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



Diospyros Lotus, Linn. Ecenace^e. 



The Afghan name for the tree and its fruit, idndok. I did 

 not meet with either the tree or its fruit on this journey, 

 but it is indigenous in the Caspian provinces of Persia. 



Diospyros, ^j'^npn. EBENACEiE. 



The wood of a species of Diospykos is Ebony, dhnus. This 

 is said to be employed in the manufacture of combs, if so, it 

 must be imported. 



Dishes — 



The ordinary dishes and platters of the agriculturalist 

 and nomads are made of wood, called tdhak and hls-i-chohl ; 

 the largest and best are made from Walnut wood, those in 

 ordinary use usually of willow, or Celtis. A dish in which 

 women keep their prepared cotton for spinning is called kolak. 



Dock, Docken — Rumex species. 



Dog — sag. 



Dog-rose — sag-zahr — Rosa Beggeriana. 



Dog-snake — sag-mar — a species of lizzard, Ophis- 



AURUS APUS. 



Dogh — <t ^:i — 1 :)utter milk. 



Dolichos Lubia, Forslc. Leguminos^e. 

 Yields the Lubia-bean, but the lohia or liibia of Persia is 

 Phaseolus vulgaeis. 



Dorema Ammoniacum, Don. llMBELLiFERiE. 



This is the plant that yields the gum-resin Ammoniacum, 

 it is called kandal-kerna, and the gum-resin kandal or 

 ushak. The plant about the time the fruit is forming is 

 attacked by a boring beetle, the result is that at each spot of 

 injury there exudes a thick, viscid, almost pure white juice ; 

 this gradually dries owing to exposure, and by the adherence 

 of numerous adjacent exudations forms into irregular-shaped 

 blocks of all sizes, which frequently surround and enclose 

 the fruit and smaller twigs. Whilst fresh, or if the 

 Ammoniacum has been carefully protected from the light, it 

 is of a greyish opalescent colour, but if exposed to the light 



