of Western Afghanistan and North-Eastern Persia, loo 



ruini. This is imported from Turkey into IMeshacl, most of 

 it for exportation. 



Pistacia Terebinthus, Linn.^ var. mutica, Aitch. et Hemsley. 



AXACARDIACE-E. 



This includes Pistacia mutica, Fisch. et Mey ; Pistacia 

 KHINJUK, StoeJcs; Pistacia cabulica, Stocks; han, ivan, 

 wana, gwan, gwana, kanJaJc, kinjak, hunjacl ; the resin, which 

 cannot be ordinarily distinguished from that of Pistacia vera, 

 goes by the same names as those of the latter tree, hunjad, 

 kunjacla, khunjad, khunjada, kinjad, kinjada, loanjad, wanizad, 

 kandur, kundar, kundarud, kunderu, shilm ; the leaves, gosTi- 

 wdra, harg-a-hana ; the oil, roghan-i-kanjak. This is the 

 South and East Persian, Southern Afghan, and the Baluchistan 

 Pistacia ; it extends eastwards to the Kuram Valley, and as 

 far North-east as Gilgit. It has been described under several 

 species, all of which may be united as a variety of Pistacia 

 Teeebinthus. It is the tree of Baluchistan, and hence its 

 name, han, v:an, gxcan ; on Persian territory, and near Herat, 

 its name is altered to kinjad, kunjad. It is usually a small 

 tree about 18 feet in height, and with a bole of from 

 3 to 5 feet in circumference, occurring occasionally in 

 clusters, but usually scattered singly at long distances, on 

 limestone formation. In the districts where it is to be met 

 with trees are so scarce that to cut down one would be almost 

 a sacrilege, hence I can say nothing regarding its value as 

 timber, but its dry branches make excellent fuel. The only 

 locality where I saw what could be called a thicket, or small 

 forest of this tree, was on my march between Piobat-i-turk 

 and Cha-surkh, on the 19th August 1885, and this thicket 

 had been a few days before set on fire by some nomads who 

 had encamped with their flocks in the vicinity. The nuts 

 are much sought after, to be crushed for their oil, which is 

 eaten as a relish with karut (dried oxygal) and bread. The 

 leaves almost without exception are affected by a flat horse- 

 shoe shaped gall, that extends round the margin of the leaf; 

 this gall is so very distinct in form, much resembling the lobe 

 of the ear, that the leaves get their name goshwdra, meaning 

 ear-like, owing to this resemblance ; by these galls alone the 

 leaves of this species may be identified from those of Pistacia 

 VERA. These galls the natives say are of no use, but the 



