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



as often of the viscous glue-like gum of an Eremurus 

 species. The two kinds of vessels are identified from each 

 other, in speaking of them, by adding the words charm, or 

 sarish, the former meaning a vessel prepared from skins, the 

 latter meaning from vegetable glue. 



Ok— 



The wooden supports of the roof of the kahitha, usually 

 made of willow, .Salix species, and bent by means of fixed 

 levers, or by the heat of fire, to the peculiar form required. 



Olea europaea, Linn. var. OLEACEiE. 



The Olive, zetun ; kao (Punjabi). After leaving Balu- 

 chistan I did not see this shrub or tree. In Baluchistan, 

 and in part of the Kuram Valley of Afghanistan, it is an 

 indigenous tree, but is often cultivated round shrines. 



Oleander — Nerium odorum. 

 Oleaster — 



According to Lindley and Moore is an El^.agnus ; 

 according to De Candolle {Origin of Cultivated Plants) is the 

 indigenous Olive, Olea europaea. 



Olibanum — the gum-resin of a Boswellia species. 



Olive — Olea europ^a. 



Omum Seed — the fruit of Carum copticum. 



Onion — the cultivated Allium Cepa. 



Opium — the inspissatedjuice of Papaver somniferum. 



Orange — the fruit of Citrus Aurantium. 



Orchis latifolia, Linn. Orchide^, and 

 Orchis laxiflora, Linn. Orchide^. 



Salep, our dictionary name for the tubers of Orchis 

 latifolia, which are palmately divided, and those of Orchis 

 LAXIFLORA, which are simple tuljers ; both are collected 

 under the name snlab, or sdlap, and form an export article of 

 very ancient repute to India, where amongst the natives 

 they have been long highly valued as a medicine for 

 strengthening a weakened constitution. The tubers, as met 

 with in the trade, are usually strung as beads on pieces of 



