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in the vicinity of Herat has the character of producing these 

 ill-effects, from the great prevalence of this weed in the 

 fields. When encamped at Tirpul, in May 1885, we had 

 several cases of this poisoning amongst our camp followers. 

 The best treatment to pursue under the circumstances is to 

 relieve the stomach of all the food by a good hot-water 

 emetic, and then clean the intestines by a larger dose of 

 castor oil. In most of the cases vomiting always came on 

 naturally. As far as I can judge, the poison only seems to 

 affect some people. I treated several cases of the same 

 poisoning in the Kuram Valley. 



Lonicera nummularifolia, Jauh. et Spach. Caprifoliace^. 



The Honeysuckle, halpa, hulfa ; the fruit, dcina-chaka. A 

 common shrub in all the hilly districts, at an altitude above 

 3000 feet ; in certain localities it forms forests on the 

 mountain sides, and slopes that are free of rocks. The trees 

 are few and distant from each other, like the trees in an 

 English park ; they do not average much above 20 feet 

 in height, and the boll of the largest I measured was 5 feet 

 in circumference at 6 feet from the ground. Considering 

 the plant is usually a shrub, I believe such a tree as that I 

 measured must have been of a very great age. The wood is 

 highly valued for the manufacture of gun-rests ixtc, being 

 very light, and yet elastic and tough. The points of these 

 rests are often mounted with the points of the horns of the 

 Gazelle, or with steel. The timber seems to run hollow, as 

 bees are said to commonly hive in this tree. Children are 

 very fond of eating the berries. 



LuBiA-BEAN — the bean of Phaseolus vulgaris in 



these parts, and of Dolichos Lubia in Egypt, 

 Luhia — Ijjj.! — the French or Haricot Bean, Phaseolus 



VULGARIS. 



Lucerne — Medick, Medicago sativa. 

 Luf- — a cloth made from the fibre of a plant in 

 YarkancI, probably the fibre of Apocynum 



VENETUM. 

 LUFFA ACUTANGULA, Roxl). CuCURBITACE^. 



The plant, turl ; the seeds, tuTchm-i-turl. Commonly culti- 



