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it however lasts too short a time, owing to the hot winds, as 

 they at once put an end to all its beauty. "Wherever it is 

 grown, or in however small a quantity, the llowers are daily 

 collected by the owners of each garden, and handed over to 

 the distiller, who manufactures from them rose-water, gulab. 

 Eose-water is a luxury which the very poorest of the Persian 

 ladies and dandies cannot do without ; in almost the smallest 

 village it is to be procured. 



Rosa lutea, Mill. Rosacea. 



The single-flowered Yellow Eose, the Persian Yellow Eose 

 of our gardens, gul-i-rdnd, gid-i-mndn-zehd, A cultivated 

 shrub in gardens. 



Rosa moschata, Mill. Kosacej^. 



G-id-nastaran, or gid-nastran. The climbing White Eose 

 of the Punjab Himalaya, so well known to the dwellers at 

 Muree and Simla. On this journey, I only met with it as 

 a cultivated plant in the vicinity of shrines. 



Rose — the flower and shrub of Rosa species, gul, 

 gulab, zahr, sag-zahr, kalura, gul-i-rdml, 

 gul-nastran. 



Rose -water — gulab . 



Manufactured in every hamlet from the flowers of EosA 

 DAMASCEXA, the Damask Eose. From the larger towns, as 

 ]\Ieshad and Herat, there may be some trade in the 

 commodity. 



Rdz — j^j — the day. 



Roz-gavd — ^^ipj — roj-gard — [the day turning], the 

 sun ; turning of the day ; applied to certain 

 flowers ; Euphorbia cheirolepis. 



Ruba, roba — U, — robbing, stealing, carrying off. 



Rubefacient — the tubers of the roots of Ere.mo- 

 STACHYS labiosa, and other species, and the 

 tubers of Curcuma longa are so employed. 



Rubia tinctorum, Litm. Eubiace.e. 



Madder, roclan, rodang ; the Peshawur and Indian trade 

 terms, manjlth, majltJi, rnajlt. This valuable dye-stuff is 



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