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V. Dye stuffs imported. 



Indigo, Catechu, Walnut bark, Turmeric, Zedoary, Saffron, 

 Aniline, Cochineal, Arsenic. 



VI. Local products employed in the dyer's art. 

 Tlie gaEs of Pistacia vera, and Barilla. 



VII. Products imported to be employed in the dyer's art. 



The galls of an Oak, Quercus species, Areca nuts, the seeds 

 of Areca Catechu, and Alum. 



VIII. Products exported to be employed in the dyer's art. 



The galls of Pistacia vera. The galled pods of Prosopis 

 Stephaniana ; the riad and fruit of the Pomegranate, Punica 

 Granatum. 



Earth — soil, ydghl, zamln, khdJc. 



Earth-xuts — ydghl-shdk, the tubers of Carum 



species. 

 Ebony — the wood of a Diospyros species. 

 Egg of the domestic fowl, tuklim-i-murgh, khdla. 

 Egg-plaxt — Brixjal, Solanum ^Ielongexa. 

 Egypt — misar ; Egyptian — misari, misri. 

 Ejik-ohharasi. The Turkoman term for Ferula 



OOPODA. 



Elseagnus hortensis, Bieh. Elj^agnace^. 



The Eheagnus. This is the Oleaster of Lindley, but by 

 De Candolle the indigenous olive, Olca Euroj^artyis spoken of 

 as the Oleaster, therefore it is better to drop the word Oleaster 

 altogether, especially in Afghanistan, iSrc, where the two trees 

 may both be met with in a wild state, and it would be 

 impossible to know which was being spoken about if this 

 S}Tionym were used. Sinjad, sinjid, sanjid, sin jit, sanjit ; 

 Eastern Afghanistan, jigda. An indigenous tree, or large 

 shrub, common in the hills at an altitude of 3000 feet, near 

 running streams. Much cultivated in orchards for its fruit, 

 which to a European palate does not seem worth eating, to 

 me resembling in the mouth a mixture of dry cotton wool 

 and ashes. The natives approve of it, and carry it with 



