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



ported into Meshad, called shamhallt ; these may be one of 

 the forms of the Hermodactyl of the ancients. 



Heth — Baluchi for a goat. 



Htl — J.j.jt> — or lull — ^U> — the fruit of Elettakia 



Cardamomum. 

 Hil-i-hoza, or Ml-i-goza — »j>^^J^'^ — the skins of the 



Cardomum fruits. 

 Hill — ko, hoh ; hillock — kohcha. 

 Hill-carrots — Zozimia absinthifolia. 

 Hill-peach — Stocksia brahuica and Lycium 



barbarum. 

 Hlma — x«aA — firewood, fuel. 

 Hindudn a — ^Jl^j^Job — hindudnl — the water-melon , 



CiTRULLUS vulgaris. 



Hlng — k^i>ib — Hindustani for the gum-resin Asafoe- 



tida, Ferula fcetida. 

 Hollyhock — the flowers of the indigenous Althjea 



HoHENACKERi and of the cultivated Alth^a 



LAVATERi^FLORA resemble those of our garden 



cultivated plants extremely. 

 Honey — asdl, angabin, anjahm, mazj ; Kuram 



Valley, gahlna, haglna. 



Was a rare commodity over the most of the country I 

 traversed ; it is said to be imported into Herat from the forest 

 districts, and that bees were common in the forests of the tree 

 Honeysuckle, Loniceea nummularifolia. 



Honey-grass — Aristida plumosa. 



Honey -SUCKLE — Lonicera nummularifolia. 



Hop — the aggregate fruits of Humulus Lupulus. 



Hordeum Caput-Medusae, Benth. et Hool: fil. Gramine^. 

 Considered a valuable fodder grass. 



Hordeum hexastichum, Linn. Gramine^ 



Barley, jao-shirvn, or jow-shlrm. This species of barley, 

 with the huskless variety, are alone used as food by the 

 people. As this takes fully four months to ripen, it never 



