of Western Afghanistan and North-Eastern Persia. 95 



The seeds of Pykus Cydonia, the Quince, yield a gum that is 

 employed by the women and dandies in dressing their hair. 



Gum Arabic — sahhlna. 



Gum Tragacaxth — gablna, hatlra. 



GUM-RESIXS. 



The gum-resins for which this part of the world is most 

 famous are Asafoetida, Galbanum, and Ammoniacum. These 

 are collected from indigenous plants, and exported through 

 Persia or Afghanistan and India to all parts of the world. 

 Their value would be greatly increased if any trouble were 

 taken, or system adopted, for their collection, improvements 

 being made as regards cleanliness in collecting and export- 

 ipg devoid of adulteration. I am of the opinion that the 

 plants yielding these might be cultivated with success, both 

 as regards the cj^uality of the drugs produced and as a profit- 

 able investment, if an experiment were attempted, in the 

 vicinity of Quetta. 



A Mastich is collected, for household use, exuding from 

 the stems of Pistacia veea and Pistacia Teeebinthus, var. 

 MUTICA. A kind of Bdellium is obtained in Baluchistan from 

 Balsamode2s'DEOX Mukul, called gugal, and at Meshad I 

 purchased a highly-scented gum-resin, I myself collecting a 

 similar piece at Sha-Ishmail, to which was given the same 

 names as to an imported Bdellium, viz., niulh-i-azrak, nmJial- 

 i-azrak, hol-Twhi, lui-kuM, probably the gum of a Balsajvio- 

 DENDRON. PiHUS CORIAEIA is cultivated for its leaves, it 

 exudes a gum which is called sumdgh ; this is collected, but 

 in what way employed I know not. 



Imported into Meshad through Persia, for further transit 

 via Afghanistan to Turkistan and India, are Myrrh, the gum- 

 resin of Balsamodexdeon Myeeha, mur, bol. Bdellium, 

 yielded also by a species of Balsamodendeox, mulk-i-azrak, 

 mukal-i-azrak, hdl-kohl, hul-kohi. Olibanum or Frankin- 

 cense, yielded by a species of Boswellia, cilk, ilk, dlk-ul-labdn. 

 True Mastich from the west, the gum-resin of Pistacia 

 Lentiscus, kandur-i-runii ; and Lac, the gum-lac of commerce, 

 Idk, imported from India and Bokhara. 



Gun — \^y<i — guna — i6^^ -^ colour, species, kinds, 

 sorts. 



