'File 11/4 Diaries and reports: Mr Dowson's notes on Smail - dates, etc' [‎86r] (173/262)

the ATETHIB, with the babble of water falling from terrace to‘ \
terrace, and the no less welcorae sound of the coohing pots
being offloaaed, who would change with a Geneva delegate, or
even with the President of a S. and T conductors* mess? In the
shade, .iucundi acti labores .
The pink flowered •leoader, HABAE, is common in the
widy&n. Its poisonous nature is recognised. It was probably
this bush, which caused Alexander’s beast of burden, which ate
of it, during the terrible march thru Makran "to aie of epilepsy
accompanied with foaming at the mouth." LIPxAH, the word
understood from the Atslantic to the Pusht-i-huh, is here
unknown.
Datura ,probably stramonium ,.uAJtA.KHAM, is to be found
more or less wild in gardens. Its stupifying and poisonous nature
is known.
The colocynth, HAEDEAL, its promise of sweet
refreshment as delusive as the snow on the Island of Burmuz,
is to be found. The natives know of its purgative qualities,
though do not appear to|use it in thair pharmacopoeia.
PLATS XXIII. SIBAR on tight, SHARISB on left.
A zizynhus , probably Snina-Christi , was fairly common
but commoner in the Batanah, the wood is good xelkx.A mong
other uses, it is employed as spindles in the water hoist wheels.
SARAH is another tree, with very reduced leaves, some
what after the style of a oarkinsonia .
Of the additional trees, which were fo^nd at^Sib ,
the .most remarkable was Kidhah, which surely must have oeen
Dracaena draco . Though the waiter has met this tree_before but
once, the memory of the avenue at Alger, bordered with this
extraordinarily dishotomous^y branching monocot is too vivid
to permit of mistake. It was said that no dragon’s blood was
collected; but that a perfume for the head of woman was made
from the flowers.
MAAvYARAH, also found at Sib, 'was a bright green,
leafless, tree of tangled phylioclades* a phylanthus ?
A common bush, growing wild in the hedges between
the gardens of the Batanah, was SHAHAR. The large, hairy
leaves are a light, sage green, the flowers star-like, mauve
and white, and the broken stem exudes a white sap, like an
euphorbia.
On the more or less salt plain of the BataDah, HIRXL
flourished. This low-growing, stinking, salt bush looks
like a suaeda, perhaps S. monoica .