of Western Afghanistan and North-Eastern Persia. Gl 



Valeriana Wallichiaxa. The root-stocks, sambal-ultib, 



mahkak. 

 Strychnos Nux-vomica. Nux-vomica seed, hachola. 

 Cordia Myxa. The fruit Sebesten, sapistdn. 

 Eheum species. The root-stock of a medicinal rhubarb from 



Central Asia, rewand-i-clwii. 

 CiNNAMOMUM Cassia. Cinnamon bark, ddr-chlnl. 

 Croton Tiglium. Croton seeds, Itab-dihnaluk. 

 RrciNUS COMMUNIS. Castor-oil, rogltaii-i-hazanjlr. 

 PiNUS species. The resin, zuft, ilk. 



Curcuma Zedoaria. The rhizomes, Zedoary, jidivdi\ kachur. 

 Iris species. The rhizomes. Orris-root, oi'isd. 

 Acorus calamus. The rhizomes of tlie sweet flag, agar, Lack. 

 Smilax China, Smilas root, clwh-clnnl. 



Under Narcotics not employed as drugs — Cannabis sativa. 



Under Condiments — Piper nigrum. 



Minerals and their salts imported as drugs — 



Amber, Mica, Sulphate of Copper, Alum, Arsenic. 



Animal produce, imported as drugs — 

 Cuttle-bone, Musk. 



Dub — i-_»^ti — of India, the grass Cynodon Dactylon. 

 Dukhtar, or dohhtar — -jl^d — a daughter, a girl. 

 Dum — *43 — or dumb — »-*^t) — the tail. 

 Dum-i-gosdla [Calfs-tail]. The plant Apocynum 



VENETUM. 



Dum-i-roba [Fox-tail]. The plant Apocynum vene- 



TUM. 



Dung — sargln, sarkln ; dried dung of oxen, pdchak, 

 konda. 



Over the portion of Afghanistan and Persia that I 

 traversed, the dung of all cattle, when it can be so employed, 

 is applied as manure to land, and only under exceptional 

 circumstances is it used as fuel. That of sheep and goats 

 is converted by destructive distillation into a tar, or pitch, 

 sla-roghan, which is used as a local application to protect the 

 sores on cattle from flies. 



Durum — the Punjab salt-range name for the indige- 

 nous Pomegranate, Punica Granatum. 



