surgeon J. E. T. Aiteliisoii'.s Noiea on Products 



Ddr — -j\d — a tree, a beam, wood ; in composition, 



like to, possessing tlie properties of. 

 Ddr-clilnl — ^x^lj — or ddl-chini — [Chinese stick]. 



Cinnamon, the bark of Cinnamomum Cassia 

 Darakht — C>.<,jd — a tree. 

 DaraklU-i-stdn — ^^U**a^j — [a place of trees], a 



forest. 

 Dai'ld — Lj;J — a sea, river, waters. 

 Darnel-grass — Lolium temulentum. 

 Ddru — ^J\d — a medicine, a remedy. 

 Ddru-farosh — J-sy^J^^ — \j^ vendor of medicines], a 



druo-gist. 

 Ddru-garin — c_/^j5;b — or ddrue-garm — r/^tfjjjlj — 



black-pepper, Piper nigrum ; or spices in 



general. 

 Ddru, ddrim, durum — in the Punjab, the indigenous 



shrub of PuNiCA Granatum, and its fruit. 

 Dasht — Ci^d — a plain, a desert. 

 DashU — ^JCiit) — wild, indigenous, uncultivated. 

 Dast — Ck^o — the hand. 

 Dasta — ^a«.l} — the handle, as of an axe, spade, or 



whip. 

 Date-palm — the tree Phcenix dactylifera, mdch ; 



the fruit, dates, kJiurind. 



Datura Stramonium, Linn. Solanace^. 



The Thorn-apple, kachola ; dhatura, datura (Hind.), the 

 fruit goz-i-kana. This plant only occurred, I believe, as an 

 introduced weed ; the natives knew it to be poisonous, but 

 applied to it the usual name for the seed of Strychnos, 

 kachola, or the Hindustani term dhatura ; upon closer inquiry 

 I found some druggists gave the Persian name for the fruit. 

 At page 16, in the Botany of the Afghan Delimitation 

 Commission, I have by error alluded to Datura alba. 



Daucus Carota, Linn. Umbellifer^e. 



The Carrot, zardak ; sabzl (Turkomani). Greatly valued 

 as a vegetable, and mucli cultivated, to be found in all 



