172 Brigade- Surgeon J. E. T. Aitchison's Notes on Prodiids 



seedless usually green in colour, sometimes red ; when green 

 they are known as sdbz, and when red as surkh. Manaka 

 are like our ordinary raisins, of a red colour, and contain 

 seeds. Zlriskh are like currants or corinths, they require 

 to be distinguished from the dried fruit of Berberis, and 

 hence are called shtrm, in contradistinction to the Berberis 

 fruit, which is called zlrishJc-tursh. Herat and its vicinity 

 yield immense quantities of raisins, which are exported 

 to India, some to Turkistan. From raisins the natives 

 prepare a strong spirit, aralc. ; this is locally consumed. 



Hand — Ur. — beautiful. 



Randu, randiik — the name in Baluchistan for 



Salsola arbuscula. 

 Rmig — ijj^j — colour, dye-stuff. 

 Rape — Brassica campestris, Linn., sub-species 



NAPUS. 



Ranj — ^3 — colic, twisting of the bowels, grief. 



Raphanus sativus, Linn. Crucifbr^. 



The Eadish, turh, timrh ; Hindustani, mull. A very large 

 white-rooted variety is commonly cultivated in all gardens, 

 and is much valued as a vegetable when cooked. This, when 

 boiled (the usual way of cooking this vegetable by the Pathans 

 and Afghans), gives forth the most horrid and unbearable 

 stench to a European nostril, but these people seem to 

 appreciate it. 



Rasan — ^^^^ — rasmdn — ^^U;^^ — razmdn, rlsmdn — 



rope, cord, string, thread. 

 Rasmdn-dlafl — rope made from the grass, Erianthus 



Ravenna. 

 Rawlsh — jiij^. — a sprout, a shoot. 

 Raz — -; — riz — grapes, poison. 

 Re, rl — ajj — a salt that effloresces from the soil. 

 Red — surkh, Idl. 

 Red-pepper — Capsicum species. 

 Reeds — ndl, ndl — Arundo Donax, Phragmites 



COMMUNIS, Erianthus Ravenna, and Erianthus 



species. 



