15G Brigade-Surgeon J. E. T. Aitchison's Noka on Products 



leaves are valued for dyeing and tanning with. May not the 

 presence of the galls on the leaves be the reason why these 

 leaves are employed, and that the galls are really the active 

 part of the leaf ? The Mastich, or gum-resin of this tree, with 

 that of PiSTACiA VERA, is considered as one, both going by the 

 same names, and being employed in medicine for similar 

 purposes, viz., for dressing wounds and sores, for which uses 

 they are highly valued ; the names mean " the resin for 

 stopping blood," " the remedy for stopping blood," or " for 

 dressing wounds," " the tree-resin." A turpentine is said to 

 be occasionally obtained from the resin, but only by any one 

 specially making it for themselves. The gum-resin is not 

 usually to be found for sale, but it is to be met with in all 

 households, as it is looked upon as an everyday remedy for 

 cuts and bruises. 



Pistacia vera, Linn. Anagardiaceju. 



The indigenous Pistacio tree, that yields the Pistacio Nut, 

 traded with to India. The tree and nut, pista, pistd ; the 

 country where the tree abounds, pistalik ; the galls, hoz- 

 glianj ; the mastich, or gum-resin, kunjiul, kunjada, khunjad, 

 khunjada, kinjad, kinjada, ivanjad, wanizad, kundar, kunda- 

 rud, kunderto, shilm-i-pista, has the same names as the 

 mastich of Pistacia Tekebinthus, var. mutica. It is a small 

 tree, or a large shrub approaching the habit of a tree, with 

 little or no main stem, throwing up numerous branches 

 almost from the root, and averaging in height from 12 to 

 20 feet, and forming when in full foliage symmetrical clumps 

 like great bushes. Early in autumn it begins to loose its 

 leaves, and by November the tree stands naked, devoid of all 

 foliage. The bark is now seen to have a remarkable grey 

 colouring, so much so that at a little distance portions of a 

 forest give the appearance of smoke passing through it, 

 when what is seen is nothing more than the grey colouring 

 of the bark affected by certain beams of light. This tree is 

 found on sandstone formation at an altitude of 3000 feet. In 

 suitable localities it forms large forests. The most celebrated 

 of these occur in the Badghis, near Kala-nao, and at Zulfikar. 

 There are forests in the hills of Khorasan, to the north of 

 Turbat-shaikh-jami. I myself found the tree occurring in 

 small clumps to the south of Bezd, although the natives 



