9(S Brigade-Surgeon J. E. T. Aitchison's Notes on Products 



Hair — Goat's liair, pat ; the cloth, 'p<^i'^', kurk, and 



kurg. Camel's hair, and the fabric Camlet, 



harak. 

 Halajl — (pronounced aldjl)- — ^5^1^.=* — -a cotton gin. 

 Hid — ^U — or Ml — yj^ — the" fruit of Elettaria 



Cardamomum. 

 Hal'da — *Xj,Xi> — hallle — the fruit of Terminalia 



Chebula, Chebulic Myrobalans. 



Haloxylon Ammodendron, Bunge. CHENOPODiACBiE. 



Called the white Tamarisk by Europeans. Ta, tar, tar, 

 ta-gaz, tdrgaz, tagli, tdkh, tcik, tugh ; saxaol by the Turkomans, 

 and zak * by the Mongols. A common tree of no great size, 

 found from the dry sandy deserts of Baluchistan to the 

 valley of the Hari-rud and Khorasan. One tree that I 

 measured at Tomanagha, and with the largest wood of its 

 kind that I had come across, measured at two feet from the 

 ground twelve feet in circumference. They average in height 

 about twelve feet, few ever reach eighteen feet. The wood 

 is very heavy, it is difficult to cut, but makes splendid fuel. 

 From the green wood in Herat the natives prepare a dye, 

 {rang-i-)shak]ia-i-tdgh, much employed to give a green colour. 

 The wood is often burnt to yield Barilla, but the plant is 

 held in greatest value for the fodder its fresh shoots yield, 

 especially to camels in the desert tracts, where they can live 

 upon it alone for months without suffering ; this is not the 

 case when they have to feed on the Tamarix. 



Hamdm — -I*-. — a place for bathing within a 



building, the term is usually applied to a 



Turkish bath. 

 Hdmun — 4i,^-«l-* — a plain, a piece of level ground. 



On the Helmand it means an expanse of 



water in which a jungle grows. 

 Haoma — Ephedra pachyclada. 

 Har — -j^ — every, all. A noxious grain amongst 



corn. 

 Har -hang — ^_SXij^ — [the intoxicating grain]. Darnel 



grass, LOLIUM temulentum. 

 * London to Bokhara, by Col. A. Le Messurier, R.E., 1889, p. 133. 



