& 
70 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [March, 1909. 
Ibn Sina would surely mean the plant of the Levant when 
writing. Persia and Turkestan in his time would probably get 
their supplies of it thence, 7.¢., from Damascus vid Mesopotamia, 
and then some might pass on eastwards to India through the 
caravan routes coming to Multan and Peshawar. 
ear these routes other plants have been substituted for 
Bombay Presidency it goes by the name of Alphajan rather 
more than by the name of Astukhudus. This word Alphajan 
is apparently derived, either as Dymock, Warder, and Hooper 
tell us, from the Portuguese name of Lavandula Spica! ‘‘ Alfaze- 
a, or more likely from the name ‘‘ Alichrin,’’ which Clusius 
applied, as we have seen, to the very plant itself. 
The exact source of this supply which Bombay gets is at 
present unknown to me: I regret that I have not as yet been 
able to trace it out. 
supply probably came from Syria over land ; and there is still a 
belief current in Shiraz that Astukhudus comes thence. 
T had a eply in answer to a letter which I addressed 
to Dr. Heckel of Marseilles, telling me that the Isle of Hyéres 
does not now send the drug into the market. 
° : at about 34 annas per lb. There is an 
extraordin crated ees the Paton price of 1848 and 
1 Vide Brotero, Flora Lusitanica, 1804, i., p- 171. 
