1 £1 17s. 6d.
2
Probably brought to Ahmadäbäd from Tibet, but Ball had seen a statement
as to its occurrence in Käthiäwär, which, however, requires
confirmation. (Vide, Economic Geology of India, p. 498.) There
is no evidence of its discovery in Käthiäwär, but it has been found
mixed with common salt in certain lakes in the Panjäb (Watt, Economic Dict.,i. 505).
3 Shellac, produced on certain trees by the Coccus lacca.
4
Saffron consists of the stigmas of Crocus sativus, L., which was an
article of trade at the time the Periplus (ch. 24) was written, and has
been cultivated in the East ever since. All the Kashmir saffron is
produced at the village of Pampur, where it causes violent headaches
among the people (Elliot & Dowson, Hist., vi. 304 f., 375 ; Aïn-i-Akbari, ii. 357).
5
The fruit of Cuminum cyminum, L., a small annual indigenous to the
Upper Nile regions, spread by cultivation to Arabia, India, China,
&c. (Hanbury and Fluekiger, Pharmacographia, 295.)
6 Perhaps harlä, the black myrobolan.
' The gum resin (olibanum) of Boswellia carterii, Endl. See Barbosa, ed. Dames, 1918, vol. i, p. 65 f.
• The precise nature of the trees yielding myrrh is somewhat doubtful.
