144 NOTES ON BELOOCHISTAN PLANTS. 
It is called Kussoor, and its fruits and seeds used as those of the 
preceding species. 
Both these Pistachias yield a resin which is used as a succedaneum 
for Mastic in Beloochistan, Affghanistan, Scinde, and I believe in 
Persia also. It is called in Seinde Saht-i-kundiroo, and in Affghanistan 
is known to the druggists as Sakiz Khinjuk. These trees are noticed 
. by Griffith in his * Affghan Journal’ under the name of Khinjuk, and 
appear to have been regarded by him as species of Xanthowylon (vide 
pp. 351,412). Pistachia Khinjuk has large yellow galls, like an old 
worm-eaten tamarind-pod, and these are generally full of the resin. 
These Dr. Royle mentions (Himal. Botany, p. 178) as Gool-i-Pista, 
and the resin as Aluk-ool-Unbat. Pistachia Cabulica also has red ex- 
_crescences like the comb of a cock, growing from the midrib on the 
underside of the leaf. Kzempfer (Amoenitates, p. 414) mentions these 
trees as growing on the mountain Bunna, seven days’ journey north 
of Bunder Abbas, and also about Shiraz, especially on a mountain 
near Majin one stage from Shiraz. The names he assigns to the trees 
are the same as those used in Beloochistan, allowing for dialect and 
pronunciation; one being called Bun or Wun (in Beloochistan, Gwun), 
and one Kussooddn (in Beloochistan, Kussoor). He mentions also 
` the galls, and the resin, which is called Kundiroon by the Persians, or 
sometimes Sakiz Sheereen (Masticha dulcis), to distinguish it from Oli- 
banum, which is called Kundir or Sakiz Tulkh (Masticha amara) ; and 
from Mastic itself, which is called Kundir Roomee, or Sakiz Roomee 
— (Masticha Turcica). The Khinjuk, by which the tree is known in Aff- 
ghanistan, is a slight alteration of Wun-juk or Gwun-juk. Forskal 
mentions this resin in his * Materia Medica Kahirensis’ (n. 23 among 
the Gums), as ** Kuteerah Ajimee, Humrah, or Kusrooee, è Persia.” 
I cannot say absolutely that Keempfer’s trees are identical with the 
ones just described from Beloochistan, but it is probable, from the 
similarity of the names, and the great resemblance which the Beloo- 
chistan flora has to that of South Persia. Eremurus Persicus, Cou- 
sinia palmatiloba and tenella, Trichodesma Aucheri, Daphne acuminata, 
Tulipa chrysantha, Amygdalus furcatus, Sisymbrium Schimperi, Ono- — 
brychis cornuta, Scabiosa Oliverii, Echinospermum sessiliflorum and 
others, Dufresnia orientalis, Outreya carduiformis, Diarthron carinatum, 
Gentiana Oliverii, Juniperus Pheenicea, Cheiranthus crassicaulis, Ræ- 
meria rheadiflora, Brassica Kotschyi, Pycnocycla Aucheri, Otostegia 
