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vated iu gardens for the fruit, whicli is used as a vegetable. 

 The kernels of the seeds are ground "into a flour, and eaten 

 as a relish with oil ; the seeds are given entire as a purgative. 



Lukh — ^^ — the Bulrush, Typha angustata. 

 Liding — on the Helmaud, a name for Artemisia 



SCOPARIA. 



Lutra, species. 



The Otter — sag-abi — is said to exist in the Hari-rud, and 

 in the Bala-morghab rivers ; this requires confirmation. 



Lycium barbarum, Linn. Solaxace^. 



Khdr-a-zU, khdr-a-zir ; in Baluchistan, koh-tor ; the fruit, 

 zll. A large trailing shrub, remarkable in early spring for 

 the brilliancy of its young grass-green foliage, which it loses 

 in early autumn, and then the shrub is seen to be covered 

 with spines, and its general colouring is an ugly grey ; but 

 at this time, if laden with berries, which is often the case, the 

 bright scarlet of its berries causes it to become an object of 

 attraction in the landscape, causing it to vie with Stocksia 

 BRAHUICA, as to which shall be applied the name loh-tor, [the 

 beloved of the mountain] the hill peach. Children eat the 

 fruit, and apparently relish it. At the encampment of Zaru 

 we lost fifteen camels and a goat, said to have been poisoned 

 from eating the berries of this bush ; their deaths must have 

 been due to some other cause, as I subsequently frequently 

 saw camels and goats browsing on this shrub, and eating the 

 fruit without any after bad effects. 



Md — sU — the moon, ■ 



Mace — the aril of the Nutmeg, Myristica fragrans. 



Mach, Tndch — the Baluchi name for the date palm, 



Phcexix dactilifera. 

 Mdda — sjU — the female. 

 Mdda-hachur — j^2i\^sjl-o — mdda-kachid, the round 



tubers of Curcuma Zedoaria. 

 Madder — the plant and dye stuff of Rubia tinc- 



TORUM. 



Maghz — ^i-< — the brain, fat, marrow, kernel, pith ; 



