Chapter HINDOSTANEE to HING of H by The Hobson Jobson Dictionary

plants. The assafœtida, called hang or hing by the natives, grows wild in the sandy or gravelly plains that form the western part of Afghanistan. It is never cultivated, but its peculiar gumresin is collected from the plants on the deserts where they grow. The produce is for the most part exported to Hindustan.” —Bellew, Journal of a Pol. Mission, &c., p. 270.

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