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GENERAL INDEX

The Index contains also additional information.

Schweinfurth,

A-lo-yi-lo, 378 note 2, 511.

Abel-Rémusat, see Rémusat.

Abu Dulaf, 351.

Abu Mansur, 194, 209, 298, 301, 306, 307, 315, 320, 332, 350, 354, 364, 366, 369, 370, 373, 380, 383, 396, 399, 405, 425, 443, 446, 449, 453, 455, 459, 4$1,

483. 507, 509, 544-547, 549, 551, 553, 587, 589; Indian elements in pharmacology of, 580-585.

Abulfeda, 351.

Achundow, A. C., 194, 209, 253, 298, 301, 304, 306, 307, 315, 320, 327, 332, 350, 354, 364, 366, 367, 370, 373, 38o, 383, 396, 399, 402, 405, 425, 443, 446, 449, 453-455, 459, 478, 483, 507, 509, 544-547, 551, 580, 583-585, 587.

Aconite, 582.

Acorn, in Persia, 246.

Acosta, C., 356, 528, 550, 556, 591. Aden, almonds of, 405.

Aeschylus, 320.

Aetius, 586.

Africa, aloes of, 48o; date-palm introduced into eastern, 389 note I; ebony from, 485, 486; home of Ricinus, 404; home of sesame cultivation, 29o; home of water-melon, 438; myrrh from East, 461.

Ahlquist A., 577.

Ahmed Sibab Eddin, 561.

Ai-lao, 489.

Ain-i Akbari, 222, 282, 319, 502, 592. Ainslie, W., 241, 254, 266, 364, 367, 453,

484. 514, 585, 588.

Aitchison, 343.

Akbar, promoter of viticulture, 240. al-AkfanI, 566.

Albertus Magnus, 395 note 6, 411.

Alcohol, Chinese allusion to, 237.

Aleni, Giulio, S. J., 433, 527.

Alexander Romance, Chinese in, 570571; Ethiopic version of, 566.

Alexandria, 55o.

Alfalfa, cultivation of, in Fergana, 210; history of, 208-219; wild species of, in China, 217-218.- Alfalfa is cultivated in Arabia, being styled gadhicb on the South-Arabian coast. The Arabs also received the plant from Persia. In Egypt it became only known during the nineteenth century under the name "Arabian clover"

(bersim hegiasi); cf. G.

Z. Ethn., 1891, p. 658. Almeria, 492, 497- Almond, 193, 405-409. Altabas, altobas, term

derivation of, 492. Alum, 336, 474-475-

Amber, 521-523; of Samarkand, 251. Ammianus Marcellinus, 355, 548. Amomum, 481-482.

An-si, Chinese name of the dynasty of the Arsacides or Parthia, 187, 221, 457; cotton stuffs of, 488.

Anabasis, 223, 224.

Andamans, Memecylon on, 315. Anderson, J., 266, 286.

Andreas, 529.

Anglo-Saxons, cultivation of carrot by, 451, 452; cultivation of coriander by,

299.

Annam, pepper of, 375; Psoralea of, 484; styled Yavana, 212; Styrax benjoin of, 465.

Antimony, 509.

Ao-men éi lio, 434, 501.

Apricot, in India, 240, 408; transmitted from China to the west, 539.

Arabia, alleged home of fig-culture, 411; amber from, 522; costus of, 463; manna of, 346 note 3; myrrh from, 461; saffron from, 310; turmeric exported from India to, 314.

Arabs, activity in sugar-industry of, 377; date of, 390; gold-dust of, 510; grapes of, 223; grape-wine of, 239; importers of asbestos into China, boo; nux-vomica of, 449; rape-turnip of, 381; symbolism of pomegranate among, 287; trading brocades with Kirgiz, 488-489; viticulture of, 241; yüe no textiles of, 494.

Areca palm, 584.

Argentine, alfalfa in, 219.

Aristobulus, 239, 372.

Aristophanes, 208.

Aristotle, 411, 512.

Armenia, alfalfa in, 218; grape-wine in, 220; peach and apricot in, 539; rhubarb of, 547-

Armenian apple, Greek term for apricot, 203, 209.

Aromatics, 455-467.

Arrian, 455.

for brocades,

599