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Talk — t^Ois — Mica. 



Talk'h — ^JiJ — talaJch — bitter ; a name applied to 



SOPHOEA PACHYC'ARPA. 



Talkh-ak — i»Cs\Xj — bitterish ; the name applied to 



AmmothamisTJS Lehmaxxi ; and to the Colo- 



cynth, CiTPvULLVS Colocyxthis. 

 Tcdkhd — LsxIj — parched grain, pulverized, and mixed 



with water into a paste : a prepared food for 



travellino- with. 



o 



Tcdl'han — the flour prepared from dried Mulberries. 

 Tamdhu, tamhcllcu, tanhdku — y^^'J — tumclhu — 



tobacco, the plant and preparation of the leaves 



of XicoTiANA sj^ecies. 

 Tamarisk, Tamarix species. 



The various species of Tamaeix are the commonest shrubs 

 and Icfw trees found to occur from Quetta to Balamorghab, 

 and from Herat to Meshad, up to an altitude of 3000 feet. 

 None of the wood, even though large enough, is considered 

 as good for timber. It is used for fuel, and the smaller 

 branches whilst still green are largely employed in basket- 

 work, coarse or tine, as occasion may necessitate. These 

 shrubs are all freely browsed upon by most animals, and 

 form part of the daily food of camels, which, however, upon 

 being restricted to a diet alone of Tamarisk, soon become ill. 

 On the young shoots of these shrubs is deposited much saline 

 matter, and in the south of Persia on the species Ta^iaeix 

 GALLICA, YAK. MAXIFERA, IS deposited a manna called gaz-i- 

 shakar. In Baluchistan and Afghanistan gaz is the usual 

 term for any Tamarisk, on the Helmand kiri. The White 

 Tamarisk of Europeans, the td-gaz, more properly tdr-gaz of 

 Baluchistan, is not a Tamarisk at all, but is a Chenopodiaceous 

 plant, Haloxylon Ammodendeox, which, owing to its habit 

 of growth being hke that of Tamarisks generally, is con- 

 sidered as such by the natives, and the Europeans have 

 taken up their name. 



Tamarix articulata, V'lhl Tamariscine^. 

 The mound Tamarisk, Ihora-gaz ; Baluchi, Tcirt. This 

 forms an apparently indigenous forest on the Helmand river ; 



