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ExTKACTS ; of Glycyrrhiza glabra — Liquorice, 

 of Berberis vulgaris — ibrdn. 

 of Acacia Catechu — Catechu. 



False anzarut — the glue-like inspissated juice of 



MiCRORHYXCHUS SPIXOSUS. 



Fa ndak — tinder. 



Fai' — -jS — -far — beauty, light, splendour. 



Farcing, frang — a term applied to the pot herbs 



Atriplex Flabellum and Atriplex Moxeta. 

 Farangi — ,J^j^ — European, English. 

 Farosh, fa rush — Jl^jS — a seller. 



Ferula— 



The name for all the great Umbelliferse, but more par- 

 ticularly for the Ferulae, seems to be Jccma, I'dma, Jcamai, as 

 a generic term. 



Ferula foetida, Regel. UiiBELLiFER^. 



The Asafoetida plant, angoza-Tcema, anguza-kema, khurne- 

 kema, kJwra-kema. The gum-resin Asafoetida anguza, by the 

 traders and in India it is called king. The following is my de- 

 scription of the Asafoetida plant in a paper on " Some Plants 

 of Afghanistan and their Medicinal Products," Pharmaceutical 

 Journal and Transactions, December 11, 1886, p. 465 : — 



" In early spring great cabbage-Uke heads are to be seen 

 distributed at intervals amongst the Asafoetida plants. Their 

 pecuhar forms represent the primary stage of the flower 

 heads, enclosed and completely covered up by the large 

 sheathing stipules of the leaves. In a few days these heads 

 become transformed into the semblance of a cauliflower ; 

 from this period the stem bearing the inflorescence rapidly 

 shoots upwards to a height of from four to five feet, its 

 proportions being singularly massive and pillar-like. From 

 a general calculation I found that only one out of a 

 hundred plants bore a flowering stem. If you ask a native 

 what plant this is, pointing to a flower-bearing one, he will 

 tell you that it is 'khunu keyna,' and that it has nothing to 

 do with the plants that yield Asafoetida. He will take out 



