[401]. Khulanján. Sic all editions; but Khalanj, or Khaulanj adj. Khalanji, a tree with a strong-smelling wood which held in hand as a chaplet acts as perfume, as is probably intended. In Span. Arabic it is the Erica-wood. The “Muhit” tells us that is a tree parcel yellow and red growing in parts of India and China, its leaf is that of the Tamarisk (Tarfá); its flower is coloured red, yellow and white; it bears a grain like mustard-seed (Khardal) and of its wood they make porringers. Hence the poet sings:—
Yut ’amu ’l-shahdu fí ’l-jifáni, wa yuska ✿ Labanu ’l-Bukhti fi Kusá’i ’l-Khalanji:
Honey’s served to them in platters for food; ✿ Camels’ milk in bowls of the Khalanj wood.
The pl. Khalánij is used by Himyán bin Kaháfah in this “bayt”:—
Hattá izá má qazati ’l-Hawáijá ✿ Wa malaat Halába-há ’l-Khalánijá:
Until she had done every work of hers ✿ And with sweet milk had filled the porringers.
[402]. In text Al-Shá’ir Al-Walahán, vol. iii. [226].
[403]. The orange I have said is the growth of India and the golden apples of the Hesperides were not oranges but probably golden nuggets. Captain Rolleston (Globe, Feb. 5, ’84, on “Morocco-Lixus”) identifies the Garden with the mouth of the Lixus River while M. Antichan would transfer it to the hideous and unwholesome Bissagos Archipelago.
[404]. Arab. “Ikyán,” the living gold which is supposed to grow in the ground.
[405]. For the Kubbád or Captain Shaddock’s fruit see vol. ii. [310], where it is misprinted Kubád.