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



JuNULE, jungal — a thicket ; a country overrun with 

 wood, reeds, or long grass. 



Juniperus excelsa, Bieh. Conifers. 



The ti'ee juniper — drcha, ors, ors, orsa, doras, ardij. A large 

 tree, not tall, but massive in bulk ; occurring on the ridges 

 and the northern slopes of the Paropamisus range, and in 

 Khorasan, at an altitude of 3000 feet and upwards. The 

 ordinary large specimens measured from 15 to 20 feet in 

 circumference, branching close to the ground, and did not 

 exceed from 20 to 25 feet in height ; the lowest branches 

 spreading out almost at right angles, and nearly as large in 

 circumference as the tree itself. Usually the stem of the tree 

 was much larger at the point of throwing ofi" its branches 

 than below it. The wood is employed for beams for roofing, it 

 being considered as proof against the inroads of white ants. 

 At Kala-Naratu there are beams still to the fore, in excellent 

 preservation, which are supposed to have been put up with 

 the building some 200 years ago. The best charcoal for 

 iron and goldsmiths' work is made from this wood, and it 

 is employed in the manufacture of many farm implements, as 

 harrows and such like. The leaves are used as incense in 

 Khorasan. 



K — S. The letter k added to a word in Persian gives 



the diminutive. 

 Ka — ^^i — hi — xlS" — straw, hay, grass, the crushed 



straw of the various cereals ; hhusa of Hindustan. 

 Kabitka — 



The houses, huts, or tents of the nomads of Turkistan, 

 made of a wooden frame-work covered with felt. The whole 

 of the woodwork is usually of willow, except the axle on 

 the top of the hut which receives the roof supports ; this is, 

 if of hard wood, usually of Mulberry. 



Kahuda — si)^-*-/ — the Lombardy Poplar, Populus 



NIGRA. 



Kachola — ^Xsai* — kachula — a term ajoplied to the 

 seeds of Strychnos Nux-vomica, and to the 

 shrub and fruit of Datura Stramonium. 



